Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Previous articles concerning EU countries (and not EU institutions) are beginning to be regrouped in this new section. It will take time.
The republic is the future. This option enjoys broad majority support among people aged under 40, those who neither lived through the transition nor were able to vote for the Constitution. The data shows a notable generational and territorial polarization – also between left and right, with a (...)
More than 100 women launch action as activists say practice is serious violation of human rights and privacy
A group of more than 100 Italian women have asked prosecutors to investigate who is behind the burial for nearly a decade of foetuses in graves marked with the names of their mothers in (...)
What is social reproduction?
A socialist feminist approach to social reproduction calls for recognizing the fact that the (material and symbolic) reproduction of the labor force is an essential condition of capitalist production. Most importantly, it highlights how capitalism functions at the (...)
For two months, Bulgarians have protested against a scandal-ridden government which refuses to resign.
On September 2, the two-month-long anti-governmental protests in Bulgaria entered the most violent stage to date. For the first time, the police deployed water cannon, tear gas and pepper (...)
In 2015, the Syriza party’s (the Coalition of the Radical Left) electoral victory in Greece, in the wake of dozens of one and two-day general strikes and a vibrant set of social movements, raised the prospects of a “rupture” with the Eurozone and the opening of a continent-wide confrontation with (...)
In early 1990s Italy, the retreat of the Left and mounting popular cynicism toward politics allowed a new radical right to begin building its hegemony. For all its idiosyncrasies, the Italy of those years looks increasingly like a mirror of our own future — a country where fascist talking points (...)
On May 25, 2020, Romanian Finance Minister Florin Cîțu declared that the government’s recovery plan would be presented to the public on June 1st. The plan has yet to be launched, and thus Romanians must rely on various declarations of political leaders to reconstruct their economic paradigm. The (...)
Bulgaria—and most East and Central European countries—have not had the devastating COVID-19 numbers that Western Europe has exhibited and unlike the US, for example, have managed to significantly bring down the number of infections. However, far from a major success on part of the country’s (...)
On 8 May, two days before a presidential election was due to take place in Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza, the country’s leading daily newspaper, published an interview starting with the words ‘There is no civil society in Poland’. The statement’s author argued that ‘in any other country in Western (...)
In moments of heightened crisis, such as today’s, one of the first strategies of a state is to defer its pretense of universal social solidarity, directing its energies towards the social groups it prioritizes but normally cannot single out. This same tendency often leads to postponing of its (...)
This is an edited version of a piece by Leopoldo Tartaglia of the international department of the CGIL, Italy’s largest union federation. Read further down to see how Italian workers have fought for their health with widespread strikes.
Italy is the Western European country where the coronavirus pandemic spread first and where its tragic effects are being felt the most. As of March 17, the official data say 26,062 have tested positive in Italy for (...)
Structural, racialized patterns of segregation and structural violence against Roma people have been institutionalized in Central and Eastern Europe for centuries, before, during and after state socialism. After 1989, despite the rise of human-rights and pro-Roma discourse in post-socialist (...)
Buoyed by fire sales of public assets, a tiny minority of Greeks are thriving. Everyone else is mired in hopelessness
Spring is already in the air across Greece. Even in the bleakest of times, nature’s renaissance renders hope irrepressible. But this one is proving a cruel spring for a people (...)
People caught entering or leaving outbreak areas to be fined, after country’s third death.
Italian authorities have implemented draconian measures to try to halt the coronavirus outbreak in the north of the country, including imposing fines on anyone caught entering or leaving outbreak areas, (...)
Five years after Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras capitulated to the Troika, the Left’s challenge to European neoliberalism is weaker than ever. The Greek case showed how the Left could exploit ruling-class crisis — but also the tragic consequences of a failure to prepare for power.
In 2010, Greece (...)
Last Saturday, Ireland bucked the European trend as its voters turned sharply left. Sinn Féin was the main beneficiary, but the party has some big choices to make in the months ahead if it’s going to capitalize on this breakthrough.
It took nine years and three elections, but the economic crash (...)
Our dear Vidya Bal passed away on 30-1-2020.
Vidyatai (tai in Marathi language means sister) was a highly respected feminist for her warm, affectiate and welcoming nature. She had a fan-following among 4 generations as she was ready to listen to them with genuine interest and enter into a (...)
Regional elections in two parts of Italy, Emilia Romagna and Calabria were held on Sunday January 26. They were seen as posing a big challenge to the government if Salvini’s Lega (League, formerly Northern League) won. Dave Kellaway looks at what happened and its implications.
During the last (...)
Croatia recently assumed the presidency of the Council of the EU, but has Europe had any effect on the country since it joined the EU in 2013? Marko Kostanić of the Croatian magazine Bilten takes stock of the last eight years.
The role of the European Union in Croatian political life is a (...)
Jaime Pastor is a leading member of Anticapitalistas, the author of several books, including Nationalism, the Spanish State, and the Left (Viento Sur) , and the editor of Viento Sur magazine, a leading voice of the left in the Spanish State. This article was published by Viento Sur and (...)
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