The first fact that emerges from the Italian election results - with the centre-left (Democratic Party or PD) in the majority in the Lower House, a tie in the Senate between PD and Berlusconi’s PDL

These days it doesn’t take a bunch of Marxists to alert workers that world capitalism is in deep crisis.

Throughout much of mainland Europe and in the USA, debt-laden states are axing jobs and services.

... but when one has resigned? They do the same, but under certain conditions

Revolutionaries frequently write about the tragedies of capitalism.

Workers, whether casual, part-time, full-time, unemployed or retired, the vote will not change our conditions, let’s not kid ourselves!

The campaign in Mali is not over but France has already opened a second front in Niger.

If any more evidence were needed of just how confident the ruling class in the UK feels today the so-called bedroom tax is it.