Yesterday, the parliamentary elections in Greece were marked by a spectacular defeat of the member parties of the "coalition of national unity" - including PASOK and New Democracy - who inflicted the Greek people, with a rare violence, the austerity measures demanded by markets, employers and leadership of the EU. This is an important political turning point that must be heard in Greece and throughout Europe. MORE
A victory that opens a new hope in France and Europe
By electing today May 6, Francois Hollande as president, the people of France has released a disdainful and agressive power that has mistreated citizens and workers for 5 years. I mean the joy of... more
Today Attila Vajnai, member of the EL-council of chairpersons and Leader of the Hungarian workers' party 2006, was stopped and arrested together with around twenty militants.
Their crime? Having demonstrated for the international day of... more
Towards a New Quality of Cooperation of the Forces of Resistance and Democracy,For a Europe of Solidarity;The European Left Party expresses its full commitment to be part of this historic challengeThe necessary response of the Left to the... more
The European Left supports the initiative “Blockupy Frankfurt!” which calls for days of action from 16 - 19 May in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and especially encourages its activists to take part in the international demonstration on Saturday 19th... more
The expropriation announced by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of the shares of the Spanish multinational company REPSOL in its subsidiary YPF, privatized under President Carlos Menem, is a decision of great political importance for... more
The Party of European Left resolutely condemns the Moldovan authorities
We regard closing down a television channel, where it was allowed to openly criticize the authorities and their representatives, as the act of intimidation of all the people... more
The European Left is outraged by contents of the Estonian Security Police
The Estonian Security Police annual review noted that people who opposed the meeting of Waffen-SS soldiers actually attacked thereby Estonia: “these angry attacks against... more
For all women and men who love our country, who were hard hit by Nicolas Sarkozy’s policies over the last five years, which saw France weakened, impoverished and damaged, the results of the first round the presidential election sound like a rallying... more
My first words will be to thank all those who made this meeting possible and especially the workers of the European Left Party, the person beside me in the Presidency of the EL, Maite Mola, who organises all the work of the secretariat and the... more
The European Left kindly invites you to a ALTERNATIVE EUROPEAN SUMMITAgainst austerity, for a social, democratic and ecologic EuropeMarch 30 (Friday, 18.00-22.00) & March 31 (Saturday, 9.00-17.00)at the Confederation of Christian Trade... more
The EL expresses its support for the general strike that the main Spanish Trades Unions, UGT and CCOO have called upon on the 29th of March in response to the regressive labour reform approved by the right wing (Popular Party, PP) government.
For... more
In the midst of a record high unemployment rate and economic recession, Portuguese workers are organising today another general strike against austerity policies, salary and pension cuts and new labour laws. Demonstrations will take place in 37... more
Ten days after the signing of the "budgetary pact", the European treaty which does not have the form to avoid public consultations, the mechanism of foolish and virulent sanctions, set up by Sarkozy and Merkel, is already at work. First... more
