Instability Reigns in Italy
Official Europe is distressed and angry with the Italians. These foolish people have failed to elect the stable, pro-austerity government official Europe demanded. They would have preferred a...
View ArticleFurther Thoughts on Italian Elections
Forgive me for returning to the subject of the Italian elections so soon, but the outcome is of some significance. The main victor was not the right wing Berlusconi, the outgoing technocrat premier...
View ArticleEastleigh from a Scottish Perspective
Nothing underlines the difference between official politics on either side of the border than the results and fall out from last Thursday’s Eastleigh by-election. None of the top three parties in the...
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Alexis Tsipras Statement on Developments in Cyprus
It is now clear that the European leadership is treading a path, which is now openly a road against the European peoples. The strategy of the German government, with the blessings of the speculative...
View ArticleItaly: Out of the Frying Pan…
Italy has a government! The European elite cheer but what do the people of Italy think? Of course, many if not most will accept you have to have a government, except if you’re Belgium. And some will...
View ArticleEuropean Unemployment Out of Control
Across the Eurozone there are now almost 20 million people who are unemployed. This week’s figures show that unemployment hit 12.1% in March, up from 11% a year ago. For the European Union as a whole...
View ArticleIs Die Linke a real alternative for Germany?
While the British left is pretty much non-existent in parliament, the German party Die Linke has 75 out of 620 seats in the Bundestag and thus constitutes the fourth biggest party in parliament. In...
View ArticleFirst-hand account from Istanbul
Arriving in Taksim Square on the evening of Thursday 30th May, the scene was one of of tourists wandering, students mingling and families gathering to enjoy the sunset at this popular down town meet up...
View ArticleGreek Austerity Comes to Scotland
George Papandreou, the Greek champion of austerity, arrives in Edinburgh today to address the TEDGlobal conference. Elected prime minister on a social democratic platform, like his father and...
View ArticleFor Clément
Only a few days have passed and yet it feels to us like an eternity: since the death of Clément, we have been in a turmoil that has been difficult to handle. Without a doubt, nothing, not even the...
View ArticleMass Protests in Bulgaria, Despite Attempts at Media Blackout
Thirty-five days after eruption of the protests in Bulgaria, massive crowds of people are still out in the streets and they are angrier than ever before. The protests were sparked off by the...
View ArticleBulgaria; a Political System in Crisis
The end of the Cold war and Union for Economical Support marks the point of transition for most of the satellite republics from totalitarian economy habits of spending, to the struggle with advanced...
View ArticleOn this Day 9/8/1940– Estonia is Incorporated into the Soviet Union
August 1940, the month in which the Soviet Union formally incorporated the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, came in the middle of a turbulent time in both European and the Baltic States: a period of...
View ArticleGerman General Elections: More of the Same
The Free Democratic Party is dead, Merkel won again, and the German equivalent to UKIP almost got into parliament There haven’t been many general elections in Germany as tight as this one. One moment...
View ArticleGreece; Fascism and The Resistance
If a week is a long time in politics, the last two weeks must have seemed like an eternity to the Golden Dawn, a more spectacular reversal of political fortunes could rarely be found. Earlier this...
View ArticleThe German Revolution Part 2: Militarism and Anti-Militarism
At the outbreak of World War I the world of the German political left and the labour movement was utterly dominated by its Social Democratic Party (SPD). In 1914 the SPD had well over one million...
View ArticleA Question of Europe
Faced with the rise of the United Kingdom Independence Party in England and the resulting resurgence of Tory Euro-scepticism there is a temptation, in reaction, to adopt a pro-European stance. The...
View Article‘Polite Intervention’ and the Ukrainian Revolution
Why, do you suppose, war has not yet broken out between Russia and Ukraine? The answer is very simple: no one plans to go to war, and no one can. Kiev for practical purposes does not have an army,...
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Ukraine: Between Imperialisms
Mulling over events in Ukraine I found myself reading Trotsky, writing in the final months before World War II, on the right of Ukraine to self determination. I am struck that he was polemicising in...
View ArticleWill There Be A War In Ukraine?
US warplanes have been rushed to Lithuania amidst a growing chorus of voices claiming that Russia is a threat to the Baltic States. More have flown to take part in military exercises in Poland....
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