Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by CAULCUTT Clea
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has at last appointed a prime minister to break France’s political deadlock. In doing so he has handed the far right a major win.
The survival of Michel Barnier’s future government depends on the goodwill of the National Rally, the far-right party of (…)
, by BRODER David
Emmanuel Macron has appointed Michel Barnier as France’s prime minister, after securing Marine Le Pen’s agreement. The creation of a government reliant on her blessing is another step in the far right’s march toward power.
Michel Barnier during a speech at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, France, (…)
, by BALHORN Loren
There were few surprises in the German state of Thuringia’s regional elections last Sunday. Polling had long suggested that the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which already scored 23.4% five years ago, was well-positioned to take first place, and that Die Linke, the party of (…)
, by SALVI Ellen
Michel Barnier, 73, the former European Union commissioner and Brexit negotiator, a member of France’s conservative Les Républicains party, was on Thursday appointed by President Emmanuel Macron as the country’s new prime minister. The move came after several days of discussions between Macron (…)
, by SAMARY Catherine
Catherine Samary examines the complex political, social, and geopolitical dynamics surrounding Ukraine under Russian occupation, tracing the events from the 2014 annexation of Crimea to the ongoing conflict, while analysing narratives and responses from various factions, including the Ukrainian (…)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway responds to British PM Keir Starmer’s keynote speech on August 27th and on the first months of the new government.
Many senior Labour figures have a fascination with US politics, particularly the Democratic Party. They often mimic its messaging and electoral strategies. It’s (…)
, by KENNEDY Hank
Hank Kennedy writes on the transphobia of once-prominent British leftist, George Galloway, and explores the convergence of the far right and sections of the Left around a familiarly hateful “family values.”
Although you wouldn’t know it from the tut-tutting of outraged conservatives, it seems (…)
, par CALFUQUIR Julian-Nicolas
France’s elections in July handed a surprise first place to the New Popular Front, which is now demanding the right to govern. To really change the country, it needs to broaden its base of support among nonvoters and the working class.
Lucie Castets (L), candidate of the New Popular Front for (…)
, by LYNCH Lily
At a breakfast discussion at Davos in January 2023, the BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said that Ukraine’s postwar recovery could become “a beacon to the rest of the world about the power of capitalism”. The scene could have been a parody of Russian propaganda: the head of an American asset firm (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Presentation at the Trotsky Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico City, August 23, 2024.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and Lev Davidovich Bronstein have been known to most of the world by their aliases from the revolutionary underground: Lenin and Trotsky. The very core of their identities is bound up with their (…)
, by SÓLYMOS Karin Kőváry
The European Union’s Green Deal has set an ambitious goal of becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The EU’s actions are aimed at using renewable energy sources, eliminating dependence on fossil fuels and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Road transport accounts for a (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick
“During the days of February ... the Ukrainian soldiers of the Petrograd garrison were the first to side with the revolution, because we had suffered enough from the persecution of Ukrainians under the old regime”, a Ukrainian soldier stationed in the Russian capital later declared. N He was one (…)
, by BASU Anjan
Seventy-eight years ago on August 21, an assassin’s hatchet snuffed out the life of Leon Trotsky in his last refuge on the planet.
[The publication of this article in The Wire is important for the Indian militant left. ESSF]
While convalescing in an Oslo hospital in September-October, 1935 (…)
, by PRÖBSTING Michael
Since the start of the Ukraine War, a number of organisations have wrongly taken a neutral position in this conflict. They refused to defend Ukraine despite its semi-colonial character and Russia’s imperialist character. To justify such an approach, they often used the example of Vladimir (…)
, by JAFFARD Sylvestre, Tempest
Tempest interviews Sylvestre Jaffard, member of the NPA-l’Anticapitaliste, about the French elections last month, their political impact on both the right and Left, and the prospects going forward.
Tempest: Given the success of the far right in the European elections, and how quickly the (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick, The Feminist Workshop
In this month of August, we are celebrating exactly two and a half years since our Feminist Workshop opened its first shelter for internally displaced women. At the start of the invasion, we opened three shelters. Two of them stayed open for six months. Today, we would like to announce some (…)
, by AROSHVILI Alexandra , SABUROVA Daria, SHENGELIA Mariam
In April-May 2024, tens of thousands of Georgians took to the streets to protest against the new “Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence,” which was finally passed by the parliament on May 28th, overturning the presidential veto. This law requires NGOs that receive more than 20% of their (…)
, by SEYMOUR Richard
[For more than ten days or so, several towns in the UK have been the scene of racist riots targeting mosques, businesses run by Muslims and refugee centres. The riots began after the murder of three young girls in the coastal town of Southport on 29 July and the spread of false information (…)
, by Anti*Capitalist Resistance
1. The tragic murder of three young children by a 17 year old in Southport in July 2024 has been manipulated by opportunistic fascist forces to organise a series of riots across England. They have kick started a response from across the organised workers’ movement and threatened muslim (…)
, by PETIE Olivia, PHILLIMORE Jenny
As tensions have risen around small boat crossings and asylum seekers in the UK, the hotels housing them have become regular targets of attacks by far-right, anti-immigration protesters.
Over the weekend, rioters threw projectiles at hotels and reportedly tried to set fire to one in what the (…)
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