Austerity Follow

Ten more years of austerity, cuts and mass poverty is all the Tories and Labour can promise.  Chancellor George Osborne is set to announce his latest assault this week. 

Greece’s government was on the verge of collapse as Socialist Worker went to press, writes Panos Garganas

A mass meeting of workers at Greek state broadcaster ERT voted to continue working in occupation on Tuesday of this week.

The ERT workers have been bombarded with messages of support from media organisations around the world.

The government is bringing constant pain to working class people. The number of people in absolute poverty in Britain rose by nearly a million in just one year. Some 300,000 of these were children.

 

Protest in Italy, carnage in Iraq, shortages in Venezuela

Thousands of high school teachers in Greece could face arrest if they strike during exams from Friday of this week.

The Tories are ripping up the lives of working class women, according to a new report by the Fawcett Society, writes Judith Orr

The crisis in Cyprus is dominating headlines worldwide and in Greece. The mainstream media claims that what is at stake is reform of an island economy that relies on “money laundering for the Russian oligarchs”.

Some 250,000 civil service workers were set to strike on Wednesday of this week to defend their pay, pensions and conditions.

The Tories have started a bizarre argument amongst themselves.