Right winger Tony Abbott won Australia’s election last week. Rupert Murdoch’s papers enthusiastically backed the liberal party leader.
The hated former dictator Hosni Mubarak has been released from prison, though he will remain under house arrest and faces charges of corruption and killing protesters. The Revolutionary Socialists held a demonstration.
The crisis in Greece was back at the centre of European politics last week—just as workers began a new round of mass strikes.
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A Cairo court announced it may be ready to release the ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak from prison this week.
Hatem Tallima, a Revolutionary Socialist in Cairo, speaks to Judith Orr
The Revolutionary Socialists have issued a letter to their supporters analysing the situation since the recent military crackdown. It is written for activists in Egypt, but because it explains many of the complexities of what has been happening we are reproducing a translation
Appalling conditions and the racist brutality of police guards in Greece’s migrant camps has united immigrants to defend themselves in any way they can, writes Dave Sewell
Flag-waving loyalists took to the streets in Northern Ireland last week. Cops fired 26 plastic bullets and used water cannon at one Unionist protest on Thursday.
Apartheid-style new asylum rules in some Swiss towns will bar refugees from specified public places.
Sit-ins in support of ex-president Mohamed Mursi continue and a crackdown on workers have sparked solidarity, says Anne Alexander
Three British warships are sailing for Gibraltar on “routine” exercises apparently unrelated to the current tension between the British and Spanish governments.
