Javier Solana's meeting with Hajj Hassan today was pregnant with significance. Solana, EU's Foreign Policy Chief, was not only meeting with a Lebanese MP, he was also meeting with a "terrorist", by definition of the Obama regime in Washington. Hassan is one of 11 Hezbollah MPs who won seats in Lebanon's... » read this article

Retailers including UK supermarkets may be at risk of prosecution for misleading consumers by selling goods from the Palestinian Territories  under the label "West Bank", lawyers have warned. Fruit, wine and cosmetics originating from illegal Israeli settlements are among the goods that lawyers representing Palestinian interests argue are regularly being wrongly... » read this article

9 June 2009 European social democratic parties were the principal targets of electoral anger in the European elections completed on Sunday. A number of the continent’s most prominent social democratic organisations recorded record low levels of support. At the same time, the low level of voter turnout, just over forty... » read this article

General strike shuts southern Basque Country Thousands of workers took to the streets May 21 in the Basque Country, the most industrialized part of the Spanish state, under the slogan “Against the bosses’ extortion.” They not only took to the streets but they walked off the job. Nearly 53 percent... » read this article

26 May 2009 The international economic crisis is having increasingly dramatic consequences for Europe. According to official European sources, the number of unemployed in the 27 EU member states rose to over 20 million in March. This represents an increase of 4 million compared to one year previously. Further mass... » read this article

Bringing the threat of war to Russia’s borders is having wide-ranging repercussions, argues Eric Walberg As Russian troops marched to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany 8 May, NATO troops — 1,300 of them from 10 member countries and six “partners” — were beginning their month-long Cooperative Longbow/Lancer war “games”... » read this article

9 May 2009 The government’s Equality Bill has been condemned as “socialism in one clause” by Britain’s right wing and a “landmark” in overcoming inequalities by the liberal media and the trade unions. It is neither. Far from promoting equality in any meaningful sense, the bill continues Labour’s reactionary advocacy... » read this article

1 May 2009 The use of force April 10 to recover five French hostages held off the Somali coast, on the yacht, the Tanit, demonstrates the contempt of the Nicolas Sarkozy government for the lives of the French hostages and the Somali pirates, as well as for French and Somali... » read this article

There is a saying in Canada that most reasonable people will agree with. It says: “Don’t blame the messenger (for bad news).”   When Canada Post, a Canadian Government corporation, listed Serbia’s northern province of Vojvodina as a separate country, it must have been just delivering a message from the Canadian... » read this article

Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows. I'm certainly the only one the congressman from Birmingham could name after darkly claiming that there are 17 socialists lurking in the House of Representatives. I doubt that there... » read this article

18 April 2009 Earlier this month, in response to mounting criticism over his handling of the economic crisis, Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero carried out a sudden cabinet restructuring. The most significant casualty was finance minister Pedro Solbes, whom Zapatero appointed shortly after the PSOE’s election... » read this article

18 April 2009 “From foul deeds endless tragedy arises,” the World Socialist Web Site wrote, commenting on the state execution of innocent Brazilian worker, Jean Charles de Menezes, by plainclothes policemen on a London subway train on July 22, 2005. Events have tragically confirmed that warning. In the years since... » read this article

15 April 2009 One week after a series of high profile arrests, little evidence has come to light of plans for the mass terrorist atrocity that supposedly triggered the detentions. Eleven of the 12 people rounded up on April 8—all males aged between 18 and 42 years of age—remain in... » read this article

NATO backs US escalation of war in Central Asia By Chris Marsden 6 April 2009   The NATO 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg, France, and Kehl, Germany, ended with a headline commitment for Europe to provide “up to” 5,000 additional troops for Afghanistan. This was the smallest commitment the European... » read this article

The only voices expressing the will of Europeans and showing a way out of the current crises are in the madding crowds outside the G20, affirms Eric Walberg  Recall the self-satisfied EU celebrations of recent years – the inauguration of the euro and the famous blue Euro passport, the accession... » read this article

Editor's Note: Eric Walberg's whipping analysis of the mounting storm in Europe casts adumbrations of widespread revolution. The rumblings have turned to open riot against entrenched governments and the entire capitalist system. Walberg's "voice crying in the wilderness" would have sounded to most like a deranged street prophet 5 years... » read this article

Support the European election campaign of the Socialist Equality Party! Statement of Socialist Equality Party (Germany) 20 February 2009 The Socialist Equality Party (Partei für Soziale Gleichheit, PSG) is participating with its own candidates in the European election on June 7. Based on the following statement, in the coming weeks... » read this article

Saturday 31 January 2009 Arcellor Mittal workers demonstrate during a protest march in Marseille. Photograph: Jean-paul Pelissier/Reuters France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battlefield. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment figure rises.... » read this article

28 January 2009 Montserrat Martínez Montserrat Martínez Soler is a remarkable woman. She has been at the forefront of the campaign to discover the truth about the mass graves that contain the remains of Republicans and leftists killed by Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and his regime... » read this article

12 January 2009 WSWS  A section of the demonstration in Hyde Park, London In London, tens of thousands of demonstrators, including families and young children, marched in freezing weather from Hyde Park to the Israeli embassy. The BBC put the number of protestors at 50,000, while organizers claimed 100,000 in... » read this article