9 December was the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Maastricht agreement which eventually paved the way for the single currency.

From 7pm on Thursday until 7am on Saturday over 2,500 Unilever workers at various sites from Port Sunlight on Merseyside to Purfleet in Essex manned picket lines as they mounted the first ever all-

In 90 countries round the world the “Occupy” and “Indignados” movements have posed the question. Things cannot go on as before. We need an alternative to capitalism.

While the government’s arbitrary changes mean that everyone has to work longer to get a state pension, while the capitalist crisis is wiping out private pensions, when every day brings news of more

Listen to the news on any day and there is no shortage of crisis talk. The bulletins tell us that we are in a mess for many reasons.

Workfare - the idea that claimants should work for their benefits now that capitalist economic crisis and corporate moves to exploit Far Eastern cheap labour has thrown them on the dole - was impor

There’s one thing about the present crisis: the idea that there must be a better alternative capitalism is gaining ground.

(The following articles are from Battaglia Comunista with an update from Internationalist Notes - US)