Geography Archives: Europe

On his way to meet Joseph Stalin in July 1941, Harry Hopkins landed just out of range of German guns on a Moscow city airfield which, later, stretched a few hundred metres from my kitchen window.

This week in working class history.

On November 28, 2025, the editors of Theory & Struggle, the journal of the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School in London, interviewed Gabriel Rockhill about his new book Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, published by Monthly Review Press. Watch a video of the interview below.

Will the U.S. and Russia abandon all nuclear restraints?

In 2025, tens of thousands of pro-Palestine activists joined Die Linke, hoping to change the party’s direction. What chance do they have of winning?

In early November 2024, something historic happened in Spain.

Defending it is our urgent task in the year to come, speech itself our instrument.

“Our country is not something that can be annexed or taken over simply because someone wishes to do so,” said Greenland Premier Orla Joelsen.

On December 11, 2025, the Critical Theory Workshop hosted an online book launch and discussion in celebration of Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, published by Monthly Review Press. Rockhill was joined in conversation by Ali Kadri and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, with Jennifer Ponce de León as moderator. A […]

Peter Mertens, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Belgium, tells Peoples Dispatch that 2026 brings opportunities for class struggle – if the left is ready to act boldly.

On 25 December 2025, a military court in Moscow sentenced Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the “Left Front” movement, to six years in prison on charges of “supporting terrorism.”

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been on an emotional roller coaster ever since they returned to capitalism.

Victor Grossman, born Stephen Wechsler in New York City in 1928, died in Berlin on Wednesday, December 17. His Berlin Bulletin appeared regularly on MR Online, and in 2019 Monthly Review Press published his memoir A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee. Victor was a good friend of Monthly Review for over thirty years, who […]

The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensions are building behind the scenes over the party’s economic programme. On December 12, 2025, just over 3 months since Zack Polanski’s election as party leader – the […]

The European Union is trying to eliminate sources of information that do not confirm with its official interpretation of real world events.

‘Intifada’ has a range of meanings, and the police must not be allowed to decide what it means themselves, explain Shabbir Lakha and Michael Lavalette.

MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero—soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation.

After restoring the France-backed regime of Patrice Talon following a coup, foreign troops have remained in Benin, maintaining control over the Presidential residence and several key government buildings.

Failure to air footage of Israeli soldiers executing unarmed Palestinians shows the corporation’s true bias.

Peter Oborne’s Complicit brings Britain’s political and media establishment thoroughly to account for its abetting of Israel’s genocide, finds Chris Bambery.