Geography Archives: Europe

“As such, it was necessary to engage authorities in Namibia on issues of concern to ensure our decisions and actions domestically are aligned with our obligations in terms of international law and our policy stance of many years on Palestine.”

There aren’t many countries that have been fighting off U.S. aggression for as long as Venezuela.

We are pleased to republish below a series of three articles by Kenny Coyle analysing the new Labour government’s foreign policy, in particular the “progressive realism” espoused by Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

By adopting unilateral U.S.-European sanctions against Russia in February 2022, even though it had always claimed that it would only apply sanctions endorsed by the United Nations and enshrined in international law, the Swiss government has dealt a heavy blow to neutrality and international Geneva. But in Geneva, nobody flinched. And here are the reasons why.

For decades, most Black political commentary has expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, but recently, a new phenomenon has appeared, particularly on social media platforms, which accuses all Palestinians of being anti-Black racists, and asserts that aligning with them is either of no use to Black people or even that it is detrimental to our own cause.

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Is there a migration crisis in England? Yes, there is, says John Wight. And it’s not the fault of the migrants.

Counterfire members attended demonstrations across the country and sent the following reports of the heartening mobilisations against racism and fascism.

The racist pogroms on the streets of Britain are the result of British support for genocide in Palestine and the construction of a “migrant threat”.

The U.S. and UK ambassadors to Japan will not attend the Nagasaki atomic bomb victim memorial on August 9 due to the Nagasaki administration’s decision not to invite the Israeli envoy.

DELIVERY drivers in the gig economy are fearing for their lives because of the wave of far-right riots that continue across the country.

While Ava Moayeri and her team argue that the conviction represents a violation of free speech, the judge claims it challenged “Israel’s” right to exist.

Britain’s political establishment has spent decades demonising refugees and Muslims. Defeating the far right doesn’t stop with ending the violent riots on the streets—the politics that inspired them must be beaten too.

Few are better qualified to challenge the official orthodoxy that stifles any discussion of this topic.

How Palestine turned a classical musician and recovering child prodigy into a revolutionary.

A View from the Inside.

THE racist riot in Southport following the murderous knife attack on a children’s dance class speaks both to the unscrupulousness and mobilising reach of Britain’s fascist right.

UK Plans to Build New Missiles to Target Russia Linked to Pentagon’s Mad Conventional Strike Scheme.

Spaniards across the country are protesting against the uncontrolled influx of tourists that has caused a collapse in quality of life, a jump in housing prices and a rise in the cost of basic necessities.

French workers are taking advantage of the spotlight due to the Olympics, and the left victory in the elections, to strike and gain important demands, reports Jamal Elaheebocus.