Europe
Who Is Behind the Reactionary Attack on the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine?
Since the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam on June 6, Russia and Ukraine have been playing a game of mutual recrimination (without proof). As with the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, no confidence can be placed in either side’s statements. Only one thing is certain: this is a disaster for civilians.
Philippe Alcoy
June 15, 2023Tracking, Deportations, Internment: European Countries Go on the Hunt for Migrants
On May 10, German chancellor Olaf Scholz strengthened Germany’s anti-migrant policy. This means more deportations, border patrol reinforcements, and economic agreements with sending countries. The new policy is being deployed throughout Europe.
Leo Stella
May 25, 2023Berlin Police Attack Jews and Palestinians Commemorating the Nakba
On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, the Berlin police banned all Palestinian demonstrations, and broke up a demonstration of Jewish Berliners in solidarity with Palestinians.
Nathaniel Flakin
May 22, 2023In France, There is No Return to Normal for Macron
Anger of the French people at Macron's pension reform is far from extinguished, despite moves by the Inter-Union bureaucracy which weakened the movement.
Juan Chingo
May 20, 2023The French Union Bureaucracy Tries to Bury the Movement Against the Pension Reform by Resuming “Social Dialogue”
After historic May 1st protests, the Inter-Union announced the following day that the next mobilization will take place on Tuesday, June 6. This distant date appears only to be conceived of as a way to pressure the National Assembly, which continues its strategy of defeat and prepares to bury the movement.
Nathan Erderof
May 12, 2023Eleven Shades of Skepticism and Electoralism: A Debate On the French Left and the Uprising
Our French comrades and members of our sister site and organization Révolution Permanente respond to a debate published in Contretemps and translated to English and published in Jacobin.
Juan Chingo
May 10, 2023Historic Strike at Tisséo: Toulouse Metro Blocked for the First Time Since 1992
On Tuesday, April 11, the transport workers of Toulouse, France, organized a massive strike after a call from the local coalition of unions. In a historic day of mobilization, the workers of Tisséo, the city’s transit company, united to block traffic on the Toulouse metro for the first time since 1992.
Alberta Nur
April 14, 2023No Faith in the Constitutional Council: The Movement in France Needs a Winning Strategy
While President Macron hoped that the mobilizations would weaken on their eleventh day, protests and strikes are holding strong across France. The need for a strategic shift has only become more urgent, as the Inter-Union places its hopes in an impossible reversal of the pension reform by the Constitutional Council, the highest constitutional authority in France.
Paul Morao
April 8, 2023Well-known French Activist Sentenced for “Defamation” of a Police Officer
Assa Traoré was sentenced for “defamation” against a police officer who accused her of lying during the investigation into her brother's Adama’s death in 2016. The Traoré family continues to suffer judicial harassment for its fight against police violence.
Erell Bleuen
April 8, 2023The European Strike Wave and the Potential of the Working Class
With its epicenter in France, a wave of strikes is developing in several European countries. As the working class takes to the streets against a cost of living crisis, anti-union attacks, and austerity, is there a common theme to this resurgence of class struggle?
Josefina L. Martínez
April 7, 2023