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While capitalism goes into crisis, resulting in a rise in unemployment and more ferocious attacks on the living standard and rights of working class people, racism is on the rise. In many countries in Europe racist populist politicians and outspoken neo-fascist forces is doing what they can to direct angriness and frustration over the system that creates poverty, oppression, environmental disasters and never ending wars for their own purposes. Instead of blaming the capitalist system, they blame refugees and immigrants for the crisis.

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.

Workers solidarity, stop the attacks on youth, resistance to fascism – REVOLUTION is fighting on all fronts in Britain!

The last month hasn’t been a quiet one for REVOLUTION in the UK, despite school, college and university students coming to the end of their exams and waiting for the summer holidays.

Interested at what sections of REVOLUTION have been doing in last period? You can now read reports of campaigning work of our sections since May here... [AT] [CZ] [DE] [UK] [SE]

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.

Statement of the REVOLUTION International Council, June 2008

Different representatives of the ruling class of Israel and the US have increased pressure against Iran again. It was Hillary Clinton who started with saying that she would eliminate Iran if it would attack Israel. The designated candidate for the US presidential elections, Barack Obama, followed suit and made clear with his speech in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that he is a “friend of Israel”. In this speech he also emphasised that “there is no greater threat to Israel – or to the peace and stability of the region – than Iran” and that his “goal will be to eliminate this threat”.

Here in Stockholm there will be a demonstration of the fascists on the 6th of june, swedens "national day". Revolution in Stockholm has joined the network against racism, where we have taken a strong position as a group taking initiatives in trying to draw in other forces to widen the united front. As a result mainly from our initiatives, other groups such as the CWI and the Young Left is now planning to join in the demo. In this work we gained the respect of other forces in the network (mainly anarchists).

At a national level we have:
- Taken part of the Left Party May day arrangement in Stockholm which gathered around 8000 people. We had a very successful mobilisation and one of the most lively blocks with comrades from different parts of the country and new young contacts. http://revolutionsweden.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/revolutionart-forsta-ma...