Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by DAVYDENKO Polina, DOBEŠ Lukáš
A report from the Kharkiv direction of the front and an interview with medic Kuba describe how the position of women in the army has changed during the ten-year war. On the Bakhmut direction, drone operators from the Black Raven company admit to fatigue, but also unwavering motivation.
We are (…)
, by LE TRÉHONDAT Patrick
One of the most troubled sectors in Ukraine is that of hospitals. Since the start of the Russian aggression, according to the Ukrainian Health Centre, more than 1,900 attacks have been recorded against health infrastructures. The Ukrainian health system (medical establishments and other health (…)
, by BRESOLINI Marco, RACKETE Carola, ZELLER Christian
Interview with European MP Carola Rackete, taken from the German-language site emanzipation.org. We apologise for any translation issues.
“Being left-wing means being on the side of the oppressed, whether in Palestine, Kurdistan or Ukraine: That is why the EU must continue to supply weapons to (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, MATVEEV Ilya
Russian socialist and political economist Ilya Matveev sat down with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes to discuss imperialism’s “two logics” and how they help us better understand the world today.
Matveev is speaking on the panel “Imperialism(s) today” at the October 8 online conference, Boris (…)
, by Kyiv Post
Over 20,000 sanctions have been levied against Russia since it invaded Ukraine – but that hasn’t stopped EU companies from trading with it, propping up its war-time economy.
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of Kyiv Post articles on how Russia evades sanctions to wage its war (…)
, by ASTASHIN Ivan
Why are there no mass anti-war demonstrations in Russia? What do individual protest actions against Putin’s regime look like? How do people resist the logistics of war? Solidarity Zone activist Ivan Astashin recounts a short history of anti-war protest in Russia
How did we respond to the (…)
, by EF, WH and PS
The right-wing extremist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) under Herbert Kickl received 29% of the vote and was elected by 1.4 million, almost twice as many voters as five years ago. This is the best result for the FPÖ since its founding in 1955; in 2019, it was 770,000. Compared to the last (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, MATVEEV Ilya
[Editor’s note: Ilya Matveev will discuss the topic of “Imperialism(s) today” at the online conference, “Boris Kagarlitsky and the challenges of the left today”, on October 8. The Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign is organising the conference as part of its campaign for (…)
, by JOHNSON Mark
When Roger McKenzie, the (then) assistant general secretary of Unison, failed in his bid to become general secretary in 2020, he fairly promptly got a job at Liberation (formerly the Movement for Colonial Freedom), resigned from the Labour Party and joined the Communist Party of Britain. (…)
, by BREDOUX Lénaïq, SALVI Ellen
The composition of the new French government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier was decided during all-male meetings between political representatives of the conservative and centre-right parties. And it shows, write Mediapart’s co-editor Lénaïg Bredoux and political correspondent Ellen Salvi in (…)
The 2024 cycle of German regional elections finished with the elections to the Brandenburg Landtag on 21 September. As was the case on 1 September in Saxony and Thuringia, the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party achieved historic results and can feel a winner. Co-president Alice Weidel (…)
, by ESCALONA Fabien
The new French government is the most rightwing in France for more than a decade despite the fact that the leftwing alliance, the Nouveau Front Populaire, won more seats in July’s parliamentary elections than any other political group. Mediapart’s Fabien Escalona argues in this op-ed article (…)
, by RAMDANI Ilyes
On Saturday President Emmanuel Macron appointed France’s most rightwing government in twelve years. All factions on the Right are represented in prime minister Michel Barnier’s team, even if this has meant disregarding the results of the parliamentary elections held back on July 7th. The (…)
A newspaper acting as the mouthpiece of Russian imperialism launched a vicious campaign against Carola Rackete yesterday, which as a leftist member of the EU parliament agreed to a resolution supporting the Ukrainian resistance.
This resolution calls for : 1. Supply of enough ammunition to (…)
, by THOS Aurélie-Anne
The so-called ‘Mazan rape trial’ commenced in France in early September. Over the next four months, 51 men will be tried for the rape of Gisèle Pelicot, drugged by her husband Dominique Pelicot who also recruited these men on the internet. Aurélie-Anne Thos contextualises the events and the (…)
, by GARÍ Manuel
In a context of an ebb in the workers’ movement - the year 2023 has seen the lowest number of strike hours in more than forty years - and the end of the political cycle that opened with the movement of the indignados of 15M and the creation of new left-wing electoral forces, the celebration of (…)
, by PETTERSSON Lars B.
The Big Butterfly Count reported its worst results in 14 years of monitoring UK species.
Small tortoiseshell butterflies had their worst year on record. HWall/Shutterstock
The charity behind the world’s largest butterfly survey has declared a national emergency.
Butterfly Conservation’s (…)
, by Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc / Bloc de Gauche)
Seven people have died and 118 have been injured in the fires that have been raging since September 15 in the north and centre of the country. In just three days, 2024 has become the year with the fourth-largest area burned in the last decade.
Seven people have died and 118 have been injured (…)
, by UHLOVÁ Saša
Unaffordability of housing in the Czech Republic has a number of negative impacts. Including offers where it is sometimes difficult to see how they are actually intended.
Two and a half years ago, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian war refugees, mostly women, children and the elderly, came to (…)
, by DORLING Danny
Children are becoming poorer in the UK – more so than in other countries.
Children’s lives in the UK are changing.
They are becoming shorter in height. More of them are going hungry than they were a few years ago. Recently, more have died each year than they did a few years ago. Increased (…)
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