Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KERR Gregor
Due to time constraints I didn’t get an opportunity to deliver my prepared speech at the Irish Left With Ukraine Fringe Meeting at the ICTU Conference yesterday evening. If you get a chance to listen to the 3 fabulous Ukrainian speakers, you will realise that my speech wasn’t missed!
If I had (…)
, by GRAND Arthur, NAGEL Paul
What do anarchists in Germany think about the war in Ukraine? Can the left in Western and Eastern Europe work together? Is it possible to fight far-right trends through language? Paul Nagel, a Sorbian activist and musician from Germany, shares his thoughts
Many left groups around the world do (…)
, by KULBACZEWSKA-FIGAT Małgorzata
This month, Poland’s liberal opposition mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to protest the ruling party’s attacks on the rule of law. But it’s less clear that it’s winning over the government’s supporters, who remain wedded to its social programs.
On June 4, hundreds of thousands of (…)
, by CZAJKOWSKI Jan
After 16 months of full scale war, Internationalen, the weekly newspaper of Socialistisk Politik (Socialist Politics, SP) has more or less ceased its coverage of Ukraine. A discussion of the issues involved or of the standpoints of the organization has taken is not desired. I myself have been (…)
, by ŠUMICHRAST Adam
The left everywhere faces a long-term decline in support. But in Slovakia, two political parties both claiming to be social democratic are competing for the largest share of the vote. Both are to some extent playing on nationalist motives. One of them, Smer (led by Robert Fico) has added ’Slovak (…)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
Unfortunately, the end of Berlusconi does not mean the end of the model of (bourgeois) politics that he invented and implemented. Why not? Because Berlusconi has succeeded in setting an example by shaping a whole ’generation’ of extremely neo-liberal and hyper-reactionary far-right politicians (…)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
This article, by Dave Kellaway critically examines the legacy of Silvio Berlusconi, the controversial former Prime Minister of Italy, highlighting his numerous legal battles, alleged mafia connections, and media empire, while questioning the reverence shown towards him on Italian television and (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We, the undersigned representatives of the Nordic green left, declare our solidarity with the rightful resistance of the Ukrainian people and emphasise the sole responsibility of the Russian regime for initiating this illegal invasion, escalating it to the point of risking nuclear war, and (…)
, by OPPENHEIM Ana
He’s unbearable.
“We could all feel we were participating in something huge and unprecedented. I actually burst into tears as we were approaching a meet-up point. That initial moment was unforgettable.”
Dorota, 41, is an NGO worker from Warsaw, Poland. She was one of the estimated half a (…)
, by GREGORY Richard
A trickle of studies warning that the enormous variety of living things on Earth is diminishing has turned into a flood. The evidence for these losses within regions and globally is undeniable. But data on biodiversity, and what is causing its decline, is still patchy – restricted to some (…)
, by FERNANDEZ Brais
The defeat of the left-wing bloc in the municipal and regional elections on 28 May has unleashed a political earthquake. The ruling Partido Socialista Obrero Español – PSOE or Spanish Socialist Workers Party – lost six of the eight autonomous communities in which it governed. Now, the Valencian (…)
, by JOSEF Bianca
Around 150,000 teachers and other school staff members have been on general strike since Monday [22 May]. The teachers’ protest follows failed negotiations between the National College of Leaders of the FSLI and the ESF (which are the biggest Romanian education workers’ organizations) and the (…)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
How can we explain the victory, or rather triumph, of the Greek right and the defeat, or rather collapse, of the Syriza Left in the May 21 elections? How do we explain the fact that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s New Democracy (ND) party more than doubled (41%) Syriza’s score (20%)? And (…)
, by MULLEN Pat
The Killing of a Journalist is a chilling inquiry into the brutal murders of Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová. With investigative rigour, Matt Sarnecki makes his feature directorial debut by drawing upon his background reporting in corruption and (…)
, by Rødt
The Norwegian Left Party Red (Rødt) adopted this statement at its national meeting in Stavanger on 23 April 2023.
The Red Party (Rødt) strongly condemns Russia’s aggressive attack on Ukraine in violation of international law. This is imperialism that goes against everything Red (Rødt) stands (…)
, by SOEIRO José
Jose Soeiro analyses why it is important to put care at the centre of the political debate to fight inequalities, and why making care a universal social right and collective responsibility should be the aim of a demanding democracy.
The crisis of care in the aftermath of the pandemic
The (…)
, by CRELLIN Zac
Documents reviewed by The Washington Post reportedly show how Russia has attempted to forge a coalition between Germany’s far-left and the far-right to oppose support for Ukraine.
Russia attempted to influence German public opinion to oppose support for Ukraine and become more hostile toward (…)
, by TURIGLIATTO Franco
What does the DPEF (Government budget plan) express? How is the Italian situation different from France, but also from England and Germany? Building mass meetings of workers to build a path of struggle and strike action is crucial.
The 25 April and 1 May are two dates that are not only (…)
, by O’DRISCOLL Eugene
Joe Biden comes to Ireland this week, looking for iconic moments to reinforce and revive the promises made by Bill Clinton to the people of the North after the Good Friday Agreement and in pursuit for his homecoming moment like John F. Kennedy in the 60s. He’ll get neither in terms of the (…)
, by KRIVONOS Daria
In recent years, there has been a growing tendency among scholars and activists in Eastern Europe to draw parallels and links between the “postcolonial” and the “postsocialist”. In its extreme, as Adem Ferizaj argues in his recent review, the use of postcolonial approaches in the context of (…)
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