At the end of a two-month trial, far‑right leader Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros in public funds over an 11‑year period. However, stopping fascism requires mass counter mobilisation, writes John Mullen.
Europe
Green Left’s Mary Merkenich recently spoke with Daniel Kipka-Anton from German left party Die Linke.
The wave of student-led anti-government protests continues to grow in Serbia, sparked by an awning collapse at the Novi Sad train station that killed 15 people, reports Sofija Filipovic.
Russian anti-war socialist and political prisoner, Boris Kagarlitsky, sent the following article from the penal colony in Torzhok, Russia, where he is serving a five-year sentence for “justification of terrorism”. It has been translated by Dmitry Pozhidaev.
In the second part of our interview, Russian higher education trade unionist Pavel Kudyukin speaks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes and Serhii Shlyapnikov about the crackdown on universities and the campaign to free leftist academics and others jailed for their political views.
Pavel Kudyukin is co-chair of the University Solidarity trade union and a member of the Council of the Confederation of Labour of Russia. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes and Serhii Shlyapnikov spoke to Kudyukin about the situation of workers and trade unions in Russia.
In the second part of his interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, Ukrainian democratic socialist Denys Pilash speaks about the rising global axis of extreme reaction being spearheaded by the United States, Israel and Russia and the need for a renewed internationalism.
Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks to Ukrainian socialist Denys Pilash about the fallout in Ukraine from the meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as Trump’s proposed peace and rare earth mineral deals for Ukraine.
Russian socialists and anti-war activists have condemned the so-called “peace deal” for Ukraine being negotiated between Russia and the United States, warning it will only bring new wars. Federico Fuentes reports.
The Trump-Putin pact has plunged the European capitalist class’ post-war project into deep crisis — that of building an ultra-liberal European Union as US imperialism’s privileged ally and NATO’s European pillar, argues Daniel Tanuro.
Europe must not become a clone of the United States, argues Belgian socialist Peter Mertens. Instead, it must dare to chart a new course.
Die Linke (The Left), Germany’s democratic socialist party, staged a huge upset in the capital, Berlin, winning 21.8% of the city’s vote in the February 23 elections. Marcel Cartier looks behind the party’s revival and the challenge in winning working-class support away from the far right.
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