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Russia: Protests against pension reform show potential for resistance

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Svenja Spunck IN June, the Russian government announced a far-reaching pension “reform”. The main change is to raise the retirement age for women from 55 to 63 and for men from 60 to 65. […]

Germany: far-right riots in Chemnitz show need for new approach

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Svenja Spunck AROUND 5000 right-wingers rampaged through Chemnitz on Monday, August 27. The march was organised by Nazis and extreme nationalist groups and, coming just a day after a riot by a mob of […]

Germany: Right-wing riots in Chemnitz – how can they be stopped?

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Svenja Spunck ABOUT 5000 right-wingers rampaged through Chemnitz on Monday, August 27. The march was organised by Nazis and extreme nationalist groups and, coming just a day after a riot by a mob of […]

Prague 1968: Revolution and counter-revolution

Tuesday, June 12, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Dave Stockton THE YEAR 1968 was one of history’s “mad years” like 1848, 1917-18, 1989 and, most recently, 2011. It was a time when the eruption of revolts in one country quickly stimulated upheavals […]

Italy: For a united front against racism

Monday, June 4, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Dave Stockton AFTER NEARLY three months of negotiations, a coalition government has been formed in Italy between the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League (formerly Lega Nord). Coverage of the government’s difficult birth […]

Spain: Sánchez ousts Rajoy but what next?

Saturday, June 2, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Dave Stockton PEDRO SANCHEZ, leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), is now in the Moncloa Palace as prime minister of Spain. Every progressive person in the Spanish state will be glad to […]

French workers’ and students’ struggle at a turning point

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Marc Lassalle PARIS – After a month of militant but inconclusive strikes and occupations by railway workers and students, activists are organising to relaunch the mobilisation against the government attacks, with a national day […]

French railway workers prepare for decisive struggle

Thursday, March 22, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Marc Lasalle PARIS – Strikes and demonstrations have taken place across France in a day of action called by a united front of most public sector unions. The action has been called in response to […]

Germany: IG Metall pay settlement, workers’ victory or bureaucratic showpiece?

Thursday, March 1, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Frederik Haber THE results of the metal-workers’ pay campaign in Germany have attracted a lot of attention not only at home but internationally. The workers’ union, IG Metall, is widely recognised as the strongest […]

A defeated revolution: Finland 1918

Saturday, January 27, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

The heroic fight of the Finnish workers tends to be unfairly overlooked when the great revolutionary events of 1917-18 are recounted. Jens-Hugo Nyberg tells the story

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