Merkel and the environment: smog and mirrors
After spending over a decade in power attempting to greenwash her capitalist programme, Merkel’s environmental agenda is quickly unravelling under pressure from big business.
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Five weeks on – where next for the yellow vests?
The gilet jaunes protests in France continued over the weekend, but with diminished numbers. To move forward successfully, the trade union and left leaders need to provide direction, with mass strikes aimed at bringing down the Macron government.
Euro crisis: the beginning of the end?
Across the continent, European leaders are facing political and economic crises at home. The EU project is being torn apart at the seams.
The yellow vests, Act IV – turn the movement into a revolution!
France’s “gilets jaunes” protests have rapidly escalated into a national mass movement against the elite and their political representatives. Now they must go further and overthrow the Macron government.
France in a “state of insurrection” as yellow vests advance
The radical and militant mass movement of the yellow vests in France has won a partial victory with the cancellation of the fuel tax increase. But now it must continue and fight to topple the Macron government.
French yellow vests: overthrow the government!
A mass grassroots movement has exploded onto the scene in France, aimed squarely against the Macron government. The left must help to give this radical movement a political expression.
European establishment faces crisis on all fronts
The fragile fabric of the European project is being torn apart by a combo of political and economic forces. Liberal politicians are impotent to hold up the crumbling pillars of this failed status quo.
Italian debt crisis haunts Europe
A crunch point is approaching in the ongoing saga surrounding the highly-indebted Italian economy. This could spark a revival of the dormant euro crisis.
The movement for a Catalan republic – one year on
A year on from the dramatic events surrounding the referendum for Catalan independence, Jorge Martin analyses the lessons of the struggle for the Catalan Republic.
Dublin eviction exposes Ireland’s housing scandal
The recent eviction of a group of occupiers in Dublin has highlighted the absurd housing crisis that exists in Ireland, with empty homes alongside homelessness.
Swedish election: beginning of the end of class peace
After decades of peace and calm, a period of uncertainty and volatility is opening up in Sweden. The crisis of capitalism has reached so-called “socialist” Scandinavia.
Catalonia: to achieve the republic, we must make the revolution!
Today is the National Day of Catalonia. We publish here the latest editorial from Revolució: magazine of the International Marxist Tendency in Catalonia, which provides a balance sheet of the political situation in Catalonia and the rest of the Spanish state, and explains the tasks ahead for the left wing of the Republican movement.