Europe

Marc Botenga, MEP for the Workers' Party of Belgium

The Workers’ Party of Belgium: 'At the European level we need European struggle'

Belgian Workers’ Party MEP Marc Botenga on building the Left in- and outside of parliament
Finland s President Sauli Niinisto meets with the new government led by Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, Helsinki, June 20, 2023

Finland’s cabinet of horrors

Pinja Vuorinen — After only two weeks in power, Finland’s new right-wing coalition faces neo-Nazi scandals and a mounting opposition to its austerian agenda that make it seem increasingly unlikely to last the full four-year election cycle.
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap) and his cabinet during the opening of the 167th Norwegian Parliament on 3rd October 2022

Strained alliances in Norwegian politics

Ingrid Wergeland — The first two years of Norway’s Labour Party/Centre Party coalition government have seen the challenges mount up, with debates about solidarity dominating at the international level, while domestic economic inequality has increased.
Hands of Ukraine

Russia’s war on Ukraine and the European lefts

Murray Smith — The war in Ukraine has cast a harsh light on the radical left in Europe, revealing the best and the worst.
Meloni

Europe: The far right is here to stay

David Broder — Figures like Italy’s Giorgia Meloni threaten to establish a new normal in European politics.
post fascism

Global post-fascism and the war in Ukraine

A conversation between Ilya Budraitskis and historian Enzo Traverso about the global rise of post-fascism, Putin’s Russia, and the war in Ukraine.
Russian rubles

Where is Russia hiding its money? Why EU authorities claim they can not find most of Russia’s foreign assets

Michael Pröbsting — Since Kyiv is hardly in a position to pay for reconstruction and arms purchases, Western governments would like to cover their costs with Russian money. At the same time, efforts to identify and freeze sanctioned Russian oligarch money are also going slowly and so far, only a total of $22 billion has been identified. How can this be explained?
Europe Japan

Europe and Japan: A call for independent imperialism – On an interesting article by a former editor of 'The Economist'

Michael Pröbsting - Several events in the past few years have provoked profound instability in relations between the imperialist Great Powers. It is therefore not surprising that ideologists and strategic thinkers of the ruling class are working hard to elaborate analyses and perspectives on how their respective Great Power can best respond to the challenges of the current period.
Anti-war protest in Lisbon. Photo from Feminist Antiwar Resistance / @t_alexx_t

The limits of western economic war with Russia and the failure of climate policy

Simon Pirani - A look at the economic war being waged alongside the military conflict, the resulting disruption of energy markets, and their place in the broader social and ecological crises shaking capital.
Soldiers from the armed forces of Ukraine

Means of destruction

By Wolfgang Streeck

European Network Solidarity with Ukraine and against war

We, collectives of social movements, trade unions, organis

Book: Contemporary European Left Party Movement

By Suksam Park

March 24, 2022 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Neoliberalism, which has been promoted for over 30 years, is an attack of the state and capital on labor and welfare. Precarious workers, youth unemployment, the climate crisis, and disaster capitalism symbolized by COVID-19, negate the legitimacy of this system. 

Although leftists recognize and argue that capital is inflicting pain on countless people, the left remains marginalized and fragmented in most countries.

If capitalism is in crisis and the people’s suffering is severe, why is the left marginalized? What efforts have leftists made, and what should be done? This book started with these questions, leading to a discussion about the existence, situation, and strategies of the current left.

As the title suggests, this book analyses the contemporary European left in its various shapes and situations since the 1990s. The ultimate purpose of the book is the growth of left forces.

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