Geography Archives: Europe

Chris Bambery explores the life and work of Latvian Bolshevik, Asja Lācis.

Every year, we are told the latest summer of climate disaster will finally be a wake-up call.

For far too long environmental issues have been seen as the preserve of the middle classes, but as the recent heatwave shows, climate change impacts us all, and the poor and most vulnerable suffer the most, finds Terina Hine.

If you want to know how many lives our rulers are willing to sacrifice to defend the fossil fuel industry, you could start by looking at Europe.

The dictionary tells us ‘pragmatic’ means: ‘dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations’.

Today, there is growing recognition of the German Democratic Republic’s (DDR) building-integrated art and the type of society rooted in education, dignity, and imagination of the working class the DDR sought to build.

Ecological science turned toward struggle must be intimately associated with the class struggle.

On 4 July, the 100th anniversary of the Nazi Party’s second conference in the German state of Thuringia, the far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) held its federal party conference in a neighbouring city in the same state.

“It is the most painful manifestation of a climate emergency that is making… wildfires more voracious and heatwaves more frequent, and as a result our land more vulnerable,” said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Parliamentarians visit the latest Ulm5 trial.

Many people in Britain are hoping that Andy Burnham will instigate the changes needed to push back against Reform, but as Lewis Nielsen explains, his more human face does not represent a break from Starmerisim.

Urgent action is required to stem the growing tide of misogynistic abuse and sexual violence against women, writes Terina Hine.

In less than two months, Europe has been hit by three heatwaves that are exceptional in terms of their early onset, intensity, duration and geographical extent.

“This heatwave is a dress rehearsal… they are getting more frequent, stronger and lasting longer. Every summer we fail to prepare for them is a summer we pay for in lives.”

The thirtieth anniversary of the 1996 election is therefore not merely a historical commemoration.

Apolinario Mabini is the most neglected or ignored figure in the pantheon of heroes of the revolution against Spain and the United States.

The medievalist scholar was captured by the Gestapo while participating in the French Resistance and was later tortured and executed by firing squad.

These military attacks deep inside Russia are in reality also aimed by the United States against China and against the Global South.

Lindsey German on climate chaos and capitalism’s inability to deal with it.

Keir Starmer learned this lesson the hard way. Now, it’s Andy Burnham’s turn.