Europe

Liz Lawrence explores the direction of the Labour government and what remains of the Labour Left. She also discusses pensioners’ poverty and resistance, and how ecosocialists should respond.

Áron Rossman-Kiss — The EU was crucial to Viktor Orbán’s rise — now, he wants to remake it in his own image.

Loren Balhorn — For the first time since the defeat of the Third Reich, a far-right party has won a state-wide election, indicating a profound level of alienation vis-à-vis the political establishment among a wide swathe of the electorate.

Jerry Harris — Some see multi-polarity as a new stage of non-alignment, and even the creation of an anti-imperialist bloc. But the economic and political elites of the Global South are too deeply tied to transnational capitalism to be truly independent.

Anti*Capitalist Resistance statement on far-right violence sweeping Britain and Northern Ireland

Daria Saburova — In April-May 2024, tens of thousands of Georgians took to the streets to protest against the new "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence," which was finally passed by the parliament on May 28th, overturning the presidential veto.

Boris Kagarlitsky — The influence of the far right has kept growing in precisely the degree to which the left has retreated from its previous class politics.

Akash Bhattacharya — As the Indian people mounted a strong fightback against Hindutva/corporate rule of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the political battle between the far-right and democratic forces entered a new phase in Europe.

Walden Bello — Two recent events have shattered complacency about the specter of a fascist takeover globally that a number of us have been warning about for some time now.

Pablo Stefanoni looks at the recent European and French elections — in which the former saw a strong showing for the far right while the latter resulted in a win for the broad left — and what it means for both sides.

Gilbert Achcar — It is one of the cruel ironies of history that those who claim to speak on behalf of the victims of Nazi genocide are the perpetrators of the most horrific campaign of extermination in the history of contemporary settler colonialism.

Roger Martelli — It is to the credit of all components of the French left, without exception, that it did everything possible to defeat the far right. But it should not draw the conclusion that it now holds all the cards.