Out of the EU, for a Socialist Austria! :Deputy Chairman of the Party of Labour of Austria Even a quarter of a century after the last World Savings Day of the schilling era, nostalgia for Austria’s former currency remains widespread, as sociologist Klaus Kraemer explained to Austria’s public broadcaster ORF on Saturday. But this sentiment reflects more than nostalgic memories: it also expresses legitimate concerns about the economic future. And hardly without reason. The capitalist crisis, high inflation, rising rents, relentless attacks on the welfare state and years of declining wages have left their mark on people’s lives. On the contrary, what they once regarded as secure is being systematically dismantled, piece by piece, in the interests of capital. Neither a return to the schilling nor simply withdrawing from the European Union can resolve these problems. What is needed is the organized economic and political struggle of the working class against the dictatorship of the banks and corporations.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/11/out-of-eu-for-socialist-austria.htmlWorkers of the World, Invest: the corporate adventures of The Canary2026 was not the first time the Canary experienced turmoil. It is a left project after all. Historically, it faced significant advertising revenue issues due to a boycott campaign organised by a group called Stop Funding Fake News. In 2022, it experienced an internal takeover by staff and was turned into a worker co-op. In the March 2025 text, the Canary Workers Coop describing the takeover as a “workers’ revolution”, shared some details of their investigation into the former Canary management. “Even by the standards of corporate capitalist criminals, the Canary finances and systems were a mess. Our latest set of official accounts were a veritable clusterfuck of irregularities.”, the workers said. Further, the workers describe the practice of the management paying themselves dividends and how this was beneficial to them in terms of easing their personal tax burden as well as a tool to hide the disparities between the regular worker pay and the pay of the management team. Sadly, the workers’ revolution at the Canary appears to be short-lived, for only a few months after the March 2025 text, the Canary quietly went back to
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