Geography Archives: Europe

German-born Karl Marx might well be the most prominent philosopher and economist to have elaborated on a capitalism that created a class system. Yet, Germany is moving from the denial of class towards a “rediscovery” of class.

Both Catherine Connolly and Michael D are unabashedly left-wing, absorbed by the struggle for people to live with dignity in Ireland itself and gripped by severe global challenges, particularly those posed by U.S. imperialism.

DENNIS BROE situates the new Netflix series House of Guinness within a genre that is dazzled by the perverse spectacle of capitalist domination.

In February 1947, Eleanor Roosevelt, writer and activist, and wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945); Peng Chun Chang, Chinese scholar, philosopher, human rights activist, and diplomat; and Charles Habib Malik, Lebanese scholar, diplomat, and philosopher, began drafting what would become known a year later as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

The Tories are increasingly fond of deriding their opponents as Marxists – but DEREK WALL says there should be no shame in such a label.

On October 7, 1949, the German Democratic Republic was founded.

Ahead of her talk at TWT, Zarah Sultana argues that we must ensure that initiatives like Your Party are inclusive projects to which the whole Left can contribute—and use them to take the socialist struggle onto the streets.

On October 8, 2023, the Israeli war machine, armed and financed by Washington, launched the first genocide in history to be broadcast live before the eyes of the world. As we enter October 2025, the second year of this open genocide, neighborhoods in Gaza continue to be leveled, hospitals bombed, and children condemned to death […]

Response to ‘Red Flag: No, East Germany wasn’t socialist—and neither is “democratic socialism”’

On September 22, Italian workers staged a general strike and conducted massive demonstrations to denounce the Italian government’s complicity with the Gaza genocide.

The UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories implored other countries “to mobilize their fleet to grant the flotilla safe sailing to Gaza, and deploy a real humanitarian convoy to break the blockade.”

More important than anything else, we must insist that as long as Zionism ideologically dominates the reality in historical Palestine, there will be no Palestinian self-determination, freedom, or liberation.

Hundreds of thousands marched across Italy on September 22, blocking highways and ports in one of the country’s largest mobilizations in decades, signaling the return of a collective voice against war and arms trade with Israel.

India found itself in an uncomfortable situation like a cat on a hot roof at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation event in Tianjin, China, with the Western media hyping up its unlikely role in a troika with Russia and China to chariot the world order toward a brave new era of multipolarity.

A BOLD new project has been recently announced by a strong group of UK universities supported by the Wellcome Trust, which has more than £1 billion in funds.

Mass mobilisations of the left brought down the French government, but these must be maintained to prevent the right from gaining from the crisis, argues John Mullen.

Most of the Impressionist artists were from comfortable, if not wealthy, families. This relative privilege coloured their attitudes to contemporary events.

A Revolutionary Review of Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion, and Democracy by Samir Amin. Eurocentrism is not a flaw—it’s the software of global capitalism. Samir Amin detonates its ideological core, exposing how it serves empire, whitewashes history, and infects even the Marxist tradition. This review is not just critique—it’s insurgency.

As Labour embraces anti-migrant rhetoric, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the government is demonizing vulnerable people to distract from its domestic failures.