Elections Follow

The elections for the editor of The Journalist, the magazine of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), have caused a surprising stir.

Several key elections are coming up in the NUT teachers’ union. The first is for election of national officers – two vice-presidents, treasurer and examiners of accounts.

The media have been gloating about the plight of the left in the wake of the German federal elections a fortnight ago. "A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of socialism’s slow collapse", announced the New York Times last week.

Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party was re-elected in Sunday’s German elections.

The fascist British National Party (BNP) is attempting to capitalise on the two seats it took in the European elections in June by grabbing as much free publicity as possible. And, outrageously, the BBC is helping it.

The radical left Die Linke party made significant gains in the German state elections last month.

The European Union’s (EU) chief observer described last week’s elections in Afghanistan as "fair" but not "free".

Voting in by-elections for the UCU lecturers’ union national executive committee begins this week.

The beleaguered president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai was facing a national election on Thursday of this week after Socialist Worker went to press.

How did Die Linke fare in the recent European elections?

More than 100,000 people took to the streets of Tehran on Friday of last week in the biggest show of defiance since a crackdown on mass protests against elections widely thought to be rigged.

The Iranian authorities have continued their repression of the popular movement that burst onto the streets following disputed presidential elections.