Geography Archives: Europe

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.

A series of serious misunderstandings has led to an uninformed outcry in the Christian West over a short scene in the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics, writes Cathy Vogan.

Advancing degrowth in Ireland requires an understanding of, and a reckoning with, the economic legacy of its colonised past, CUSP researcher Seán Fearon writes. A post-colonial economy within planetary boundaries must break with relationships of dependency and structures of unsustainability.

As the annual marches commemorating William of Orange’s ascension to power draw to a close, Mark Hackett reflects on how the events of 1688 shaped the modern bourgeoise state.

From the 1942 ‘American century’ to Trump’s ‘American carnage’, the U.S. has shifted from a post-WW2 boom to decline, facing political divides, economic crisis, poverty, and social decay.

The ICJ ruling finding Israel’s occupation unlawful makes the first test for David Lammy’s ‘progressive realism’ clear: either Labour opposes dispossession and genocide, or it is complicit.

July 1st marked the 10th anniversary of a brutal resumption of hostilities in the Donbass civil war.

Judge Christopher Hehir set a disturbing precedent on Thursday after he jailed the activists for a total of 21 years at Southwark Crown Court.