Since Conservative Party Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called the election, it has so far been a largely dull campaign, which from Brexit to Palestine, has ignored important issues and strategically focussed on trivia, reports Derek Wall.
Europe
91自拍论坛鈥檚 Susan Price spoke with John Mullen, an anticapitalist activist living in Paris and a supporter of the left-wing France Insoumise, following the far-right's gains in the recent European elections and French President Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 decision to call a snap election.
The June 9 European elections are shedding a sharp light on the political crisis in France, writes John Mullen.
"Unjust but not unexpected" is how Suzi Weissman, spokesperson for the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign, described the June 5 decision of a Russian court to reject Boris Kagarlitsky鈥檚 appeal against a five-year jail term for "justifying terrorism".
Chloe DS, Jacob Andrewartha and Rob Zocchi from 3CR鈥檚 91自拍论坛 Radio show spoke with journalist Nic Maclellan on May 24 about the crisis in Kanaky, geopolitical factors in the Indo Pacific and the centrality of Kanak self-determination.
Colin Falconer provides invaluable background to the uprising in Kanaky/New Caledonia, over France's latest attempt to derail independence.
Russian president Vladimir Putin's regime is using anti-terror laws to step up its repression at home and in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, reports Federico Fuentes.
Respected journalist, author and solidarity activist David Robie writes that while Paris reacts with a heavy-handed security crackdown against the revolt in Kanaky (New Caledonia), it cannot stifle the desire for independence.
Ukrainian trade unionists in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih have issued an important appeal for solidarity in the lead up to June 6鈥9 European Union (EU) elections, reminding Europe鈥檚 politicians that workers always bear the greatest burden of war, reports Federico Fuentes.
While Germany cracks down on free speech and debate over Israel's genocidal war in Palestine in the name of 'protecting Jews and fighting antisemitism', its military industrial complex is making mega profits from the sales of weapons to Israel, writes Mary Merkenich.
The German Democratic Republic (GDR) is often painted as a 鈥渨alled-in, Russian-controlled Stasi land鈥. However British-German Historian Katja Hoyer's 2023 book Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990 presents a more interesting and contradictory picture of a state where socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning and barbed wire co-existed, writes Alex Salmon.
The May 12 regional election exposed Catalan independentism鈥檚 state of fragmentation, writes Dick Nichols.
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