Turkey’s bid to join the European Union could suffer by its refusal to admit the genocide of its Armenian Christian population nearly a century ago.

The Porsche family wants to sack 3,700 blue-collar and 500 white-collar workers in VW-Forest (Brussels). Among with them, around 8,000 wage-earners from the subcontracting factories nearby would also lose their jobs.

The assault on the KSM is an assault on democracy, an assault on all of those who seek to join together to create a better world, and to defeat the ideologues of capitalism and extremism who have taken over greater portions of the world since the fall of the Soviet Union.

As is well known, Bosnia and Herzegovina have passed through civil war and an explosion of nationalism, which has caused not only the devastation of economic resources, but also the division of the working class along ethnic lines.

A meeting between union representatives and Education Minister Marietta Giannakou yesterday failed to find the formula to end a five-week teachers’ strike as hopes for an immediate end to the standoff faded.

The United States has already on several occasions during these last 10 years used the United Nations to facilitate their interventions and their aggressions against sovereign states on all the continents without any exception, from Somalia and to Lebanon, while passing by Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq.

These days Hungary is characterized by turbulent political events. On Sunday, September 17 a confidential speech by Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany was leaked and published on the Internet. It was a speech made by the Prime Minister in a meeting with the parliamentary members of the Hungarian Socialist Party in May 2006.

Britain's Communists are calling for a massive turn-out on September 23 in Manchester, on the eve of the Labour Party conference, to demonstrate against military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq and against any attack on Iran.

The Party's press statement comes as British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces increasing opposition to his policies, and his close ties to President Bush from within the Labour Party.

The Young Communist League (YCL) of Britain concluded its 43rd Congress this past weekend. The outgoing general secretary of the Young Communist League, Gawain Little, told delegates at weekend that the organisation had come on "in great leaps and bounds."

OVER 100,000 people took to the streets of London on Saturday to demand an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.

LONDON -- The government is out of step with public opinion over the need to bring about an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon and to end the suffering of the Lebanese people.

TONY Blair continues to parrot platitudes about deeply regretting "the loss of innocent life in the Lebanon and Israel" while backing the US-Israeli battle plan.

The permanent-war doctrine is the means by which the present administration in the US intends to secure its unipolar domination of the world. However, contrary to what this doctrine proposes, a single world power cannot impose a solution to conflicts and secure stability by the use of force.

The solution of the Cyprus problem must be viable and that it should be lasting. In order for the solution of the Cyprus problem to be viable, it must be workable and as much as it is possible more just.

We might not particularly like it, but we do live in interesting political times. In a time-frame of several months or years big changes take place. What used to take tens of years now seems to be compressed in a much tighter period.

Who was Slobodan Milosevic and what did he stand for? Milosevic began his political rise in 1984, when he was elected president of the City Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia in Belgrade.

On May 27, the attempt to organize the first Gay Pride march in Moscow was cut short.  Banned by the Moscow authorities, the demonstration was marred by about a hundred arrests, while skinheads attacked dozens of activists with shouts of "Moscow is not Sodom!"

The General Secretary of the CC of AKEL Demetris Christofias delivered his speech outside the building of the Central Committee of the Party where the members, voters and supporters of the Party had gathered for the announcement of the results of the Parliamentary Elections.

I want to conclude by saying that the Cyprus problem is a complex, intricate and I would say difficult problem as it has developed after the referenda. It is not possible from one day to the next to promote its course for a solution.

After the victory of the Union's center-left coalition in Italy of which Rifondazione is a part with its remarkable result, as we told you in our last information, we will support a government with Romano Prodi as a prime minister.