Southern Europe
French government’s emergency budget deepens social divide
By Pierre Mabut, December 9, 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a raft of economic measures December 4 amounting to €26 billion (US$33 billion) as part of an effort to refloat the economy in 2009 in the face of the worl...
France: Thousands demonstrate against postal service privatisation
By Olivier Laurent and Antoine Lerougetel, November 26, 2008
Demonstrations took place in towns across France on Saturday against the planned privatization of the postal service.
France: Hundreds of thousands strike and march against education cuts
By our reporters, November 22, 2008
Half of all France’s teachers, some 400,000 throughout the national school system, struck and up to 200,000 took to the streets in a hundred cities last Thursday in the fourth day of action in educa...
Spain: Judge Garzón abandons investigation into Franco-era crimes
By Paul Mitchell, November 22, 2008
Judge Baltasar Garzón has decided to abandon his investigation into the executions and repression carried out by the fascist regime of General Francisco Franco after protests from right-wing politici...
Spanish Stalinist leader Carrillo opposes Garzón indictment
By Paul Bond, November 14, 2008
Santiago Carrillo, the 93-year-old former general secretary of the Stalinist Communist Party of Spain (PCE), has publicly criticised moves by Judge Baltasar Garzón for an investigation of the crimes ...
Spain: Supreme Court halts investigation into Franco-era crimes
By Paul Stuart and Paul Mitchell, November 13, 2008
Spain’s Supreme Court has halted the investigation begun by Judge Baltasar Garzón into the executions and repression carried out by the fascist regime of General Francisco Franco.
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November 7, 2008
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Spain: What the Garzon indictment states about the crimes of the Franco era
By Paul Mitchell, November 5, 2008
Judge Baltasar Garzon has launched an investigation into the thousands of mass graves of the victims of the Franco scattered across Spain. To date, not a single person has been prosecuted for the crim...
Mass strike in Italy against Berlusconi government
By Harvey Thompson, October 24, 2008
A general strike in Italy last Friday protested low wages and attacks on the working population by the Berlusconi government.
General strike in Greece amid deepening financial crisis
By Harvey Thompson, October 23, 2008
A 24-hour general strike was staged Tuesday, October 21, across Greece, grinding the country’s major infrastructure to a halt. The strike involved workers in air traffic, urban transport and public ...
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