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, by FERNANDEZ Brais, KELLAWAY Dave
This week sees the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese “Carnation” Revolution that erupted in 1974 and was finally tamed in 1976 with the election of a government led by Soares from the Socialist Party(SP). The moderate SP consolidated many reforms won in the previous two years but also restored (…)
Ireland and Ukraine had similiar challenges in the period 1916 – 1923. Conor Kostick, Irish writer and historian based in Dublin and Vladyslav Starodubtsev, a social activist and a historian from Kyiv answer questions about the period and compare the experiences of the left in that era.
For (…)
, by MISHRA Pankaj
In March 1960, Konrad Adenauer, the chancellor of West Germany, met his Israeli counterpart, David Ben-Gurion, in New York. Eight years earlier, Germany had agreed to pay millions of marks in reparations to Israel, but the two countries had yet to establish diplomatic relations. Adenauer’s (…)
, by THOMAS Martin
At the start of World War Two, Eamon de Valera’s government in the 26 counties of Ireland banned public commemoration of World War One.
Commemoration had declined in the 1930s, according to Niamh Gallagher’s book Ireland and the Great War. It had also declined in England, as more and more (…)
, by KIZILAY Efsun
Fifty years ago, diverse groups of workers began to connect anti-racism and class struggle
Germany has seen a number of scandals and debates over the working conditions facing migrants from Eastern and Southern Europe in recent years. Hundreds of thousands travel to Germany each year to (…)
, by SLAČÁLEK Ondřej
Milan Kundera, who died this month, became known as a staunchly individualist critic of one-party Communist rule. Yet his work was also steeped in the rich earlier traditions of left-wing Czech literature, which grappled with the meaning of human freedom.
The death of Milan Kundera this July (…)
, by KOSTICK Conor
The war in Ukraine is a political earthquake. It has divided the left internationally. I am one of those who believes that the defeat of Russian imperialism by the people of Ukraine is vital for the future of humanity. Either the far-right and authoritarian governments are going to be (…)
, by MALIK Kenan
The novelist, who died last week, posed questions on identity that resonate to this day
The novelist, Milan Kundera once observed to fellow-writer Philip Roth, “teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question”. He feared that in a world in which people “prefer to judge rather than to (…)
, by GOLDBERG Marc
This is perhaps the worst book I’ve ever read. It has little narrative flow, doesn’t consist of a full review of the work undertaken by the Zionist movement against the Nazis, offers little to nothing in the way of context for the actions described by the author and is filled with contradictions (…)
, by ZABLOUDILOVÁ Tanya
THe TV series Volha (Volga) relies on our weariness with pop culture’s idealization of ’normalization’ (the conformist period after the Soviet-led invasion of 1968). Unfortunately, it only offers a counterpoint to cute retro comedies in which everyone is terrible. Even its simplification (…)
, by DURGAN Andy
Andreu Nin, leader of the POUM, was murdered by agents of Stalin during the Spanish Civil War. Nin’s legacy speaks to issues still relevant today, from Catalonia’s right to self-determination to the danger of the far right.
Andreu Nin was the leader of the Partido Obrero de Unificación (…)
, by Ó FLATHARTA Tomás
As fresh 2023 Irish state investigations continue into the death of a Tralee baby in 1984, we are not hearing the story of Joanne Hayes. Many readers must be wondering – Why?
A huge reason is that three police officers got the book of Joanne Hayes – “My Story” – destroyed. These Gardaí (…)
, by DE JONG Alex
Ninety years ago today, a fire engulfed the Reichstag in Berlin. The arsonist, Marinus van der Lubbe, was hoping to inspire resistance to fascism, but the Nazis used the fire as a pretext to impose a regime of violent terror against the German left.
Ninety years ago today, on February 27, (…)
, by ANGLO Brian
Catalonia is a major international tourist destination with enticing options for almost all tastes and most pockets, so it’s likely that quite a few people on the left will have been there already or may go there in the future. If you are one of these, then this book is certain to enrich your (…)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
For the international left, Putin’s war against Ukraine started like the First World War and it is possible that it will end like it. Indeed, from the very first day, both wars have caused the splintering of the international left and its division into two increasingly divergent, opposing and (…)
, by TAMAS G M
’68 wasn’t just in Prague, but the whole world, in Paris, West Berlin, Berkeley and Chicago, Mexico and everywhere. The fact that today, fifty-three years later it’s still being discussed is only proof of how remarkable it was. – Hungarian philosopher G. M. Tamás in conversation.
András (…)
, by PATOČKOVÁ Jana
This new documentary series proves that the personal is indeed political. In eight short episodes, sociologist Kateřina Lišková guides us through topics that we often tend to perceive as something purely intimate.
The Chronicle of Orgasm is an eight-part documentary series produced by (…)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
At least during the interwar period, when there was a confrontation between the left and the fascists, it was always the fascists who won. And unfortunately, most of the time without meeting a real resistance. However, there has been one important exception. That of the Italian revolutionary (…)
On the 50th anniversary of the massacre of innocent civil rights protestors in Derry, Joseph Healy remembers 50 years of British injustice in Ireland.
I went with Anger at my heel Through Bogside of the bitter zeal Jesus pity! - on a day Of cold and drizzle and decay. A month had (…)
, by RIDDELL John
The text that follows will be included in a new collection, Lenin’s Comintern Revisited, scheduled for publication in 2022.
By John Riddell: On 11 January 1923, France and Belgium sent their armies to occupy the Ruhr region, the industrial heartland of Germany. The invaders’ stated goal was to (…)
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