The Scottish TUC welcomed a new economic report by the Communist Party of Britain Scottish committee on Friday as an important contribution to the debate on enhancing democratic control of the economy.

There can no longer be any doubt about it: The government has chosen to fight the trade unions in order to adopt, come what may, its destructive labor plans.

The intensity of the physical assault by police on the anti-war demonstrators in London on Sunday evening should not really have surprised anybody, although it has shocked a considerable number.

The new Russian President Medvedev traveled to China on his first visit abroad. Beyond the new announced cooperation agreements, which confirm the forward momentum of the commercial relations between China and Russia, the two countries also signed a joint statement on some important international issues.

Despite the all the resources and political bullying and blackmail from both the the Irish and the EU establishments and a hostile mass media they overcame all of them and secured a victory for national democracy not just for Ireland but for all the peoples of EU.

The blockade against Cuba, which was initiated some 40 years ago by the U.S., suffered a major setback this week as European Union leaders announced their intention to end their sanctions against the island country.

Left-wing parties, trade unions and social organizations in France will hold demonstrations across that country to protest the upcoming visit of US President George W. Bush.

The people of Ireland go to the polls this week to vote on the acceptance or otherwise of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty in a referendum required by the country's constitution. The people of Britain, in stark contrast, do not.

The use of faulty nuclear fuel from the US in Ukrainian electronuclear plants is a risk, explained an expert commenting on the agreement of US Westinghouse and Ukraine's nationally owned Energoatom.

In his newest book, Blows Against Empire, author Gerald Horne looks at U.S. imperialism’s growing crisis with another economic “superpower,” the increasingly united Europe Union.

The European Court of Justice ruling that a Polish building subcontractor can undercut agreed industrial wage rates in Germany wasn't a surprise, given the court's previous form over last December's Viking and Laval cases.

When trying to understand the geopolitical reality of Spain, one must never forget the two military bases the United States actively maintains in the country. One of which currently serves as the main transit point between the United States, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Demutualization - in essence, a form of privatization - lay at the heart of Northern Rock's problems. If it had continued as a building society, it could never have overstretched itself in the way that it did as a private bank.

Though the president’s party, the union for the popular majority (UMP), attempted to minimize the significance of the results at first, it is now clear that the blow has struck home.

But for the demutualisation of Northern Rock, their jobs would have remained secure, providing mortgages on the basis of secure income rather than opting for higher profits on the basis of an ultimately unsustainable practice of borrowing short and lending long.

Despite the continued efforts by the police authorities to denigrate and underestimate the size of the anti-war movement in Britain, it has become clear that somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 people turned out at the weekend to oppose Britain's continued involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan

Another Saint Patrick's Day is here, with its tacky kegs of green beer, leprechauns, lucky charms, fake plastic hats and all imaginable variety of gaudy faux-Irish...um..."charm."

Attached to the most clandestine US reactionary policies, the French organization ‘Reporters without Borders’ (RSF) announced with a great fanfare its “Online Free Expression Day,” that was supposedly supported by UNESCO.

MADRID, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero claimed victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections.

For the third time in the last few weeks, Die Linke (the Left, as the new party is called) has made an entrance into the Parliament of one of Germany’s western "Länder".