Europe

In Just a Few Weeks, Corbyn Has Already Brought Significant Change to Labour  Ken Livingstone writes: It has been a terrible week for the Tories, and a very good one for the opposition. The Tories expected to write a script…

CALL TO ACTION FROM THE ROME PEACE CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 26th, 2015 We, the participants attending the International Conference Against War and For a Neutral Italy and an Independent Europe held in Rome on October 26, 2015, on the initiative of…

In spite of trying to make sure that all the millionaires sitting in the House of Lords were there to ratify the Conservative bill that would have cut the incomes of some of the poorest 3m people by an average…

Apostolis Fotiadis is a freelance journalist. He has reported on politics since 2005 with an emphasis on European immigration policy and ethnic conflicts in the Balkans. He is an analyst in Greek and foreign media. In early 2015, he published…

Surely Obama can do better than this, but he has to sing in Russian. http://language101.com/blog/putin-sings-blueberry-hill/ Maybe a singing contest with a background of bombs falling on Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan, and Yemen, just to add further elements of contradiction…

By Alesia Miguens, for Informador público Sometimes in history it is more important what almost happened than what really took place. And perhaps the most astonishing thing about these incredible stories of heroes, so far removed from the glamour of comic…

A colourful and ironic demonstration marched through the streets of Naples, Italy to protest against NATO’s Trident Juncture military exercises. All photos by Darío Lo Scalzo for Pressenza.

By Andrea Needham for Waging Nonviolence In January 1996, I was one of 10 women who carried out a Ploughshares action in England, disarming a Hawk attack aircraft at a British Aerospace factory in Lancashire. The Hawk was about to…

Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club Vladimir Putin took part in the final plenary session of the 12th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. October 22, 2015 Sochi This topic of this year’s Valdai conference is Societies Between War and Peace: Overcoming the Logic of Conflict in Tomorrow’s World. In the period…

In stark contrast to the record low number of prosecutions of CEO’s and high-level financial executives in the U.S., Iceland has just sentenced 26 bankers to a combined 74 years in prison. The majority of those convicted have been sentenced…