Europe

Murray Smith comments on the recent German elections and what they mean for Die Linke. Once the immediate euphoria – for those that way inclined – had dissipated, it very quickly became apparent that the victory of Angela Merkel and the CDU in the German elections, obtained very largely at the expense of the CDU’s […] Read more »

Sissy Velissariou reports on the devastating attacks being inflicted on higher education in Greece. For at least the past four years the public and democratic university has been systematically undermined by the neoliberal governments through its institutional liquidation, that has destroyed the collective and democratically elected academic bodies, predominantly by its economic strangulation. At the […] Read more »

When the left alternative goes unvoiced, the real choices unposed, democracy is drained of content, writes Mike Marqusee. That’s why we need a new party of the left. Read more »

The first time that I actively followed the German elections was in 1998, says Mark Bergfeld. I was eleven years old. I was glued to the television following the debates and speeches by politicians. One politician struck me particularly: Gregor Gysi. My eleven-year old self went back to school the following day and proudly proclaimed […] Read more »

Electoral revolts have rocked Europe for the last two-and-a-half years, says Mark Bergfeld. Since the outbreak of the debt crisis, 17 national governments in the European Union have collapsed or been voted out of power – 12 were members of the Eurozone. The German elections taking place in a week’s time are a different game. […] Read more »

Anti-fascist and anti-racist activists in Greece (including Petros Constantinou, seen speaking here) have been charged under Greece’s “anti-terror” laws – for speaking out against the recent police killings of two Albanian escaped prisoners. Tell the Greek government to drop the charges now, and to stop the persecution of anti-fascist and anti-racist activists. How you can […] Read more »

A contribution to European debate by the economists Daniel Albarracín, Nacho Álvarez and Bibiana Medialdea from Spain, Francisco Louçã and Mariana Mortagua from Portugal, Stavros Tombazos from Cyprus, Giorgos Galanis and Ozlem Onaran from Britain and  Michel Husson from France. Europe is sinking into crisis and social regression under the pressure of austerity, recession and […] Read more »

Sustaining the planet, preparing the future, building another world … this daunting task for current generations is also a promising manifestation of care for the future of humankind and of nature, says Francine Mestrum from the Global Social Justice Network. We are living in a multiple, civilizational crisis which forces us to reflect on our […] Read more »

Interview with Dimitris Psarras, the author of the Greek ‘Black Book of Chrysi Avghi’ (Golden Dawn), conducted and translated from Greek to French by Eleni Varikas and Michael Löwy and published at Mediapart. 1. In a few words could you describe the origins of Greece’s neo-Nazi organisation Chrysi Avghi (CA), Golden Dawn?  Ever since the founding […] Read more »

This Autumn will see a major conference in London take place on the issue of Ireland, reports Jayne Fisher. The conference on 19 October is hosted by Sinn Fein in order to provoke some serious discussion around the issue, ‘Towards a New Ireland’, looking at the future relationship between Britain and Ireland. It is something […] Read more »