Geography Archives: Europe

The threat of immediate extradition has been lifted in today’s ruling against the U.S. government, reports John Rees from the court.

European Parliament elections in Belgium are once again taking place in the shadow of national parliamentary and regional elections. One could, therefore, expect similar results in both sets of polls.

According to Dmitri Kovalevich, the United States controls all decisions in Ukraine, not only military but also economic. “It is not the Ukrainian [military] command that decides where to advance, what to undermine, what to shell; Ukrainian soldiers are acting on the advice of Western instructors,” he said, referring to the actions of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe.

Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”.

To the African masses at home and abroad, oppressed and tormented by the imperialists for centuries and yet steadfast in your struggle. We, the Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa, urge you to stand strongly behind the Alliance of Sahel States which, at this moment in our history, represents the model for Pan-Africanism and therefore the path towards the total liberation and unification of Africa.

Dutch Universities are waging war on their own students and Palestine activists.

ROAPE interviews Mark Duffield about his life and work.

France has long sought to undermine African sovereignty, from the national liberation struggles of the twentieth century to today. But Africa would not tolerate French dominion then, nor will it now. This newsletter seeks to better understand the wave of coups in the Sahel and the fervour for African sovereignty in the region.

Dima of the Military Summary Channel and others have mentioned that the Ukrainian army has deployed its police and military cadets to the front line.

Robinson: If Western states have their reasons for being cagey of foreign influences, so too do those in other countries.

May 2 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the biggest crimes of 21st century fascism—the massacre of nearly 50 activists at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine.

It was May 10^th in Germany’s terrible year 1933, Hitler had been in power for hardly three months, when students and staff emptied the university libraries of forbidden books and threw them, an estimated 20,000 books by over a hundred authors, into the flames of a giant bonfire.… No books were burned this time in early May. But there were ironic parallels, some all too alarming!

Wave of campus occupations launched at six unis.

“This is the largest security assistance package that we’ve committed to date,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a Pentagon news conference.

The U.S.-steered Aukus military alliance is cranking up hostilities by inviting Japan into the anti-China pact, writes FIONA EDWARDS of the No Cold War campaign

This is truly a new political fact: particularly on the issue of war, but not only, the 20-year-olds are coming back on the scene.

African liberation struggles not only won independence in their own countries; they also defeated Estado Novo colonialism, which spurred the Carnation Revolution 50 years ago.

John Green on the fiftieth anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution.

The ‘carnation revolution’ saw soldiers, workers and communities join forces to overthrow fascism and challenge capitalist power. Peter Robinson traces events from April 1974.