Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine
On 19 March, a representative of the Social Movement, Oleksandr Kiselyov, addressed the XXV Congress (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S6lK5Ig7AQ4f9hCdtBquVd4iK2vzWiTwKPMzAbwglDM/edit?usp=sharing) of one of Norway’s largest political forces, the Socialist Left Party (SV - Sosialistisk (...)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway gives an update on the deepening crisis in France and we translate the latest statement from npa - nouveau parti anticapitaliste.
Yesterday, the crisis in France over Macron’s attempt to force people to work another two years before they can take a state pension took a new, (...)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
Macron and his government have just attempted to force their way through on 16 March, by trying to impose their law on pensions without any vote in the National Assembly by using Article 49.3 of the Constitution, a real “hold-up”, allowing them to gag parliamentarians imposing the adoption of a (...)
, by NPA
Statement by the NPA on 16 March 2023 after the French government imposed its pension reform bill without a vote in parliament.
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The use of the 49.3 by the government is a democratic scandal. It shows the weakness of the government’s social base and of its authoritarian (...)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
In Dave Kellaway’s analysis, the Tory government’s budget aims to address the cost of living crisis, but falls short in providing significant support for public sector workers, housing, or the NHS, while offering tax breaks for the wealthy and businesses; Labour’s response highlights the need for (...)
, by RAMDANI Ilyes
The French government on Thursday announced it will use an article of the constitution that allows it to adopt as legislation its proposed and hotly contested reform of the pensions system without a vote in Parliament. In this op-ed analysis of the move, Mediapart political correspondent Ilyes (...)
, by PASHKOFF Susan
The article by Susan Pashkoff discusses the impact of high childcare costs and lack of access to childcare on women’s ability to work and their financial security, as well as the broader issue of women’s lower wages and dependence on benefits.
On March 6 2023, while watching Sky News, they (...)
, by PILASH Denis
Our friend and comrade Marko Bojcun, a political economist, researcher of labour history, activist of leftist movements and solidarity with Ukraine, has passed away. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Marko Bojcun played a crucial role in keeping the fire of the Ukrainian left alive (...)
, by ROWLEY Thomas
UK MPs John McDonnell, Nadia Whittome and Clive Lewis join Ukrainian solidarity event with international activists in London
Ukraine must not only defeat Russian aggression but resist neoliberal economic reforms if it is to thrive, British MPs told an international audience on Saturday. (...)
, by GACHE Juliette , GALLOIS Léontine
Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the pension age has stirred mass opposition. The labor minister pushing the bill is an ex-Socialist — and the huge protests in his hometown show how the neoliberalized center left has sold out working-class France.
It’s a chilly, rainy day in Annonay, just south of (...)
, by PEARSON Simon
Simon Pearson says it’s a classic case of power versus principle, and the stakes have never been higher. In the end, it’s not just about football - it’s about the very soul of our democracy.
The BBC. It’s a monolithic, behemoth of an institution that looms over the British media landscape like a (...)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
The March 7 demonstrations in 280 cities in France broke the records of popular mobilization since the beginning of the movement for the defence of pensions: 3.5 million demonstrators according to the CGT, and 1.28 million according to the Ministry of the Interior. In both cases, these figures (...)
, by TEMIROV Artem
Russian activist Artem Temirov writes on what he sees as a concerning trend within the Hellenic left to fall into a knee-jerk “anti-imperialism” that is in fact anything but.
[(Author’s note: A significant part of the Greek Left for a very long time has been plagued by narrow anti-Americanism (...)
, by BBC
Ukrainian soldier, human rights activist and former BBC journalist Maksym Butkevych was sentenced to 13 years in prison in an ’LPR court’.
In the summer of 2022, Maksym Butkevych, who fought in eastern Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was taken prisoner by Russia.
Maksym’s (...)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Millions of French citizens are participating in the sixth national strike wave against President Macron’s proposed pension reforms, as reported by Dave Kellaway. Despite the government’s efforts to push the reforms through parliament, the mobilisation continues to gain momentum.
Commentators on (...)
, by TALAVER Sasha
«The woman behind the wheel is the driver,» says the propaganda of the Moscow region transport.
From the poster, a stern, old-fashioned cold wave-laden woman behind the wheel looks into the distance. The nostalgic font, heavily associated with the USSR, Rodchenko’s iconography, the tone of voice (...)
, by PLENEL Edwy
The battle against the French government’s pension reform is not simply just another protest movement. Three crucial issues are at stake here: social, democratic and civilisational, as shown by the exceptional unity among trade unions opposed to the changes, argues Mediapart’s publishing editor (...)
, by ONARAN Özlem
Introduction
Soaring prices of energy, food, other essentials and rent in 2022, caused by multiple supply chain disruptions after Brexit and the pandemic, followed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, brought an intensive cost of living crisis, exacerbated by inequalities in class, race, gender, as (...)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
The following could be a dark humor joke, but it is a very real story and, above all, emblematic of this neoliberal and dilapidated Greece of the first half of the 21st century.
Only a few hours before the terrible rail disaster of 28 February, the president of the train drivers’ union Kostas (...)
, by PEARSON Simon
Simon Pearson’s review of the BBC documentary series “Murder in the Pacific” highlights the shocking act of state-sponsored terrorism that occurred in Auckland, New Zealand in July 1985 - the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior.
“Murder in the Pacific” (three part series) BBC (...)
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