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Polish left-wing party Razem (Together) International Office member Zofia Malisz speaks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about the party’s history, Polish politics and Razem’s views on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Could you tell us about Razem’s history and politics?
Razem was formed in 2015 by (...)
The petition “Peace and Justice” does not offer a counterbalance to the naive triumphalism of the Czech government and parts of the media, writes Ondřej Slačálek. It sees the situation from the point of view of “European households and companies” and throws the Ukrainians and Russians overboard. (...)
We mourn the loss of our friend and comrade Arend van de Poel who passed away on 4 January 2023. He first became politically active in 1966 when he joined protests against the US war in Vietnam. He joined the independent Socialist Youth and some years later was a founding member of the (...)
The invasion and destruction of Ukraine by the armies of the Russian Federation has been going on for almost a year.
Of course, as is well known, the entire history of capitalism is punctuated with wars, devastation, massacres. The “world peace” pledged immediately after the defeat of (...)
Maurice Ferares (5-1-1922- 18-12 2022) always in resistance. We received the news that Maurice Ferares passed away 18 December 2022. Maurice was politically active throughout his adult life in the revolutionary socialist movement. We lose in him an extremely committed comrade, who always and (...)
Thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to reconquer what he calls “Russian space” in Ukraine, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), enlarged to include Finland and Sweden, is on the road to recovery from what French president Emmanuel Macron in 2019 termed its “brain death”. (...)
Critique of speech delivered by an Irish Member of the European Parliament, Mick Wallace (Ireland South) – Justine McCarthy, Irish Times, December 9 2022.
Two Irish MEP’s Mick Wallace (Ireland South) and Clare Daly (Dublin) have created a serious problem for themselves, the left in Ireland, and (...)
Göte Kildén, pioneer of Socialist Politics (SP) in Sweden and the first editor of the journal Internationalen, died on Wednesday night last week [17 November]. Although we knew that Göte had been severely ill since a long time, many friends and comrades were halted mid-step, affected by the (...)
The large-scale invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia raises the question of whether the left-wing movement in our country has the strength and will to question itself and change its identity, in a direction that is up to the challenges of the present.
One expression would survive Susan (...)
In the following article, Olena Slobodian, activist of the left Ukrainian group ’Sotsialnyi Ruch’, suggess how and under which conditions emancipatory forces in Ukraine could support a possible EU accession of the country. She critically examines positions in the Western - especially the German - (...)
Credit where credit is due – the Sinn Féin 2022 Árd Fheis has adopted a very good policy statement. This policy compares very well against the policy of People Before Profit and the Dublin South-West TD Paul Murphy – who need to think again.
The Sinn Féin policy statement is also a welcome (...)
Dave Kellaway refutes some of the left’s ideas that calling a general election or voting Labour plays into the hands of a Tory-lite Starmer and undermines the developing strike wave.
“Labour is dead for socialists”,
“Starmer has completely killed off the hopes of Corbyn and it is a waste of time (...)
A few days ago I wrote about the shameful editorial in the Internationalen newspaper 41/2022 - in which the Socialistisk Politik organisation claims that the Russian nuclear threat makes it necessary to end arms aid to Ukraine. Implicitly this must be done so that Ukraine can be effectively (...)
The Phoenix piece from 5th May 2022- re-posted in the ‘Left Links’ Facebook group on 3rd October 2022 – is a case of accusation through association, and association through juxtaposition, seeking to identify Ukrainian activist and academic Nadia Dobrianska with the far right.
In the Facebook (...)
Sweden’s Socialistisk Politik group and their newspaper Internationalen propose a curious ’peace’ for Eastern Europe. A peace that is good for Russian imperialism and bad for Ukrainians.
In today’s society it is difficult to find anyone claiming to be in favor of war and in opposition to peace. (...)
Over 120 socialists closed their meeting in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 25 September by singing three verses of The International. “A lot more than the social-democrats sing”, one participant remarked. Not only in singing does the meeting of a new organization, simply called De Socialisten, hope (...)
A group of journalists and activists from Italy discuss the crisis that the war in Ukraine provoked among the Italian left and trace its historical roots
It might sound exaggerated to say that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine calls into question the very core of the identity of the Italian left. (...)
Leftwing party’s future in balance after series of resignations, as former co-leader calls coalition ‘stupidest government in Europe’
Germany’s Die Linke could split into two parties over the Ukraine war, as the ailing leftwing party’s indecisive stance over economic sanctions against Russia (...)
What are the main issues at stake for the Finnish left? How did people in Finland react to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Why is ecology a top priority on the agenda? Mia Haglund, a deputy of the Left Alliance and a secretary general of the NGLA, discusses left politics in the party and beyond (...)
International solidarity between socialists and anarchists in Ukraine and Ireland is growing. We are united in a desire to see Russia defeated, which will be a blow to the right everywhere. We are equally united in our opposition to Western imperialism and the global capitalists circling (...)
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