*Panos Garganas, editor of the Greek newspaper Workers Solidarity, spoke to International Socialism about the country’s strike wave The social and political trajectory in Greece seems very different to anywhere else in Europe. There have been two years of near… Continue Reading
The victory for the coalition around Silvio Berlusconi in Italy is much more serious than the Tory gains in Britain’s local elections. It has produced a government in which the hard right have been making the running. The leader of… Continue Reading
The Tories were crowing after May’s local elections and the Crewe & Nantwich parliamentary by-election. With 44 percent of the local election vote, victory in the London mayoral election and a 17.6 percent swing away from Labour to take Crewe… Continue Reading
“Auguries For A ‘Vile’ Decade” was the headline of a Financial Times column by its veteran commentator Samuel Brittan in May.1 He was quoting Michael Saunders, a Citigroup analyst, on the prospects for British capitalism, but generalised the prediction to… Continue Reading