Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
See also the rubric “At the Left” (in “Europe & France”) for several European networks.
Dave Kellaway reports from Italy on the G20 protests
“Voi la malattia, noi la cura”, “Voi il G20, noi il future.” These were the key slogans heard in Rome on 30 0ctober. “You are the illness, We are the cure. You are the G20. We are the future.” Militant eco-activists joined with class (...)
Monday, Oct. 7, marks the start of what the British-based group Extinction Rebellion is calling the International Rebellion. Thousands of people will occupy the centers of some 60 cities around the globe, including Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris and New York, to stage nonviolent occupations of (...)
The radical group has galvanised young and old. But in the year since it formed, what has life been like inside the movement?
In the last week alone, members of Extinction Rebellion have been described as ecomaniacs (Daily Mail), ecoradicals ignoring our economic doom (Times), dangerous and (...)
The anti-G7 meeting at Hendaye and Irun has brought together thousands of participants and provided the opportunity to organize hundreds of activities, bring to life a camp of alternatives and multiply the number of actions and street demonstrations.
We are mobilising against a divided G7 (...)
While the campaign for the European elections on 26 May 2019 draws very little interest, the initiative launched by ReCommonsEurope with its ‘Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe’ is on to a promising start. The text was drafted over some twelve months by sixteen people from (...)
Will Snell from the The Tax Justice Network writes about a decade of campaigning against the global economic system which caused the crash
When the Tax Justice Network was formed in 2003, the idea of campaigning to change the global tax system was seen as eccentric, at best. Founding (...)
Katrín Jakobsdóttir says her goal is to restore confidence as she becomes Iceland’s fourth prime minister in two years. The leader of the Green Left Movement has alienated some of her original supporters already...
By the age of eight, Katrín Jakobsdóttir was reading Agatha Christie. A (...)
The international anti-capitalist movement is back on the streets. On 8 July, 76,000 people demonstrated against the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany – the largest such mobilisation in at least 10 years.
Many people did everything possible to prevent such a large gathering, not least Hamburg (...)
One day after and some rest one may finally ask the question what did the summit achieve for whom politically?
This is the attempt approaching the reality of the G20 summit. It will name the deeply undemocratic and aggressive behavior of the police, the impressive and courageous protest, and (...)
There are police checkpoints on all the major roads in and out of St Pauli and Sternschanze, the leftist districts at the heart of Hamburg. Helicopters fly overhead constantly, providing the backdrop to discussions on street corners and in parks. The patrol cars that are sent through the (...)
Hamburg officials are ramping up security as thousands of demonstrators head to the port city this weekend to confront world leaders.
German police deployed a water cannon and pepper spray to disperse around 500 protesters in Hamburg, ahead of the Group of 20 (G20) Summit this weekend, (...)
SOLIDARITY WITHOUT BORDERS INSTEAD OF G20!
Coalition Call to Action for the Major demonstration against the G20 summit on Saturday, July 8 in Hamburg!
FEB 17, 2017
Something is going very wrong in the world:
• There seems to be no end to wars and armed conflicts as in Syria, Iraq or (...)
Hundreds of thousands take to streets in Germany against Obama-backed trade deal
BERLIN — Hundreds of thousands of Germans took to the streets Saturday, in protest of pending trade deals with the United States and Canada.
The deals in question are the Transatlantic Trade and Investment (...)
In many European countries, local authorities are declaring their worries or refusals regarding the currently negotiated free trade agreements between the European Union and its economic partners:
• The Transatlantic Trade and Investement Partnership with the USA, also called TTIP;
• The (...)
Report of the meeting of Blockupy International, Brussels, Oct. 16, 2015 The meeting had a good participation with activists from many countries (Belgium, Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Croatia) and from different networks and organizations (trade unions, (...)
Press release
#ChangeEurope & #EuroMarchas2015 Coalition
European Marches, October 1 to 15 - Actions Days, October 15, 16 & 17
Brussels, 30th September 2015
This Thursday 1st of October, Marches will start in Cadiz, Spain, direction Brussels where they will arrive on 15th of (...)
Saturday October 11 saw an extraordinary mobilization success. Over 400 actions were organized in 20 European countries to reject the secret trade deals that the EU is negotiating (TTIP, CETA and TiSA).
Democracy and the environment will not be traded away!
On October 11, 2014, tens of (...)
To all social movements and civil society organizations,
The G20 Counter-Summit was held during the last two days in St-Petersburg, Russia, gathering more than 30 international delegates of social movements to share visions and analysis with Russian groups, and keep building our articulation (...)
A group of 12 MEPs from the left wing group in the European Parliament, GUE-NGL, have signed a joint message of support to Anti-G8 protestors ahead of the summit in two weeks’ time. The message which is signed by MEPS from Denmark, Greece, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Sweden was initiated by (...)
More than 4 thousand participants, 300 networks and organisations from 28 countries from all over Europe and beyond, met at Fortezza da Basso in Florence from November 8th to 11th, to debate and strategize together for another Europe. Over 100 meetings took place and many new networks and (...)
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