The Athens meeting of the European Left Party this past weekend was the subject of questions by reporters at a news conference by the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Greece, Aleka Paparigas.

Last October 7 2005, Belgium witnessed a 24-hour general strike the first in more than 12 years. The social democratic trade union federation (Federation Generale du Travail de Belgique or FGTB, with more than 1.3 million members) had called for a general strike because the workers opposed the prolongation of their employment career by 5 years thus limiting the access to early retirement schemes.

Mr Robertson hallucinates over reports that Venezuela is contemplating investigation of the possible benefits of civil nuclear energy and raves over the imminent threat of President Hugo Chavez intimidating a defenceless US with nuclear weapons.

The 2004 elections in Spain pitted incumbent Prime Minister José María Aznar López of the conservative Partido Popular (Popular Party-PP) against the head of the liberal Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Worker’s Socialist Party-PSOE), Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

We have been lied to about the war. But not only that. The party has been manipulated so that it has not been allowed to discuss the issue properly. The Labour leaders have got so nervous of criticism that when I shouted the single word "nonsense"- when the Foreign Secretary sought to paper over the issue with smooth words - party officials sent the bouncers in. Even one word of criticism, it seems, was too much.

Neoliberalism, a strategy of finance capital, was implemented in France at the beginning of the 1980s. Circumstances were that it was not imposed by a Reagan or a Thatcher, but with a French touch by successive “socialist” and right-wing governments. Marked by measures of financial austerity, debt restructuring and anti-inflation measures, the neoliberal turning point was resolutely and definitively adopted by the Socialist Party (PS) controlled government in 1984.

An extraordinary session of the PDS 9th Congress taking place on 17 July, 2005 in Berlin has decided by 74,6% of the delegates elected (over 90% of the delegates present) to change the name of the party to 'The Left Party' (short form: 'The Left.').

There are moments in history where you need a bit of irony to get you though and to keep you going. This week British imperialism unashamedly celebrated the Battle of Trafalgar, their defeat of the French and the consolidation of their empire across the globe. We will have the leader of that same imperialist tradition Tony Blair in a few days time striding across a green lawn lauding the great advance made by the contemporary imperialist powers to help the worlds poor, in the form of the miniscule debt relief.

I am obliged to begin my speech by making an ascertation. The Cypriot parliament, in respecting the commitments undertaken in relation to the ratification date of the Treaty, has moved forward in an orderly way on the procedure despite the many important developments on the Constitutional Treaty.

"There was no plebiscite. No vote. Now we have these games being shoved down our throats." These are the shocked and stunned words of London organizer Katie Andrews, upon finding out that the Olympics will be marching into New Britannia.

The Communist Party of Britain political committee drew attention to the refusal of pro-constitution politicians to accept the clear decisions by French and Dutch voters to reject it. John Haylett told the committee that, "...But both the French and Dutch campaigns highlighted the institutionalisation of neoliberalism across the continent and, in the Netherlands, there was the added factor of resentment at the concentration of power among the larger countries.”

Labour won 55 per cent of the seats with just 36 per cent of the vote at the polls. But with only 61 per cent of eligible Britons voting, it means the Tony Blair has won government with the support of only 22 per cent of the population

The world is on the verge of an historical moment. In the past fifteen years, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, imperialism has launched reckless attacks, with the consideration of absence of a power to stop them.

The ongoing debate over the situation and the future of the Greek economy has recently become more intense.

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