Left Bloc
Portugal: Boost for left as Left Bloc doubles its representation
A balance sheet of the European elections
By François Sabado
Videos: European revolutionaries discuss left unity experiences
The British socialist newspaper Socialist Resistance on June 28, 2008, sponsored a fascinating day of discussion and debate on building broad left parties across Euro
London, June 28, 2008: Socialist Resistance Day School on broad left parties
You can download the flyer for the Socialist Resistance day school on the European experience of broad parties here. We will have speakers from the Communist Party, the Greens, the LCR, Left Bloc and the Dutch Socialist Party plus your usual favourites.
Left regroupment: issues and prospects
The left in Britain has been better at coming apart than coming together in the last year. Gregor Gall, a member of the Scottish Socialist Party, examines the prospects for left regroupment in Britain and Scotland, and looks to Europe to see if there are lessons to learn.
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Portugal: Where is the Left Bloc going?
On June 2-3, 2007 the Fifth National Convention of the Left Bloc took place in Lisbon.
Another Europe is possible! No to the multinationals' constitution!
This statement was issued by a meeting of the European Anti-Capitalist Left on December 5, 2004.
European Union governments are trying to impose a constitution designed behind closed doors on 450 million people. This socalled constitutional treaty has taken the place of a constituent process based on a mandate coming out of open democratic debates and sovereignty of the peoples of Europe.
This constitution is dangerous.
It consecrates the absolute primacy of the "free market". It legally forbids any infringement of private property and market relations. It refuses to give any legal status to social gains won on a national level through a century and a half of workers' struggles.