Austria
Student protests continue in Austria
By Marius Heuser, November 18, 2009
Austrian students have occupied lecture halls at universities throughout the country to protest against deteriorating conditions and increasing commercialism in the country’s education system.
Student protests in Austria
By Markus Salzmann and Johannes Stern, November 7, 2009
Students in Austria are engaging in strikes and protest actions with the central demand: “More money for education, not the banks and corporations.”
Social Democrats suffer historical defeat in Upper Austria
By Markus Salzmann, October 3, 2009
As in neighbouring Germany, the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) suffered a historic defeat in recent state elections, receiving just 24.5 percent of the votes cast, its worst showing since 194...
Austria: Collapse for Social Democrats in Vorarlberg state election
By Markus Salzmann, September 26, 2009
In the election in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg last Sunday the Socialist Party (SPÖ) obtained its worst result in the history of the post-war Austrian Second Republic.
Australia: Global institutions tell Rudd government to cut spending
By Mike Head, July 2, 2009
Warning of continuing “weak” and “fragile” conditions in the Australian and world economy, global financial institutions have insisted that the Rudd government must make deep spending cuts in ...
Twenty years after the collapse of Stalinism
European politicians stand reality on its head at Vienna gathering
By Markus Salzmann, June 5, 2009
Just days before the European elections June 7, representatives from politics and business met in Vienna to celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe.
Austria: Socialist Party in free-fall in regional elections
By Markus Salzmann, March 7, 2009
Extreme-right parties are exploiting the growing political vacuum in Austria. Last weekend’s regional elections ended in a debacle for the social-democratic Austrian Socialist Party (SPÖ).
Austrian right-wing politician Jörg Haider dies in car crash
By Markus Salzmann, October 16, 2008
Jörg Haider, the governor of the Austrian province of Carinthia and chairman of the extreme right Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) died in a car accident in Klagenfurt in the early hours of ...
Austrian elections: rightist forces benefit from decline of social democracy
By Markus Salzmann, October 3, 2008
The so-called People’s Parties were given a drubbing in the elections to the Austrian parliament held last weekend, with the conservative People’s Party and the Social Democrats both recei...
Austria: End of the grand coalition
By Markus Salzmann, July 18, 2008
Last week, the vice-chancellor and leader of the conservative People’s Party, William Molterer, announced his party would no longer be collaborating with its coalition partners—the Austria...
Austrian grand coalition in crisis
By Markus Salzmann, March 12, 2008
Following months of conflict in the Austrian government coalition, a premature end of the coalition between the Social Democrat Party (SPÖ) and the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) s...
ISSE to hold first meeting in Vienna
By our correspondent, June 15, 2007
On Sunday, June 17, the International Students for Social Equality (ISSE) is holding its first-ever meeting in the Austrian capital of Vienna. The meeting offers Austrian readers of the World Socialis...
