Europe

May Day protests reflect depth of European crisis

Will the traditional May Day workers’ demonstrations in Europe evolve into a gigantic anti-austerity protest this year? Massive protests are…

May 1, 2013

Cypriots strongly resist austerity

Jens Weidmann, the president of the German central bank that has been key to the extreme austerity imposed on Cyprus,…

April 14, 2013

Danish teachers fight back against lockout

Denmark is a small, NATO-member country in relatively prosperous northern Europe. As you can see from the release Workers World…

April 12, 2013

What the Troika did to Cyprus: Robbing depositors & calling it a ‘rescue’

Cyprus is a small island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea with an economy valued at less than 1 percent…

April 1, 2013

Europe: Protests hit austerity

When European Union leaders gathered at their economic summit meeting in Brussels, they were confronted by thousands of protesters who denounced…

March 20, 2013

Sequester means Europe-style austerity plan

Using an obscure, impersonal term — “sequester” — U.S. finance capital is trying to put over European-style, across-the-board budget cuts…

March 7, 2013

EUROPE: Workers battle austerity cuts

Greece: Resistance grows to increasing misery All the major Greek labor organizations — the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE)…

February 24, 2013

Inquiring minds read Marxist’s work

Author and Workers World Party leader Fred Goldstein was at the Inquiring Minds Bookstore in Saugerties, N.Y., in the Hudson…

February 22, 2013

Austerity can’t solve crises of capitalism

Millions of workers across the United States received a rude and unpleasant jolt this January when they discovered that their…

February 8, 2013

Stalingrad, July 1942 to February 1943: The battle that turned back Hitler

Many dramatic events, fiercely fought battles and important victories finally led to the defeat of the Nazi fascists during World…

February 4, 2013