Reports

12 November

More than 100.000 school students in more than 40 cities and towns all over the country took the streets to protest against the neo-liberal attacks on education launched by the government and the bosses.

REVOLUTION has new section in the USA. Their website is here.

We wish comrades from USA many successes in revolutionary work.

Once again 2 months where we fought for Revolution. What happened in that time?

We, young revolutionaries, were witnesses of the birth of new “Linke” (Left).

“Linke” out now!

What?

Yes! Because the SPÖ, the social democrats in Austria, the official labour party, is going through a crisis. Since decades they do not fight any more for the workers, but for their own privileges in capitalism. More and more workers recognise that. The number of SPÖ-members today is the lowest since 1918.

Between 17 and 21 September, the fifth edition of the European Social Forum (ESF) was held in the city of Malmö in the Swedish south. Gathered were political parties, trade union activists, women organizations, an abundance of left wing groups, depoliticized NGOs, environmentalists, etc. All in all the forum gathered far less than expected and we see a negative develepement towards a forum for "the already convinced".

Campaign against US military base planned to be build in Czech republic has been main focus of activities of Czech REVO for two years. Here we bring you brief summary of this struggle, which is now, with the signing of the treaty on US radar base, going to get new dimensions.

The 12 of May many hot shot politicians celebrated the 60 year anniversary of the Israeli occupation of Palestine by eating dinner at a luxury restaurant in Stockholm. Except many openly bourgeois politicians, Mona Sahlin, the leader of SAP, the Swedish Social Democratic Worker's Party, attended, despite critique from within the party. Members from Revolution where outside the restaurant together with around 100 activists, mainly anarchists. The Police responded unusually harsh and detained many of us, even though there had been no violence from our side.

The end of May and June was in Czech republic filled with trade-union protests against neoliberal reforms of the government. There was series of four demonstrations, each one targeting concrete reform, that culminated in one-hour general strike. In the protests, obstructing role of trade-union bureaucracy was quite clearly expressed, when they organised demonstrations on working day in such time that for many workers it was not possible to participate and in organising only one-hour strike.

The main issue on which REVOLUTION-Germany has been active since the first of May was the rising school-strike movement which is taking place in Germany at the moment.

In May the government decided a health care reform, which is going to come into effect in 2010. Lots of medics went on strike. On the 11th of July there was a demonstration of medics against the health care reform. REVOLUTION and LSR (League of the Socialist Revolution, Austria's Section of the League for the Fifth International) collected contributions for a militant health-labour union in Sri Lanka. The Socialist Party of Sri Lanka is in contact with the LFI and we tried to show our solidarity with our Asian comrades by supporting this activity.