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Campaigners from the Czech Republic told the conference about the growing unease over the "new cold war" in central Europe.

Delegates from Greece, Italy and Poland all reported that their governments were responding to the anti‑war movement with authoritarian measures.

The revolutionary upsurge in Europe during and after the First World War threw the trade union movement across the continent into a profound upheaval.

Gordon Brown has made it clear there will be no referendum on the European Union (EU) reform treaty.

Demonstrators will gather in Lisbon this Thursday to protest outside the European Union (EU) summit being held in the Portuguese capital.

In August 1914 the First World War broke out in Europe. Lenin, the Russian Bolshevik leader, had long argued that a war could create a revolutionary situation in which workers would rise up against the barbarism.

A major battle is brewing in Europe’s biggest local authority.

The TUC took a stand against the neoliberal agenda in Europe last week and New Labour’s role in the race to the bottom by calling for a referendum on the latest European Union (EU) treaty.

Thousands of eastern European workers are being brutally exploited at work, according to the TUC.

Unions call for EU treaty vote Opposition to the neoliberal agenda has pushed trade unions into calling for a referendum on the European "reform treaty" – a rehash of the European Constitution – despite attempts by TUC leaders to get them to soften their position.

One of the few genuinely democratic moments of the past few years came in May and June 2005, when the European Constitution was thrown out by referendums in France and the Netherlands.

12.08 East of Bucharestdirected by Corneliu Porumboiuout now How deep were the Eastern European revolutions of 1989 against the Stalinist dictatorships? That’s the question asked in 12.08 East Of Bucharest, a new film by director/writer Corneliu Porumboiu.