Government hopes of EU help are fading as Greece’s crisis continues, writes Dave Sewell
Headlines in France have focused for several weeks on home secretary Manuel Valls’s efforts at banning antisemitic comedian Dieudonné.
Foreign ministers from governments that back sections of the Syrian opposition have intervened to ensure their allies are part of plans for a post-Assad Syria.
Basque Country; South Africa; Central African Republic; Syria
Three more fascist MPs in Greece’s Golden Dawn party have been jailed to await trial.
Egyptians were voting in a referendum on a new constitution as Socialist Worker went to press.
Sylvestre Jaffard asks if the protests against governments of the centre left in Italy and France are the shape of things to come
The military regime in Egypt is carrying out a serious crackdown on socialists and activists who played leading roles in the 2011 revolution. When the state has attacked revolutionaries in the past international solidarity has made a difference. Such solidarity is vital today.
The US is sending advanced weapons to the Iraqi government to help crush a growing rebellion in Anbar province in the west of the country. Anbar was a centre of the resistance against the 2003-2011 US occupation.
South Africa’s largest union withdrew electoral support for the governing African National Congress (ANC) in a historic move at a special conference last month. It went on to call for a new workers’ party to be set up.
Elections in Bangladesh this week have plunged the country deeper into turmoil.
Up to 100,000 rail workers in South Korea struck for three weeks last month against government plans for running a new bullet train service.
