Blair’s critics should not dismiss the significant policy achievements of the past ten years, notably on two issues that are currently being debated in the United States – the national minimum wage and union recognition.

Across Europe a major conflict is raging over the future of public services. On the one hand are those who believe that privatization and liberalization is the only way to meet the needs of consumers, improve the efficiency of public finances and create a common European market allowing enterprises, professionals and workers to move freely.

On 21 May, legislation paving the way for full devolution of policing and justice issues and the ending of no-jury Diplock courts completed its parliamentary stages and now awaits royal assent.

“The right has apologized for being right-wing for too long”, Nicolas Sarkozy explained over and over again to the newly seduced UMP militants who joined the party as soon as he took it over.

In Wales, some 3,700 electors – one voter in every 200 - supported the Communist Party of Britain regional lists despite the party's limited campaigning in many areas where it has little or no organization.

So today we are entering a political context that is particularly serious and disturbing. Nicolas Sarkozy feels he can legitimately promote an ultraliberal agenda that is anti-union, generous to the rich, stigmatizing the poor, the unemployed, immigrants.

In the third consecutive defeat for the French left in a presidential election, NICOLAS SARKOZY has been chosen to lead France with a comfortable 53.06% of the vote, as the pre-election opinion polls had predicted.

The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest US military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen.

The American parts maker wants to eliminate RTT of its workers in the Ardennes and to freeze their salaries for three years to “guarantee the continued existence of the site.”

The decision to establish an Executive in the North of Ireland is a big step forward in the building of peace and reconciliation.

There are are only seven days to the election. Everything is still possible. The network of militants that is spreading out throughout the country can still avoid all the traps and create the conditions of a new hope.

Twelve years after Francois Mitterrand, France's first, and to date only Socialist president, left office, the political landscape in both the presidential palace and the National Assembly has moved gloomily toward right-wing social and economic policies.

AKEL rejects and condemns the threats being launched against the Republic of Cyprus by Turkey and the leadership of the Turkish Cypriot community in relation to the exploration for the excavation of petrol in the sea-coast region of Cyprus.

The UNICEF report on children’s well-being, the Oliver James study on mental health in modern society and the Bernard Matthews mountain of dead turkeys all point to the same conclusion – monopoly capitalism is making many of us more, stressed, ill or mad.

After the government of the Republic of Cyprus signed last week an agreement with Lebanon for the facilitation of future oil and gas exploration in the region, following the last year's agreement with Egypt, Turkey and the leadership of the Turkish Cypriot community reacted by launching threats.

The Communists have been the only parliamentary political force in the Czech Republic which, already before the parliamentary elections, highlighted the real danger of a US military base or US radar station being set up at our territory.

In a development that further exposes the EU as a tool of big business, the European Court of Justice will effectively decide later this year whether workers within the European Union have a fundamental right to strike.

New, repressive measures will soon be implemented in the European Union in the name of “combating terrorism.” Critics say the measures are actually aimed at nipping a growing European left-wing radicalism in the bud.

'Have you learnt nothing from your own history? You're doing what Hitler did - he began by banning the Communists', RMT rail union general secretary Bob Crow told Czech embassy officials in London yesterday.

The Queen’s Speech may have promised action to provide ‘strong, secure and stable communities’, but its proposals to attack civil liberties and privatising public services will do exactly the opposite, Emily Mann told the Communist Party of Britain’s executive committee last month.