Europe

Die Linke’s historic win in Berlin state elections offers lessons in confronting the far-right, explain Elias König and Immanuel Nikelski.

Iceland says No. But to what exactly? Matthias Kokorsch takes a look at the results of the EU accession referendum.

Sweden goes to the polls on 13 September. Duroyan Fertl looks at the prospects for the left bloc.

Romain Castellesi discusses the nature of struggles against deindustrialisation in France and the importance of working class history and memory in the face of economic crisis.

Die Linke surges past the Social Democratic Party of Germany in polls as it battles austerity and the far-right — and names the genocide in Gaza, writes Ruairi Casey.

Alex Callinicos shows how the Marxist critique of imperialism can encompass aspects of the present conjuncture that liberalism and realism cannot account for, above all, the genocide in Gaza and fracturing of the ‘global West’.

Jana Silverman and Jaime Caro look at alternatives socialists on both sides of the Atlantic can propose to promote geopolitical stability in the face of the global polycrisis.

Before making Ceuta evidence in an argument about Palestine, NATO, or regional diplomacy, Nashwa Lina Khan says we should first ask the more immediate question: Why is Spain in Africa?

Benjamin Bürbaumer discusses why capitalism leads great powers to resort to coercion, how Western Europe became integrated into US capitalism, and whether China could displace a declining US with a new Sino-centred capitalism.

While Ukraine’s political mainstream will likely remain anchored in a right-liberal paradigm for the foreseeable future, the potential for grassroots mobilization and incremental change is real, says Olena Tkalich.

Forced emigration and political repression are two sides of the same coin: a policy that deprives people of any right to a future, argue the al-Mounadila Current.

Pelle Dragsted explains how the Danish socialist party Enhedslisten won concessions from the country’s new government coalition.