Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Geopolitical realignment and anticolonial solidarity in a time of war
WAR: A FAMILIAR COLONIAL NARRATIVE
While Ukraine and the geopolitics of Eastern Europe were far away from Taiwanese consciousness prior to Russia’s invasion, the war has since galvanized a vibrant discussion on imperial (...)
The Russian illegal war in Ukraine has accelerated a shift in the world order forcing a renewed balance of power. Countries and analysts are calculating the implications of re-balancing and positioning for significant changes. Ukraine is ravaged; Russia is the aggressor and will suffer long (...)
‘The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades’. Thus spoke Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the biggest investment firm in the world which manages $10 trillion in assets. Assuming the situation doesn’t spiral out of control – (...)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked much discussion about imperialism on the left. rs21 member Pete Cannell looks at some of the issues raised, and argues for understanding imperialism as a world system.
The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was met by huge protests around the world. The (...)
This text was one of three presented to open a discussion on the international situation at the International Committee meeting and which we agreed will together form the basis for our future elaboration. This was a few hours before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. We also refer to the (...)
Does hegemony require a grand design? In a world where a thousand gilded oligarchs, billionaire sheiks, and Silicon deities rule the human future, we should not be surprised to discover that greed breeds reptilian minds. What I find most remarkable about these strange days – as thermobaric bombs (...)
Accounting for the descent of the European state system into the barbarism of war – for the first time since NATO’s 1999 bombing of Belgrade – needs more than lay psychiatry. What made Russia and ‘the West’ engage in an unrelenting wrestling match on the edge of the abyss, with both sides eventually (...)
It is not an exaggeration to say that what is currently happening in the heart of the European continent is the most dangerous moment in contemporary history and the closest to a Third World war since the Soviet missile crisis in Cuba in 1962.
True, neither Moscow nor Washington has hinted at (...)
Science and Security Board Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Editor, John Mecklin
Editor’s note: Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the (...)
Despite the growing integration of Chinese and American economies, the rise of reactionary nationalism and the role of ‘militarised accumulation’ is tilting these two giant powers towards military confrontation, argues Phil Hearse.
China flew a hypersonic glide vehicle — a manoeuvrable spacecraft (...)
In this interconnected globalised system three major challenges confront Asian states and civil societies: (i) How to deal with the Sino-US competition as the US escalates military alliances like the AUKUS and QUAD (ii) Take a humanitarian position on the civil war that is brewing in Myanmar on (...)
The Australia-United Kingdom-United States (Aukus) security pact has caused ripple effects across oceans and continents. Not only will the trilateral security partnership provoke China, but it will likely further divide Southeast Asia and overshadow Asean-centred cooperative vehicles, such as (...)
Australia could become the first non-nuclear-weapon state to field a nuclear-powered submarine as part of a new trilateral security partnership with the United States and United Kingdom known as AUKUS. The initiative was unveiled at a joint virtual press conference held Sept. 15.
All three (...)
On 16 September 2021, the Prime Minister of Australia, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the President of the United States of America, announced an enhanced trilateral security partnership between Australia, the UK and the US (AUKUS).
This ‘security partnership’ includes Australia (...)
Kate Hudson has been General Secretary of CND since September 2010. Prior to this she served as the organisation’s Chair from 2003. She is a leading anti-nuclear and anti-war campaigner nationally and internationally.
If anyone thought that talking of a ‘new cold war’ with China was overstating (...)
Joe Biden meets leaders of Australia, India and Japan in latest effort to cement US leadership in Asia .
US president Joe Biden and the leaders of Australia, India and Japan highlighted their Quad group’s role in safeguarding a stable, democratic Indo-Pacific in a veiled dig at rival China. (...)
On Friday, the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the US will meet in Washington for the first in-person Quad summit.
Hosted by US President Joe Biden, the attendees are slated to discuss a series of big issues, from COVID-19 to cybersecurity, but China will dominate the conversation.
So, (...)
The deal has upset China, but it also binds the US into European security, in a world where Nato may be less relevant.
France is furious. Theresa May is worried. The announcement of the new Australia-UK-US alliance (Aukus) and the ditching of a previous French-Australian submarine deal has led (...)
This is a compilation of articles posted on ESSF about the September 11, 2001 attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, its framework and implications. This page will be completed. • Julian Borger, ESSF (article 59444), 11 September 2021, Aftershocks, 20 years later: How (...)
The U.S. empire built after World War II was based on its economic and military domination, which remains. But over time it has begun to fray.
The challenge by China on aspects of emerging technology and other economic fronts is one example. But increasing competition from European powers is (...)
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