Geography Archives: Europe

Clara McCormack assesses the nature of the fuel protests that brought the country to a standstill for a week, arguing that we need to broaden the protests into a wider fight on the cost-of-living crisis.

Spain’s Council of Ministers today approved a Royal Decree for the extraordinary regularization of thousands of migrants.

The Tisza party defeated Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz in Hungary’s election, but a likely Magyar administration promises few radical breaks.

Palestine Action, a direct-action group protesting against Israeli war crimes, was proscribed by the British government in July 2025.

Rising temperatures and overfishing have seen the U.K.’s iconic cod decline for over a decade. Now, consumers are warned to “completely avoid” eating the fish.

After a top reporter at the BBC drew outrage for publishing a quote demanding Iran be nuked, she’s been revealed as a dedicated regime change activist whose career was launched by a CIA-founded propaganda network. Serious questions remain about the BBC’s editorial process.

China’s high level of investment is simply the latest stage of an international process of economic development that has been underway for over two centuries.

A Russian oil tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of crude oil docked at the Cuban port of Matanzas this week, delivering the largest fuel shipment to reach the island in months.

Just when you think cynicism has its limits, reality takes us by surprise.

Why We Are Not Separate from the Earth.

The ship is carrying approximately 100,000 tons of oil classified as humanitarian aid, in a context marked by a severe energy crisis affecting the Caribbean island.

As young voters across Ireland increasingly back Sinn Féin in opposition to partition, inequality and global imperialism, the party’s national chair, Declan Kearney, discusses the possibilities and pitfalls of this moment.

As the continent hardens its borders, Madrid bets on inclusion over exclusion.

To believe this is a false flag, it is not in any way necessary to believe that the ambulance organisation itself was complicit.

Trump boasted this week that he could ‘take’ Cuba and do ‘whatever he wants’ with the island nation, coinciding with major power outages resulting from the blockade.

Since the beneficiaries of the oil price rise will be immediately holding their windfall profits quite substantially as bank deposits that create no direct demand for goods and services, while the losers from inflation will have to curtail their total demand for goods and services in real terms, such an inflation will have a depressing effect on the level of world aggregate demand, and hence will cause a recession in the world economy.

The Spanish government condemned this Saturday’s attack on a health center in Lebanon, which it described as “a flagrant and unacceptable violation of international humanitarian law,” and urged that such acts be investigated because hospitals “are never military objectives.”

Organizers are working to have demonstrations take place throughout England, and it’s something that tenants and activists in the United States and other countries can learn from.

At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off.

Kollontai’s writings on women’s oppression and their struggle for liberation are as clarifying and brilliantly relevant today as they have always been, finds Lindsey German.