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Europe and the Greek contagion

The crisis in Greece is bound up with the global capitalist downturn. Instead of a nationalist response there could be an international fightback, writes James Turley After eight months of increasingly fervid speculation, the European Union has finalised a bail-out package for struggling Eurozone economies. And for all the strenuous denials from Berlin and Brussels that such ...

Left should not celebrate

The Lisbon Treaty has hit the buffers after rejection by the Irish electorate. CS member James Turley outlines an internationalist approach to the European Union The European bourgeoisie is reeling after the decisive rejection of the Treaty of Lisbon, a putative replacement for the scuppered EU constitution, by the Irish electorate. And, of course, the left ...