Europe

Andrew Burgin reports on the moves to found a European Eco-Socialist network The increasing ecological crisis and impending environmental catastrophe that we all face, is leading more on the left to recognise that we have to be both red and green in our politics – we have to be ecosocialist. One without the other is […] Read more »

Recently in Ukraine for an academic conference, Luke Cooper had the opportunity for a discussion with some of the participants in the ‘EuroMaidan’ movement, and to visit the encampment in Independence Square. In an attempt to understand the historical and social origins of the country’s mass protests, the following are some of his observations. Cultural […] Read more »

The corruption scandal surrounding Turkey’s AKP government and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan have developed into a full-fledged regime crisis, reports Mark Bergfeld. When the Gezi protests swept the Turkish state in June 2013 peoples from all ethnic, religious and political background articulated themselves and their demands through the social movement in an unprecedented way. Unfortunately […] Read more »

The Danish municipal and regional election on 19 November was a historic success for the Red-Green Alliance (RGA) writes Nikolaj Villumsen. Find here a first assessment by the RGA. We are now a nationwide party with representatives in all regions and corners of Denmark. With a raise in votes from the previous election in 2009 […] Read more »

On December 6 2013 the founding congress of the Hungarian Trade Union Confederation took place in Budapest, reports Karoly Gyorgy. Through the integration of the Autonomous Trade Union Confederation (ASZSZ), the National Confederation of Hungarian Trade Unions (MSZOSZ) and the Forum for the Co-operation of Trade Unions (SZEF) the largest interest representation organisation in Hungary […] Read more »

The latest developments in German politics should serve as a reality check for the ‘broad party’ advocates in this country, argues Ben Lewis For all the talk of the recent German elections being the most boring in memory, having been met with huge levels of apathy and indifference on the part of the population, the […] Read more »

Andrea Martini reports from Rome: Tens of thousands of workers, young people, migrants and activists from the environmental movements peacefully filled up Rome’s streets in two extraordinary days of mobilisation on the 18th and 19th of October. Autumn 2013 has been yet another autumn of crisis, of factory closures, of cuts and privatisation, of widespread […] Read more »

Merry Cross reports on a powerful meeting she attended: Yesterday I managed to track down and attend a really interesting meeting in Reading organised by the World Development Movement . It was about the terrible effects of the activities of the Cerrejon coal mining giant in Colombia but as importantly, about the British banks financing […] Read more »

They say that, in politics too, every cloud has a silver lining, and fortunately it can be reported that in the case of the German general elections the silver lining has a distinctly reddish shade, writes Thomas Kachel from Die Linke, Germany’s Left Party. But firstly, a look at the deep black cloud hanging over […] Read more »

Dave Kellaway from  Hackney Left Unity writes about recent developments in Italian politics.  Former prime minister Berlusconi has been twice convicted of fraud by the highest court in the land. He has called his plight the result of a coup d’etat by a left-dominated judiciary and has organised the collective pre-resignation of all his MPs […] Read more »