Cyprus Follow

Imperialist states protect soldiers who commit crimes against women

‘British bases out of Cyprus’

Cypriot socialist speaks out

In this piece, we publish forgotten pieces from the Cypriot Worker

Protesters demanded closure of the base

Far right groups attacked shops and homes and beat up people

New research from the right wing Institute of Economic Affairs shows 67 percent of young people are rejecting capitalism in favour of socialism.

Farmers in India stepped up their battle with the government last week with blockades of railway tracks.

Finally graduating from university after three years is an overwhelming feeling.

With Turkey and Greece the closest to conflict than they have been in years Nick Clark explains why Cyprus has been such a focus point for imperialist powers, especially Britain

The sexist treatment carried out by the police and justice systems toward women alleging rape was highlighted in a recent horrifying case in Cyprus

A series of general strikes in Northern Cyprus are turning into a revolt against the government following a fatal road accident last month.

David Cameron is refusing to help refugees on British territory in Cyprus, writes Dave Sewell

Many commentators argue that the Greek left government headed by Syriza is heading towards the moment of truth in its confrontation with the European Union.

More than 5,000 bank workers in southern Cyprus were set to strike on Thursday of this week, and lead a mass protest outside parliament while it decides the future of their pensions.

At the time of writing it is still unclear whether Cyprus's banks will finally re-open. What has taken place on this small island state seems part of a by now familiar pattern of financial speculation, real estate boom and resulting collapse of a banking sector - one that had ballooned to around eight times the size of the economy it was attached to.

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”.

The bank deal imposed to keep Southern Cyprus in the eurozone will bring job losses, privatisation and financial ruin to ordinary people.

People in southern Cyprus woke last Saturday to news that money would be lifted from their bank accounts to pay for a bailout of the country’s two biggest banks.

Songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis mixes traditional Cypriot and Greek music with classical and rock elements.

A defeat for Greek Cypriot nationalism and neoliberalism Dimitris Christofias won the presidential runoff in Southern Cyprus on Sunday 24 February. He took 53 percent of the vote in an unprecedented victory for the island’s Communist AKEL party, beating the conservative Yiannis Kasoulides, who polled 46 percent.

Why did Greek Cypriots reject the UN plan to reunite the island? Phaedon Vassiliades of Workers' Democracy looks beyond the accusation of nationalism.

Political turmoil was the outcome of elections in the Turkish northern part of Cyprus last month.

"IRAQ: THE New War". That headline in the prestigious New York Review of Books captures the scale of the fighting that continues in Iraq. The word occupation does not adequately describe what is happening. There is a new phase in this war that we were assured was won when Western television stations took carefully choreographed shots of the fall of statues to Saddam Hussein five months ago. It is like the colonial wars conducted in the 1950s by the British army in Kenya, Malaysia, Aden and Cyprus, and by France in Algeria.