Place: Western Europe
“They’re different fights for different things,” says the young woman. “But we’re fighting against the same system.”
Students wore their feelings on their faces, anger about the failure of the government to take care of their education, anxiety about the police, joy in carrying out their massive protests.
Éloise, a graduate student in contemporary history working on environmental issues, said, “As a graduate student, I’m also a teacher, and I’m here for my students.
What is the significance of the far-right electoral victory of AfD in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt?
Democracy thwarted, democracy suspended, democracy gutted: a new political era is dawning in Italy, the United States, and also in France. The piece-by-piece construction of an absolutist governmental sovereignty, which is taking hold by methodically disarming each of the powers that could stand in its way.
Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed French-Iranian author, artist, and filmmaker whose groundbreaking graphic memoir Persepolis transformed the world’s understanding of Iran and its people, has died at the age of
A critique of the Left’s unconditional solidarity with ruling Kurdish parties, and a call for class-based solidarity that sides with the working class for a democratic state that guarantees equal rights for all.
The road to the rights and freedoms of the Kurdish people runs through the rights and freedoms of their Arab, Turkish, Syrian, and Iranian neighbors, in a state that does not question its citizens about their origins, that guarantees them bread and freedom, and that respects their human dignity.
A living, relevant left must learn to listen to the voice of the oppressed wherever it speaks—not only when it matches familiar Western narratives. It needs to offer a true emancipatory vision and not just slogans.
We offer our support and full solidarity to Prof. Joseph Daher who is facing the loss of his job for his Palestine activism.
Shannon Ikebe analyzes the far-right success across Europe and the complicity of the capitalist class in it, as well as the rise of the French left as an anti-fascist force.
Nedjib Sidi Moussa analyzes contrasting reception of Richard Wright’s work in the French left, including criticism among the Communists and support among the Socialists.
Hank Kennedy reviews Wilson and Keko’s Freedom Shall Prevail, a comic book on the life of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish freedom struggle.
Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ignited violence in Amsterdam, but the far-right is victimizing them to repress Palestine solidarity.
The past week of antifascist mobilisation in Britain has seen off the immediate threat, but we need to construct a counter-hegemonic force that puts an end to the cycle of state racism and far-right violence.
Udi Raz, a Jewish anti-Zionist activist in Berlin, discusses the German state repression of the Palestinian solidarity movement under the pretense of fighting antisemitism.
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