Geography Archives: Europe

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.

What is true of the world economy as a whole holds true for countries like India which have enormous labour reserves inherited from the colonial times, reserves hidden away in particular in vast agrarian sectors.

Leaked emails expose how British military-intel officials deliberately provoked riots among occupied Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities, which they then exploited to justify repression. In private diatribes, veterans of occupied Ireland who later became MI6 officers still obsess over “keeping Northern Ireland British” and mock the death of Bobby Sands.

Climate change is making extremely dangerous heat waves like this one more common.

ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes.

Lord Ismay, NATO’s first secretary-general, once said the alliance existed to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.

Born in Bradford and shaped by northern art-school discipline, David Hockney brought a working-class, almost punk refusal to British art: do the work, trust the eye, do not ask for approval.

If Marx in Capital lays bare the “hidden” abode of capitalist production, Joyce, in Ulysses, lays bare the hidden (yet all-too-visible) abode of modern reproduction, the arena that’s both the starting and end point of progressive politics, decreeing its victory or defeat.

I was genuinely surprised by the Starmer regime’s refusal to state that the Israeli boarding of the Global Sumud flotilla on the High Seas was illegal.

In this blog, Jeffrie Quarsie invites us not to dismiss the claim that France is sustaining the Jihadist terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, which it once promised and failed to suppress. He points to France’s self-interested and treacherous role in the region and calls for more rigorous research that can trace the funding infrastructure behind terrorist groups.

As this journalist has previously revealed, in August 1957 the CIA secretly drew up elaborate plans for a U.S. special forces invasion of Ukraine.