Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by NOVAK Adam
The Stop ReArm Europe Network represents a crucial new effort to challenge the EU’s unprecedented militarisation agenda. Bringing together anti-war organisations, think tanks, and progressive movements primarily from the western side of the EU, the network confronts a fundamental question: How (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
A month after sectarian violence erupted on Syria’s coast, the Syrian state has yet to recognise the importance of transitional justice, says Joseph Daher.
The new ruling authorities are following in the footsteps of the former Assad regime, continuing to use sectarian policies and practices (…)
, by Anticapitalistas
The drums of war are already generating a deafening din. Governments, companies and the media are united in repeating in unison warmongering slogans reminiscent of the turbulent beginnings of the 20th century. Defend Europe, defend its values, boost the military industry and even bring back (…)
, by ZELLER Christian
The looming Trump-Putin partition of Ukraine has divided European public opinion, including among friends of Ukraine. Here Chris Zeller takes issue with Hanna Perekhoda’s recently analysis of European defence and solidarity.
Dear Hanna,
I understand your arguments. I share your argument that (…)
, by FIGUEIRA Madalena, MOURA BORGES Daniel
The drums of war are beating and European leaders are calling for more spending on weapons, but isn’t Europe already hostage to large defence expenditures?
“Europe must reduce its Welfare State to build a War State.” This is Janan Ganesh’s proposal for the European economy defended in a (…)
, by PEREKHODA Hanna
The European Parliament has voted on the resolution that sets the line on defence and rearmament. The harshest criticism of the European Commission’s resolution on defence and rearmament comes from the Left political group. Among them is Manon Aubry (France Insoumise), who denounces, “You find (…)
, by Regards.fr
To five politicians, we posed the following question: what are your thoughts on European defence at a time when fascism is rising across the continent and the number of countries governed by the far right in the European Union is increasing?
Aurélien Saintoul, LFI MP, member of the French (…)
, by PEREKHODA Hanna
With the United States abandoning Ukraine, a country that now stands as the last line of defense for European security, the EU has no choice but to act decisively. Ensuring its own protection is no longer a matter of debate—it is an undeniable necessity. The real question now, particularly for (…)
, by MORTÁGUA Mariana
Europe won’t save itself by trading the welfare state for weapons, says the leader of Portugal’s Left Block. Waging war in the name of democracy whilst letting democracy die is a mistake that future generations will not forgive today’s decision-makers for.
In the last month, we saw Elon Musk, (…)
, by BUDRAITSKIS Ilya, YUDIN Grigory
What could lasting peace in Europe look like from a leftist perspective? And what principles could form the foundation for a fair European security architecture? In their report, social researchers Grigory Yudin and Ilya Budraytskis propose answers to these pressing questions.
Introduction (…)
, by STREET Dale
For the past ten years Britain’s Stop the War Coalition’s coverage of Ukraine has been a succession of political and factual inaccuracies. We print below the introduction to a new pamphlet by Dale Street that explores this tavesty of internationalism.
The STW Coalition dismissed the mass (…)
, by ZELLER Christian
On 6 June, the Washington Post again triggered all kinds of speculation with the publication of an exposé story on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. The journalists “revealed” without providing substantial evidence that a Ukrainian commando destroyed the pipelines on 26 September 2022. (…)
, by ZELLER Christian
Putin’s armies are launching another major offensive, bombing cities and destroying social infrastructure in Ukraine, shelling settlements with thermobaric vacuum missiles. In the east of the country they have razed Soledar and large parts of Bachmut to the ground and are advancing towards the (…)
, by BOS Willem
Kees Stad published a response to my earlier piece ’Why I don’t sign the call of ’Stop Arms Trade’’ under the title ’Chess with your life’ on Konfrontation. Below is my response as it appeared on Konfrontation.
Konfrontation was founded at the time (1991) by people from different social (…)
, by HINMAN Pip
Stop Wapenhandel (Stop the Arms Trade) and The Transnational Institute (TNI) co-produced an important dossier in November that details the enormous funds the West is spending on a new arms race.
Smokescreen: How states are using the war in Ukraine to drive a new arms race is a detailed (…)
, by ZELLER Christian
The appeal “Stop the war”, initiated by parts of the Left Party, sees only a great power conflict in the war in Ukraine; it does not even perceive the Ukrainian population as acting subjects.
Russian troops are bombing cities, killing people incessantly and deliberately destroying civilian (…)
, by KLEIN Thomas
Will Ukraine solidarity lead to identification with NATO policy or a new peace movement?
The criminal invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia seems to have deactivated any historical memory and common sensibility around the politics of peace. Critical reflection on Russia’s aims and NATO’s (…)
, by DODOV Stanislav
As the reactions to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have shown, Bulgaria is not ready for a new anti-war movement, despite the urgency of the task. The majority of people with some access to the public space act as if the year were not 2022, but the Soviet Union had just collapsed yesterday, as if (…)
, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine
Social Movement (Ukraine) reports: The representatives of the Left Party were among the first to organize street shares of solidarity with Ukraine. Left Party representatives unanimously condemned the aggression and opposed the exit of Russian troops, continued to demand tougher sanctions, (…)
, by Civic activists
Another war in Europe no longer seems improbable or unlikely. For some people of the continent, it has been a reality already in Ukraine, in Georgia, in Nagorno Karabakh and on the Turkish-Syrian border. So are the military build ups and threats of full scale warfare.
European security (…)
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