No bassaran: (battle)field notes about a few revolutionary days in France
Paris, 23 March 2023, 13:00. I numb my sore throat with a couple of lozenges, the chills of fever with...
Social issues
France: Return of the king
France is boiling over like it has not been for long. Images of May '68 are surfacing in the minds...
Strike! German employees close their ranks
The next round of collective bargaining in the public sector in Germany is accompanied by industrial action on a rare...
Bulgaria and Romania: Big money limit the power of free speech and civil society
On 11 March 2022 Financial Times’ John Lloyd held a master class on journalism in Turda (Romania), organized by the...
How Realistic is it to expect Good Government?
Clare Daly is a fearless and outspoken Irish MEP who recently commissioned from Albena Azmanova a critical report which accused...
Americans’ drive towards unionization
When you start separating the people from their rivers what have you got? ‘Bureaucracy!’ Says Old Bull… ‘Tain’t nothin but...
The Anatomy of Current Czech Protests
Another huge anti-governmental demonstration was held on Prague's Wenceslas Square on 11 March, with people filling Prague's second-largest square almost...
Who is defending democracy in France? Labour unions!
When Emmanuel Macron fought for the presidency, he presented himself as a defender of democracy. He suggested that anyone who...
Greece: from privatizations and cuts to a train crash
On 28 February, an InterCity train from Athens to Thessaloniki collided with a freight train. Fifty-seven people were killed and...
Francesco Trupia: North Kosovo crisis – the dilemma and turnaround for Kosovo Serbs
After the 1999 Kosovo War, Belgrade established its parallel system to exert control over Kosovo Serbs and cement ethnic partition...
