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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 (...)
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 (...)
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 how (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
The shock among the Dutch chattering classes on 16 March was palpable. The right-populist Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) – established in 2019 by a small communications firm, bankrolled by the powerful Dutch agrifood complex and led by a former meat industry journalist – had massively increased its (...)
What impact has the war in Ukraine had on the political scene in Lithuania? Who are the “vatniks” and how is this notion applied? Activist and editor Jurgis Valiukevičius talks about the problems of the Lithuanian left and its possible strategy
On 24 February 2023, marking one year of war in (...)
The Ministry of Finance is preparing an austerity package to abolish some tax exemptions. If the change also applies to union dues, it could have far-reaching negative consequences.
Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura (ODS) wants to abolish tax exemptions, which he says are inherently (...)
Russian activist Artem Temirov writes on what he sees as a concerning trend within the Hellenic left to fall into a knee-jerk “anti-imperialism” that is in fact anything but.
[(Author’s note: A significant part of the Greek Left for a very long time has been plagued by narrow anti-Americanism (...)
The following could be a dark humor joke, but it is a very real story and, above all, emblematic of this neoliberal and dilapidated Greece of the first half of the 21st century.
Only a few hours before the terrible rail disaster of 28 February, the president of the train drivers’ union Kostas (...)
What the war has revealed about the nature of Ukrainian and Russian societies
Looking back on the year that has passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we would like to take a break from the military and/or geopolitical considerations, the usual analyses devoted to this war, and focus (...)
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February, it soon became clear that there was a gulf between Catalonia’s peace movement, motor-force of the historic 2003 Barcelona demonstration of 1.3 million against the US-led invasion of Iraq, and the country’s 26,000-strong Ukrainian community. (...)
We published a post covering the Irish left’s response to Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine on February 25.
We included references to an Irish Times letter signed by 12 Oireachtas public representatives ((TD’s and Senators) – which prompted several critical replies. One of the original (...)
Dave Kellaway reports on the election of Elly Schlein to leader of the PD in Italy.
Just like Jeremy Corbyn in 2015, even Elly Schlein could scarcely believe it. All the polls and insiders had suggested she would lose by at least ten percentage points or more. She lost the members’ vote by 53% (...)
On the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, February 24 2023, 12 elected left-wing Oireachtas members had a letter published in one of Ireland’s main daily papers, the Irish Times. A number of correspondents rejected the contents of this letter.
On the (...)
In the industrial zone “Triangle” in the far west of Bohemia, a strike took place at the end of January and the beginning of February. Workers at the Nexen Tire factory, which is owned by a South Korean company and produces tyres for global car brands, were reacting to the long-term stagnation of (...)
A year after the Socialist Party (SP) won an absolute majority in the Portuguese parliament, the political situation has been altered by the popular struggle. This struggle is already splitting up into multiple battles. From the struggles of teachers, doctors, nurses, the judiciary and civil (...)
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