Portugal has become the latest Eurozone country to be unable to meet its sovereign debt obligations and to be forced into asking the European Union to bail it out.

(Image - The banner says: we, the workers of Parsilon, are starving)

The overthrow of Laurent Gbagbo by French and UN forces assisting the forces of his rival, Alassane Ouattara, is not the end of the agony for the Ivorian population.

(The Communist Left has a long and honourable history in fighting capitalism in all its forms, as well as the distortions of socialism by both Social Democrats and Stalinists.

Review article of “What’s Wrong with using Parliament?” by The Socialist Party [of Great Britain], 24pp July 2010, £1.00.

(The Libyan Crisis - Leaflet of Battaglia Comunista distributed in demonstrations against the war in Italy including that in Rome on April 9)