Europe
Black Lives Matter in Paris: Tens of Thousands Protest Police Brutality for Second Week
In solidarity with uprisings across the United States, protesters returned to the streets of Paris and other French cities this Saturday to demonstrate against racist police terror. Mobilizations continued throughout the day amid police protests and right-wing demonstrations.
Madeleine Freeman
June 14, 2020200,000 People Take to the Streets Against Racism in Germany
On Saturday, 200,000 mostly young people gathered in over 20 cities in Germany to protest against state racism and the murder of George Floyd. In Munich alone, 30,000 people joined demonstrations. In Hamburg and Berlin, demonstrators were violently attacked by the police.
Suphi Toprak
June 8, 202040,000 People Flood the Streets of Paris in Solidarity with George Floyd
In Paris, tens of thousands of people participated in a demonstration in solidarity with George Floyd. Taking up the same slogans as protesters in the United States, demonstrators defied restrictions on large gatherings to denounce police brutality at the hands of the French state. This show of global unity sends protesters in the U.S. a clear message: they are not alone.
Madeleine Freeman
June 5, 2020Why People in Germany Are Protesting Against Racist Police Violence Too
After the murder of George Floyd, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in different German cities as well. This is not just about solidarity with demonstrations on the other side of the Atlantic. This is about racist police violence in Germany.
Liam Figueroa
June 5, 2020Greek Protesters Set U.S. Embassy on Fire At Protest for George Floyd
Solidarity protests against the murder of George Floyd spread to Athens where protesters demonstrated and threw Molotov Cocktails at the U.S. embassy.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
June 4, 2020Why Is the Green Party Attempting to Privatize Berlin’s Public Transport?
If we want to reduce carbon emissions, we need to make public transport free. But the transport minister in Berlin, a member of the Green Party, is doing exactly the opposite.
Nathaniel Flakin
May 31, 2020Workers and Activists Around the World Protest the Firing of French Railway Worker Éric Bezou
Solidarity for fired railway union activist Éric Bezou is coming in from many political and social personalities in France and internationally. In the midst of the pandemic, France’s Ministry of Labor is enabling his unfair dismissal.
IzquierdaDiario.es
May 28, 2020The Coronavirus in Capitalist Russia
As the rest of the world continues to battle the coronavirus, the Russian government has not only failed to effectively battle the emergency but has attempted to actively ignore it and the plight of its citizens.
Dima Gonskiy
May 15, 2020Gaëtan Gracia: We’re Going to Have to Fight for Our Own World after the Pandemic
In a speech given at the international rally of the Trotskyist Fraction this May Day, Gaëtan Gracia, a militant worker and member of the Revolutionary Communist Current (CCR), denounces the French state’s efforts to repress workers’ actions to combat the public health and economic crises and the role French imperialism has played in withholding crucial medical supplies from the African countries they exploit and oppress.
Left Voice
May 14, 2020Scilla Di Pietro: Workers Have Turned Anger Into Struggle
In a speech given at the international rally of the Trotskyist Fraction this May Day, Scilla Di Pietro, a food service worker and member of the Revolutionary International Fraction (FIR), speaks about how years of neoliberal austerity measures at the hands of the EU and the Italian government has turned the coronavirus pandemic into widespread devastation. She talks about how the efforts and struggles of workers has been central to counterposing the false unity broadcast by the government and capitalists.
Scilla Di Pietro
May 12, 2020