Elections Follow

Lecturers are voting to elect representatives to national officer positions in the UCU and to the union’s national executive committee (NEC) and Scottish executive committee (SEC).

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) met last Saturday to discuss May’s council elections.

Regional elections in Greece last weekend showed the anger at the Pasok government’s austerity programme.

All 1.5 million Unite union members will next week receive election statements from the four candidates for the general secretary election.

Voting has begun in by-elections to the national executive committee of the Unison union.

Brazil’s presidential elections have been forced into a second round as Workers Party (PT) candidate Dilma Rousseff, selected to replace president Lula, fell 3 percent short of the 50 percent needed to win the election outright.

Jerry Hicks won 102 nominations from branches and 35 from workplaces for his rank and file campaign for general secretary of the Unite union.

Protests broke out in Sweden after a fascist party won 20 seats in last week’s election.

The Tea Party movement caused a dramatic upset in last week’s US primary elections—and pushed the Republicans even further to the right.

The Labour party has crashed in a disastrous result in the Australian election. It is the only government since 1931 to face losing power after one term in office.

Elections this week in Rwanda, central Africa, saw much praise for President Paul Kagame.

The ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DJP), whose election last year ended a 50 year dominance by the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), lost control of the upper house of Parliament in last Sunday’s election. The DJP lost because it had gone back on promises to remove US military bases and create a fairer society.