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That Other War: Open Letter About Ukraine to Progressives in Congress
It’s long past time that you spoke up for genuine diplomacy to bring an end to the horrible war and human suffering in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion was criminal. Now, the war is stalemated and neither...
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The ‘Absolute Right’ To Commit War Crimes? Gaza, Israel And Labour ‘Opposition’
The attacks by Hamas fighters in southern Israel on 7 October, and the Israeli air attacks on Gaza that have followed, and now the unfolding humanitarian disaster there, once again expose fundamental...
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Emmanuel Macron’s Government Is Using the War in Gaza to Stifle Dissent at Home
It’s a partial victory for France’s Palestine solidarity movement. On Wednesday, the State Council — France’s highest administrative court — rejected Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin’s blanket ban on...
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Germany Shifts to the Right
In two recent state elections – Bavaria and Hessen – voters took a strong turn toward the radical right. Voters in the southern state of Bavaria (population: 13 million), and in Hessen (6.3 million),...
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Geopolitics, The Imperial System and Socialist Anti-Imperialism
Claudio Katz is a professor of economics at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a member of Economists of the Left. He is also the author of various articles and books on contemporary...
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Pro-Palestinian Protests Are Erupting From Karachi to London
In the last few days, hundreds of thousands of ordinary people have taken to the streets demanding an end to the murderous Israeli onslaught against the people of Gaza, which had claimed over five...
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Germany’s Ex-Leader Says the US Stopped Ukraine From Signing a Peace Deal...
In a much-cited interview, ex-German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has stated that a compromise peace to end the war in Ukraine was well within reach when negotiators met in Istanbul last spring. This...
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Germany Bans Public Grieving and Solidarity With Palestine
Germany is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian community, with roughly 80,000 Palestinians living in the country. For years, German authorities have tried to stifle Palestinian activism in the...
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Celtic Football Supporters Defy Clampdown to Show Solidarity With...
Celtic football supporters staged a show of mass solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, defying sanctions by club authorities and threats of financial penalties by Europe’s football governing body,...
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France’s Long Legacy of Colonialism Lives on in Sahel Crisis
This fall, the military junta in Niger compelled France to agree to withdraw its ambassador and 1,500 soldiers from the country. The decision followed an ultimatum from Nigerien authorities and a wave...
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Tumultuous Times for the Left in Europe
LAST weekend saw big upsets on the left in France and Germany. The economic crisis that goes with Europe’s submission to the US strategy of tension with Russia — with its openly proclaimed objective of...
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Poland: Women, Youth Mobilise in Election to Defeat Reaction
Poland’s October 15 parliamentary elections have ended the eight-year rule of the incumbent Law and Justice (PiS) party and the United Right (ZP) political alliance centred on it. The election had the...
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The New Cold War in the Arctic
In the spring of 1953, when Regina Kristiansen was 14, she and her family were forced to leave their village of Uummannaq in northwestern Greenland, hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle. At the...
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We Should Look to Vienna for Answers to Our Housing Crisis
At the official opening of the legendary Karl-Marx-Hof municipal housing complex on October 12, 1930, Vienna mayor Karl Seitz said, “When we are no longer here, these stones will speak for us.” And...
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Israel, Ukraine, the Border: What’s in Biden’s $105 Billion Military Bill
Originally in National Priorities Project Last week, the White House released President Biden’s request for $105 billion in military and related aid related to wars ongoing in Ukraine, Gaza, and wars...
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France’s Trial of “Left-Wing Terrorists” Is a Farce
If you were looking for a history of far-left political violence in Europe, you would have done well to sit in at the Paris courthouse last Wednesday. In his closing remarks for the so-called December...
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Europe Agonizes In Gaza
Europe is a small corner of a vast continent called Eurasia stretching from Cape Roca to Cape Dezhnyov – a vast continent with a very rich history. In that small corner, what we call the Iberian...
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Israel-Palestine War: Starmer’s Gaza Stance Has Unmasked British Democracy
If democracy hinges on the availability of meaningful political choices, there can be few politicians who have done more to destroy British democracy than Keir Starmer. He has spent most of his three...
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Growing Palestine Solidarity Protests Make Silence On Israel’s Crimes...
Since Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, thousands have protested Dutch complicity & silence. In the lead up to upcoming elections progressive parties are avoiding taking a position, but the solidarity...
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Will The UK Press Israel Over Illegal Settlers’ Reign Of Terror In The West...
It is the same story in every village in the South Hebron Hills. Israeli settlers are seizing livestock, wrecking water tanks, smashing solar panels, bulldozing outbuildings and destroying the olive...
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