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1. Brussels conference lifts Ukraine solidarity to higher plane

   Russia's war on Ukraine Belgium Barcelona The Brussels Solidarity with Ukraine conference on March ... talks — peace between neofascists and war on oppressed peoples World ... Europe Imperialism & war International solidarity National liberation Dick Nichols ...

2. Blog: The COVID-19 crisis in Europe

   licensed treatment for HIV) and and lopinavir/ritonavir + interferon- are being tested on 3,500 ... and devastating impact. The Local: European countries are easing restrictions on social distancing, ... There is a big, global race to get a coronavirus vaccine going on with more than 100 drugs being tested ...

3. How well did the left go in the June 9 European election?

   2024 European elections Russia's war on Ukraine 2023-25 Israeli genocide on Gaza GUE/GL Barcelona ... Italian and French left, and the Irish left independents)? Or, again, is Russia’s war on Ukraine just ... Elections Europe Far right Feminism Imperialism & war Refugees & migrants Dick Nichols ...

4. Spain: Pedro Sánchez launches ‘class war’ election campaign

   and that “big business and the rich will have to pay their share”. War on welfare state Sánchez’s ... problem is that wages are too low, and its competitiveness based too much on Spanish labour’s cheapness. ... its income on private spending for services that were previously provided by the public sector. And ...

5. ‘The power of education is key to achieving Afghanistan’s emancipation’: Interview with Malalai Joya

   don’t care about their wishes. Even the women on TV that present for them must cover their faces and ... be in the front line, organised together. Progressive men and women have a big responsibility on ... Asia & the Pacific Imperialism & war International solidarity Dick Nichols Malalai Joya ...

6. Live Blog: News and analysis on Catalonia's struggle for self-determination

   sources on Catalonia, click here. For solidarity information click here. For an administrative map of ... Catalonia click here. For an explanatory note on this blog click here. Translation: Unless otherwise ... journalist Josep Goded on Twitter. For a daily update (Monday to Friday) watch the Catalan News Agency's ...

7. Spain: Rubiales sexual harassment case detonates social explosion

   Dick Nichols FIFA Women's World Cup Sexual abuse, assualt, harassment and violence consent ... Football Federation (RFEF), finally resigned on September 10 after being suspended by the international ... football federation, FIFA, for his display of macho triumphalism following Spain’s women’s World Cup ...

8. Live Blog | Catalonia on Trial: The Spanish State vs. The Catalan 12

   "dirty war" on the UN working group International Trial Watch  concludes case against Catalan ... democracy SIGN THE PETITION SUPPORTING CATALONIA'S RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION N ote on blog THIS BLOG ... HAS ENDED. FOR OUR CONTINUING COVERAGE OF CATALONIA GO HERE. This blog focuses on the trial in the ...

9. Ukrainian workers’ war on two fronts

   of its adoption on the morale of the men and women confronting the Russian invader. Will they ... Europe Imperialism & war Workers & unions Dick Nichols Ukraine-Russia war Anti-union law ... and legislation When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, social conflict inside the country was not ...

10. Noam Chomsky has no proposal for ending Russia's war on Ukraine

    second of these “understood” by George W Bush as a contribution to the “war on terror”. Putin’s own ... grows, will Ukraine be Putin’s Vietnam? Meet Russia’s feminist resistance to Putin’s war on Ukraine World ... Europe History Imperialism & war International solidarity Dick Nichols Ukraine-Russia war ...

11. Russia: Putin’s call-up stirs protests, endangers patriotic consensus

    Europe Imperialism & war Women Dick Nichols conscription Ukraine-Russia war anti-war protests ... the current military reserve would be called up to bolster the Russian war effort. “Referenda” on ... the state remains out of yours.’ Now it is no longer possible to quietly watch the war on the ...

12. Spanish election: Right blocked, but now Sánchez needs Puigdemont

    attacks on women’s refuges and suppression of literature and education in Catalan — saw the racist outfit ... chance to end the horrors of “ sanchismo ” — such as laws on transgender rights and against gender-based ... between “regressing 50 years” or building on the gains of three-and-a-half years of PSOE-UP government to ...

13. Russia: Parliament votes to outlaw promotion of LGBTQI relationships

    Europe Far right LGBTIQ Media Dick Nichols homophobia Russia's war on Ukraine anti-LGBTIQ ... (KPRF), chairwoman of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children’s Affairs. The second draft was ... October 18 post on the Telegram channel of Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAS), both drafts affected ...

14. How strong is Russian and Belarusian resistance to Putin’s Ukraine war?

    “militaristic patriarchal nightmare” on the second day of the war, claims 45 active groups across the Russian ... most basic are “No War” written on banknotes, anti-war stickers on public toilets and park benches, ... copies of or quotes from anti-war classics like All Quiet on the Western Front left in public places, and ...

15. Spanish state: New local administrations emerge after dirty deals

    investiture of incoming administrations on June 17. Under the Spanish system, parties that win a relative ... only 10 seats on the 41-seat council. Lesser evil: ‘communism’ or ‘separatism’? Success and failure in ... now is what price the PNV will pay at the July 23 general election for its growing dependence on the ...

16. Far-right censure motion: Theatre of the grotesque staged in Spanish Congress

    development; women are not having enough children; housing is impossibly expensive; crime is on the increase, ... On that day Vox, the ultra-right party directly descended from the 1939‒75 dictatorship of Francisco ... also an opportunity for the economics professor to hold a master class before a very large public on ...

17. Live Blog: Catalonia's Independence Struggle Continues...

    Dick Nichols Comarcas-de-Catalua.gif Note to readers This live blog will end on Sunday, January ... struggle and its impact on Spanish and European polítics. The new blog will provisionally be called ... “Catalonia in Spain: Europe’s key struggle for democracy”. It will focus less on hour-by-hour updating of the ...

18. Catalan parliament officially recognises Rojava administration

    of Kurdish majority centred on Rojava, but also including regions of Arab majority, such as Raqqa, ... for the resolution to be voted on paragraph by paragraph, separating the issue of recognition from ... about Rojava’s experience of grassroots democracy and assess opportunities for cooperation in post-war ...

19. Spain: Failed Socialist Party manoeuvre sparks vital battle for Madrid

    capital during the Spanish Civil War. The Iglesias campaign will focus on re-enthusing Madrid’s ... no-confidence motion against the ruling PP in Murcia’s 45-seat regional parliament on March 18. The motion was ... presented on the pretext that its leaders had abused their positions to jump the COVID-19 vaccination queue. ...

20. Radical independence campaigner on the Yes surge

    of the SSP — to take women’s issues seriously. Crucially, it needs to be based on the vibrant, ... Imperialism & war Workers & unions Socialism Democracy Economy Environment Elections ... is heading towards it decisive test. On September 18, a referendum is being held on whether the ...

21. Live Blog: Catalonia's independence struggle

    self-determination. Pope John Paul II, speaking in the UN (on October 5,1995), vindicates this basic right when he ... harmony. CALL ON all citizens, the forces of public order and the politicians who direct them, to always ... prevail." 1700 hours Podemos Catalonia leader Albano Dante Fachin denounces a war by Spanish state leader ...

22. On the socialist campaign trail

    of Cunningham, centred on Wollongong, prominent Lebanese community leader and anti-war activist Saeb ... people many already driven from their countries by civil war and persecution. In the New South Wales seat ... and justice. This is important because we are being targeted; we're on the back foot." ...

23. Spain's Indignados one year on ― more relevant than ever

    the indignado (“the outraged”) protests and camps that broke out across Spain on May 15 last year, the ... turnout The huge turnout to 15-M’s “Happy First Birthday” demonstrations on May 12 was in part a response ... that has, in Spain, put 5.5 million on the dole. When pollster Metroscopia repeated its survey of ...

24. Spanish state: Amid spiralling COVID-19 death toll, demands grow for full lockdown

    514 deaths from COVID-19 on March 24 — its highest daily death toll to date — bringing the country’s ... Nichols,  about the grim reality on the ground and how, among the sorrow, examples of people’s solidarity ... area though, because there is a lot of economic activity going on, at the same time as there are ...

25. PSOE-Podemos government formed despite right’s attacks

    main shot in the right’s war came on January 3, when the Central Electoral Board (JEC) voted seven to ... attack on migrant youth, supposedly most responsible for the recent rise in violence against women. In ... more radical Unidas Podemos (UP) on January 7. No Spanish prime minister has ever been elected by so ...

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