Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by FERNANDEZ Brais
At the end of May, following a right-wing surge in the Spanish regional and municipal elections, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez – leader of the centre-left PSOE – announced that the country would soon return to the polls. A snap general election would decide whether Spain would be governed by a (...)
, par SARTZEKIS Andreas
Greece has suffered terrible fires this summer. They killed at least 26 people, including at least 20 refugees, shepherds and two Canadair pilots, ravaged forests and crops, burnt hundreds of animals, hundreds of houses and several businesses, and even military barracks.
In July, the fires (...)
, by ŠIPKA Magdaléna
According to Czech Twitter, summer festivals are threatened by the idea of anti-capitalism. In fact, the opposite threatens us: capitalism destroying nature and restricting human freedom. Festival joy should be the harbinger of a better world.
The organisers of Ostrava Pride claim to be an (...)
, by MONTI Germano
On 25 July, Moscow security forces arrested the sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, a well-known Russian Marxist intellectual who has never hidden his opposition to what the Russians are forced to call ’special military operation’. Kagarlitsky’s release was also demanded by an appeal signed by many (...)
, by SLAČÁLEK Ondřej
Anti-Russian hatred is a weapon that serves the current Russian government - and at the same time strips us of our humanity. The recent antics of the Czech art group Ztohoven are the latest example of this.
The art group Ztohoven has produced stickers with an original motif: a turd in the (...)
, by PASTOR Jaime
The following is an initial assessment of the results of the Spanish state elections held on Sunday, July 23. We hope that others will follow, both at the national level and in the various territories, to take the pulse of the political situation.
The “blue summer” promised by Feijóo has (...)
, by SVENSSON Anders
The leadership of the Left Party has acted very strangely on the NATO issue. Instead of conducting public opinion work against NATO, they have in practice laid themselves flat for the government and the Social Democrats’ line on the issue. The argumentation has been zero or, in cases where it (...)
, by McLAUGHLIN Dan
Dan McLaughlin and Conor Gallagher have written a fine tribute to Finbar Cafferkey. When Russia’s genocidal imperialist invasion of Ukraine is over – and hopefully is defeated – Finbar Cafferkey will deserve to be honoured as an Irish fighter who fought imperialist war at home and abroad. (...)
, by KERR Gregor
Due to time constraints I didn’t get an opportunity to deliver my prepared speech at the Irish Left With Ukraine Fringe Meeting at the ICTU Conference yesterday evening. If you get a chance to listen to the 3 fabulous Ukrainian speakers, you will realise that my speech wasn’t missed!
If I (...)
, by GRAND Arthur, NAGEL Paul
What do anarchists in Germany think about the war in Ukraine? Can the left in Western and Eastern Europe work together? Is it possible to fight far-right trends through language? Paul Nagel, a Sorbian activist and musician from Germany, shares his thoughts
Many left groups around the world (...)
, by KULBACZEWSKA-FIGAT Małgorzata
This month, Poland’s liberal opposition mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to protest the ruling party’s attacks on the rule of law. But it’s less clear that it’s winning over the government’s supporters, who remain wedded to its social programs.
On June 4, hundreds of thousands of (...)
, by CZAJKOWSKI Jan
After 16 months of full scale war, Internationalen, the weekly newspaper of Socialistisk Politik (Socialist Politics, SP) has more or less ceased its coverage of Ukraine. A discussion of the issues involved or of the standpoints of the organization has taken is not desired. I myself have been (...)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
Unfortunately, the end of Berlusconi does not mean the end of the model of (bourgeois) politics that he invented and implemented. Why not? Because Berlusconi has succeeded in setting an example by shaping a whole ’generation’ of extremely neo-liberal and hyper-reactionary far-right politicians (...)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
This article, by Dave Kellaway critically examines the legacy of Silvio Berlusconi, the controversial former Prime Minister of Italy, highlighting his numerous legal battles, alleged mafia connections, and media empire, while questioning the reverence shown towards him on Italian television (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We, the undersigned representatives of the Nordic green left, declare our solidarity with the rightful resistance of the Ukrainian people and emphasise the sole responsibility of the Russian regime for initiating this illegal invasion, escalating it to the point of risking nuclear war, and (...)
, by OPPENHEIM Ana
He’s unbearable.
“We could all feel we were participating in something huge and unprecedented. I actually burst into tears as we were approaching a meet-up point. That initial moment was unforgettable.”
Dorota, 41, is an NGO worker from Warsaw, Poland. She was one of the estimated half a (...)
, by GREGORY Richard
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 (...)
, by FERNANDEZ Brais
The defeat of the left-wing bloc in the municipal and regional elections on 28 May has unleashed a political earthquake. The ruling Partido Socialista Obrero Español – PSOE or Spanish Socialist Workers Party – lost six of the eight autonomous communities in which it governed. Now, the (...)
, by JOSEF Bianca
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 (...)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
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 (...)
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