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. Some countries not formal members of the EU are included in this section.
That the right-wing won the recent Dutch elections was no surprise. What was surprising was how decisive the share of the far-right was in the overall right-wing victory. For Geert Wilders, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (PVV), years of patience paid off while the incumbent (...)
Overnight, following an investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office into suspected corruption, Prime Minister António Costa of the PS resigned. Portugal goes to the polls on 10 March 2024.
Crédit Photo. Antonio Costa. Wikimedia commons
Portugal woke up on 7 November to the news that (...)
On October 8, elections were held in two important states of Germany: Bavaria and Hesse. Bavaria is the second largest German state in terms of population and also one of the wealthiest, with its economy also ranking second among German states in terms of GDP. Hesse ranks fifth in terms of (...)
The German government does not even support the call for a ceasefire. No other government in the world so totally supports the policy of Israeli governments, however far right-wing and racist they may be.
One might think that this attitude is an inescapable duty in the context of the (...)
Since Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, thousands have protested Dutch complicity & silence. In the lead up to upcoming elections progressive parties are avoiding taking a position, but the solidarity movement is making this difficult, writes Alex de Jong.
On 15 October, thousands marched in (...)
Irish support for Palestinian rights stems partly from its own experience of colonialism and violence – but that’s not all
In recent weeks, leaders from the European Union, the UK and the US have stood shoulder to shoulder with Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing support for Israel’s “right to (...)
Poland held elections on October 15 for the lower house (Sejm) and Senate, which ended the eight-year, two-term rule of the incumbent Law and Justice (PiS) party and the United Right (ZP) political alliance centred on it. The election featured the highest turnout in the history of the Third (...)
Interview with the crust/hardcore punk band Adacta from Slovakia. The band has been playing for 23 years and is well-known among metal and punk enthusiasts worldwide. After the start of the Russian invasion, Adacta organized solidarity concerts and released merchandise to provide various forms (...)
Two Swedes were shot dead in Brussels on October 16 on their way to a football stadium to watch Sweden play Belgium. Another Swedish citizen was fatally injured.
Their assassin, Abdesalem Lassoued — shot dead the next morning by the Belgian police at a café — reportedly sympathised with (...)
What is the position of the Left in Slovakia’s current political landscape?
From an Eastern European perspective, Slovakia may appear exceptional in that two nominally social-democratic parties, Smer – Slovenská sociálna demokracia (“Direction – Slovak Social Democracy”) and Hlas – Sociálna (...)
Two weeks before the parliamentary elections, between 600,000 and one million people opposed to the populist conservative government of the Law and Justice party (PiS) demonstrated in Warsaw on 1 October.
This mobilization came after massive feminist demonstrations for abortion rights since (...)
The arrogant and indecent decision of the Italian government to imitate the mafias that run the Libyan camps, by asking migrants to pay a “state protection” (pizzo di stato) of no less than €4,938 to avoid ending up in the Italian camps that Meloni and Piantedosi intend to multiply on the (...)
At the end of May, following a right-wing surge in the Spanish regional and municipal elections, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez – leader of the centre-left PSOE – announced that the country would soon return to the polls. A snap general election would decide whether Spain would be governed by a (...)
Greece has suffered terrible fires this summer. They killed at least 26 people, including at least 20 refugees, shepherds and two Canadair pilots, ravaged forests and crops, burnt hundreds of animals, hundreds of houses and several businesses, and even military barracks.
In July, the fires (...)
With pro-Russia commentators regularly appearing on TV, Italians are less likely to back Ukraine than people in most other EU states
Whenever Nello Scavo returns from Ukraine, he is overcome with frustration. As a war correspondent for the Italian national newspaper Avvenire, he knows the (...)
On 25 July, Moscow security forces arrested the sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, a well-known Russian Marxist intellectual who has never hidden his opposition to what the Russians are forced to call ’special military operation’. Kagarlitsky’s release was also demanded by an appeal signed by many (...)
Anti-Russian hatred is a weapon that serves the current Russian government - and at the same time strips us of our humanity. The recent antics of the Czech art group Ztohoven are the latest example of this.
The art group Ztohoven has produced stickers with an original motif: a turd in the (...)
The following is an initial assessment of the results of the Spanish state elections held on Sunday, July 23. We hope that others will follow, both at the national level and in the various territories, to take the pulse of the political situation.
The “blue summer” promised by Feijóo has (...)
The leadership of the Left Party has acted very strangely on the NATO issue. Instead of conducting public opinion work against NATO, they have in practice laid themselves flat for the government and the Social Democrats’ line on the issue. The argumentation has been zero or, in cases where it (...)
Dan McLaughlin and Conor Gallagher have written a fine tribute to Finbar Cafferkey. When Russia’s genocidal imperialist invasion of Ukraine is over – and hopefully is defeated – Finbar Cafferkey will deserve to be honoured as an Irish fighter who fought imperialist war at home and abroad. (...)
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