Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Independent Left
Independent Left condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine; Putin’s war is an imperialist adventure. We support the demand for complete withdrawal of Russian forces from all of Ukraine.
We support the right of the Ukrainian people to resist the Russian invasion by all means necessary – armed (…)
, by RIEXINGER Bernd
The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military is an act of aggression that causes untold suffering for the Ukrainian population and cannot be justified by anything. The bloodshed also affects Russian soldiers and the population in Russia will have to pay bitterly for the war costs. Both the (…)
, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine
The “Left Club” appealed to the European Commission to take over the maintenance of the Ukrainian debt to the European Central Bank.
“Without a decisive response from the European Union to the invasion of Russia, after Ukraine, the next in line will be Chisinov, after Chisinov - the Baltic (…)
, by Éirígí
Éirígí is a left wing split from Sinn Féin. . Árd Fheis means Annual Conference. Each year, Éirígí activists adopt a range of motions at Ard Fheis.
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On Saturday morning, at Ard Fheis 2022, an emergency motion relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unanimously (…)
, by STAM Jaap
Man with the wild hair led the way in protest against the Vietnam War.
Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, Flying Doctors, Oxfam Novib, the Netherlands-Vietnam Medical Committee, which continues to support people who need help as a result of the Vietnam War; Ariëla Legman, who entered (…)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway reviews David Broder’s book: The Rebirth of Italian Communism, 1943-44 (Palgrave Macmillan 2021)
This is the story of several thousand resistance fighters in Rome who were organised as the Movement Communists of Italy (MCd’I), sometimes better known by the name of their (…)
, by Anti*Capitalist Resistance activists
Britain today: Perspectives and Tasks for ACR. A paper agreed at the Anti*Capitalist Resistance 2021 member conference.
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What are the Tories up to?
The UK government at Westminster is dishing out attack after attack on our class with very little scrutiny, as opposition in (…)
, par MEEHAN John
This blog offers two very good quotations and an illustration to act as a helpful political and personal guide. Origin of the quotations ? I do not personally know the authors. I wish to thank a Greek comrade, Kostas Skordoulis, who started the relevant Facebook discussion. The cartoon is just (…)
, by CABRERIZO Lorena
Under the theme of “Making Revolution Possible: Organise to Advance”, the Third Congress of Anticapitalistas, scheduled for 2020 and postponed due to the pandemic, was held on December 11 and 12, 2021.
“For the practical forces unleashed in a given historical moment to be effective and (…)
, by DERWIN Des
We can all agree that a raft of things are required that the system is reluctant to give and that we must campaign for: vaccine justice towards the global south, wage support for closed jobs, real ventilation in workplaces, an end to deforestation and desertification and intensive farming (…)
, by SPS
Socialist Party Scotland (SPS) statement.
At its conference on 4 December, Solidarity – Scotland’s Socialist Movement voted to effectively dissolve as a party. This followed a recommendation from its NEC, which includes Tommy Sheridan. Solidarity is now deregistered and can no longer stand in (…)
, by ARIAN Max
Maarten van Dullemen was editor abroad of De Groene Amsterdammer for over ten years, from 1969 to 1980. He opened the magazine to news from other parts of the world. Later he imported very beautiful Vietnamese pottery.
Our world did not revolve around the Sarphatistraat in Amsterdam [This (…)
, by KRIVINE Hubert, SAMARY Catherine
It was with sadness that we learned of the death of Petr Uhl at the age of 80 on 1 December 2021, after a long illness. Like the Polish Marxist activists Kuron and Modzelevski in the mid-1960s, Petr Uhl in Czechoslovakia embodied for us in the heart of the Prague Spring in 1968 the living (…)
, by URBAN CRESPO Miguel
Sean Da Ros, Wikimedia Commons
The courage to leave, the fear of arriving It rains in the canal The current shows the way to the sea Copenhagen, Vetusta Morla
2015, which began with the historic victory of Syriza in Greece, seemed to herald winds of change in Europe from the south. A new (…)
, by BALHORN Loren
In September’s German election, the socialist Die Linke party slumped to under 5 percent support. If the Left is to recover, it needs to show that it’s still on the side of disenfranchised working-class voters.
There’s no sense putting lipstick on a pig: the German federal election, in which (…)
, by Marx21
The following statement by the Marx21 network, published on September 28 [[https://www.marx21.de/die-linke-wie-weiter-nach-dem-wahldebakel], makes the case that the chief factor in Die Linke’s defeat was its decision to bet the house on an electoral front with the SPD and the Greens in the hopes (…)
, by FINN Daniel
Trotskyism has always been a movement of the margins, and not just in the sense that its organizations have usually remained in the shadow of the labour movement’s big battalions. In the few cases where Trotskyist parties have come to play a significant role, it has often been at some remove (…)
, by MEEHAN John, Socialist Democracy (Ireland)
We are saddened to learn Rayner Lysaght has passed. Rayner Lysaght was a lifelong revolutionary Marxist, historian and author. He edited and introduced the IIRE Notebook “October Readings: The development of the concept of Permanent Revolution’’. Our thoughts go out to his friends, family and (…)
, by European Municipalist Network, RUSHTON Steve
But, as this short history of Možemo! shows, the platform is far from being a new kid on the block
The residents of Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, voted for change in May, turning away from a regime that had held power since 2000, whose mayor had been deeply entangled in corruption and (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
At many points throughout its long history, the labor movement has confronted a choice: either support nationalism, “national defense,” and war, or fight for internationalism: “Proletarians of all countries unite!” This fateful choice has determined the course of history at many decisive (…)
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