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Striking at the World Cup

Leftfield has already reported how the World Cup, far from being an economic benefit to South Africa, has in fact been a license for FIFA and international capitalism to loot the country. Now it looks as if the full force of the law might be used to keep the electricity supply to fans’ TVs running, [...]

General strikes all across Europe: Why not here?

Yesterday there were general strikes in Greece and the Basque Country. Last week workers in France and Italy walked out as well. Across Europe the working class is waking up to the threat posed by the attacks of European governments, but in the UK the response has still been quite muted. SSY has been involved [...]

Another Greek general strike demands the right to a pension

Yesterday tens of thousands of Greeks were again in the streets in protest at the IMF/EU imposed package of attacks on the working class. Around 40,000 people demonstrated in Athens as part of another general strike, with thousands more in cities around Greece. The strike was timed to coincide with the debate in parliament over [...]

Meanwhile, in Greece

For the past couple of days Leftfield has been a bit distracted by the minor matter of whether the hated Tories are going to form an unelected government over Scotland. One of the consequences is we haven’t been able to bring you updates about what’s been going down in Greece since Wednesday’s general strike. Just [...]

The uprising in Greece, as it happens

Today the Greek working class is on general strike against their government’s capitulation to the demands of the EU and IMF. Ordinary people in Greece face massive unemployment, huge job losses, pension cuts, savage cuts in public spending, and rises in taxes on consumer spending. The Greek working class is fighting for survival in the [...]

Nepal: General strike to bring down the government

After a huge May Day rally on Saturday, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) launched a massive general strike aimed at forcing the resignation of the government. Although Maoist led, the strike is supported by the majority of workers, and so far has been really successful. Strikers have surrounded the Prime Minister’s residence. They have [...]

The EU and IMF declare war on Greece

The Greek government has agreed to a programme of loans of billions of Euros from the EU and IMF. This money comes with an incredible list of demands, that will plunge the standard of living for the Greek people. Many people are drawing direct comparisons between the Greek government of 1941, which surrendered to the [...]

Scots? Scousers? They all sound the same to me

Where would you say the man in the above clip comes from? It doesn’t take a dialectologist to correctly guess he probably grew up in the Liverpool area. He’s Len McCluskey, assistant general secretary of the UNITE union, and the union official currently responsible for leading the BA cabin crew strike. With the Tories desperate [...]

Greeks explain why they're on strike

As Leftfield reported a couple of days ago, Greece right now is the frontline of the European wide assault on the working class. The bankers who fucked up the economy royally are now determined to make ordinary people pay through wage cuts, job losses and slashing public spending. In Greece, the government is trying to [...]

Europe goes mental

When what is possibly the worst economic crisis since the 30′s got going in 2008, a lot of people looked back into history. They pointed out that when the Wall Street Crash happened in 1929, it took a couple of years before we really began to see political implications, like the rise of Hitler or [...]