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  • A Dutch activist addresses the new German Left party
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A regional councillor, adviser on employment and social policy to the United Left group of Euro-MPs, and member of the radical left Socialist Party of the Netherlands, this weekend addressed a conference of Germany’s new Left Party (Linkspartei/PDS). This is an edited version of his speech, which covered the experiences of his own highly successful party, the common struggle against the EU’s drive to neo-liberalism, and the role of the trade unions.
    The debate on the social model of Europe (…)

  • European Free Arts demonstration against repression of Free Parties and Teknivals
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    12th november 2005
    European demonstration of Sound Systems in Strasbourg
    Meet at 14:00 (13:00 GMT) in PLace de la Republique in the center of Strasbourg
    We demand the right to exist,
    We demand the end of systematic and unjustified repression against us,
    We demand the condemnation of countries such as the Tcheck republic for brutally repressing our organised events for no justifiable reason,
    We demand the right to be treated as socio-cultural performers; because our events are (…)

  • Belgium hit by second mass strike
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Belgian workers have caused widespread disruption with a 24-hour national strike in protest at government plans to up the retirement age from 58 to 60.
    Few buses and trams were running in most cities, and Charleroi airport, south of Brussels, was shut down.
    Trains were not affected as unions wanted them to keep running to carry people to protests in the capital.
    Tens of thousands of protesters have been marching through Brussels to get the prime minister to reconsider.
    A primary (…)

  • Amsterdam fire kills 11
    27 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A fire broke out early today in a prison complex for drug smugglers and illegal immigrants at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 15, a police spokesman said.
    The identity of the dead was not immediately known. Officials said a number of detainees escaped during the fire.
    A prisoner told the Dutch television station NOS that guards initially did not take prisoners’ warnings of a fire seriously and told them nothing was wrong.
    "They didn’t open the door. They (…)

  • Germany’s new opposition
    26 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By STEFAN NICOLA
    KEHL AM RHEIN, Germany — Never was Germany’s opposition at the same time so diversified and so small — it will have the difficult job of playing the parliamentary watchdog while resisting future coalition flirtations.
    It was a sign how unwelcome the new kid on the block really is: When Germany’s Bundestag, the lower house of parliament assembled for the first time earlier this week, most of Germany’s 614 lawmakers refused to accept a left-wing politician as the deputy (…)

  • U.S. Out in Cold in UNESCO Diversity Pact
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOELLE DIDERICH
    UNESCO’s member nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a pact on protecting cultural diversity after a bitter debate left the United States isolated in opposition to what it sees as a threat to sales of American movies and music.
    The convention - championed by the European Union and Canada - aims to promote ethnic traditions and minority languages and to protect those local cultures from the negative effects of globalization, UNESCO said.
    The United States (…)

  • Yes, we can change EUROPE
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    See below the EL Executive Board motion to the 1st Congress of the Party of the European Left, Athens 2005.
    Introduction 1. building peace 2. building another economic model for a social Europe 3. building participatory and radical democracy 4. building alliances
    INTRODUCTION
    The first Congress of the Party of the European Left is being held at what is truly an "extraordinary" time: today we are faced with the huge challenge of opening a new political and social cycle in Europe. Since (…)

  • German court declares Iraq war violated international law
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just a few weeks ago, a highly significant judicial decision was handed down by the German Federal Administrative Court but barely mentioned in the German media. With careful reasoning, the judges ruled that the assault launched by the United States and its allies against Iraq was a clear war of aggression that violated international law.
    Further, they meticulously demonstrated that the German government, in contrast to its public protestations, had assisted in the aggression against Iraq (…)

  • EU says internet could fall apart
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    – Developing countries demand share of control US says urge to censor underlies calls for reform
    by Richard Wray
    A battle has erupted over who governs the internet, with America demanding to maintain a key role in the network it helped create and other countries demanding more control.
    The European commission is warning that if a deal cannot be reached at a meeting in Tunisia next month the internet will split apart.
    At issue is the role of the US government in overseeing the (…)

  • News Analysis: As Norway Goes: Old Europe Tilts to the Left
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by CONN HALLINAN
    Following Norway’s Sept. 12 elections that saw a green-red coalition turn out a pro-business, anti-immigrant center-right government, the German daily, Die Tageszeitung, mused that “perhaps people in Germany could learn something from this.” It appears they did, and what they learned is likely to be repeated in Italy and France next spring.
    While the U.S. press is spinning the German elections as “inconclusive; no clear winner,” as the New York Times put it, the figures (…)