Europe

Student protesters in Paris, October 6, 2026 (image via Wikimedia).

Students shut down French high schools in the face of class and racial oppression

Beginning in the banlieues, France’s student revolt has become national in scope, taking on economic and racial oppression as well as police brutality, writes Kevin B Anderson.
French student protest October 2026

Student uprising in France: An interview with Basile Copin from La France Insoumise Youth

Basile Copin discusses France’s student uprising, which beyond demands relating to education, has started to take a stand against neoliberal and far-right policies.
Demonstrators protesting Spain's housing and rental crisis, on Madrid's Puerta del Sol with the protest encampment visible in the background (2 October 2026)

Spain’s housing crisis explodes

María del Vigo and Miriam Bue detail how the eviction of Maricarmen in Madrid triggered housing protests and snap elections in Spain.
Elif Eralp, Die Linke's candidate for mayor, celebrates the party's Berlin election win on 20 September 2026.

Die Linke takes Berlin as the AfD sweeps East Germany

Die Linke’s historic win in Berlin state elections offers lessons in confronting the far-right, explain Elias König and Immanuel Nikelski.
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A divided island, a divided left: Iceland after the EU referendum

Iceland says No. But to what exactly? Matthias Kokorsch takes a look at the results of the EU accession referendum.
Who's going down? Election posters in front of the Parliament building in Stockholm ahead of the 2026 parliamentary election

Sweden’s 2026 election on a knife-edge

Sweden goes to the polls on 13 September. Duroyan Fertl looks at the prospects for the left bloc.
avoir commencer une grève: Résistances ouvrières à la désindustrialisation dans la France contemporaine

When workers resisted deindustrialisation

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 co-chairs Luigi Pantisano and Ines Schwerdtner during the Potsdam party conference, 20 June 2026

Germany’s Die Linke takes a stand

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.
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Geopolitical fractures and the Marxist critique of imperialism

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’.
Trump at NATO. Photograph by Shealah Craighead.

NATO and the North Atlantic left: A road to nowhere

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.
Cueta’s border fence in 2012. Photo by Mario Sánchez Bueno/Wikimedia Commons.

Why is Spain in Africa?

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?
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US-supervised globalisation, China’s rise and the imperialisms of our time: An interview with Benjamin Bürbaumer

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.