Blog

  • Analysis

  • Could Marine Le Pen’s Dominance of the French Far Right Be Under Threat?

  • 15 Nov 21
  • After her setback in the regional elections, Marine Le Pen now finds herself rattled by the unexpected rise of far-right media polemicist Éric Zemmour. Between its desire to represent a break with the status quo on the one hand, and its aspirations to electability on the other, her National Rally party is going through an identity crisis.
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  • Speech

  • Expanding Democratic Control

  • By Stuart Fairweather | 14 Nov 21
  • Contribution to the seminar Expanding Democratic Control: Employment, Energy and Environment, organised by the Party of the European Left (7/11/2021) in the framework of the Peoples‘ Summit (COP26 Coalition).
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  • COP26

  • People and Nature vs. the UNFCCC: A People’s Tribunal

  • 13 Nov 21
  • On 7 November, in the framework of the Peoples' Summit during the Glasgow COP26, a jury found the UNFCCC guilty of several serious charges, including failing of address the root causes of climate change. Furthermore, the UNFCCC violated the UN Charter. Therefore the jury claims wide-ranging measures of redress for the peoples of the world.
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  • COP26

  • Glasgow Greenwashed? Left MEPs at COP26 for Systemic Change

  • 08 Nov 21
  • From 31 October, world leaders and experts will meet in Glasgow at the global climate talks, COP26. Over thirteen days, they will discuss and negotiate our future. While they bring their sponsors from big tech, big pharma and agribusiness, we’re getting organised to bring climate justice.
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  • Explainer

  • On the COP26 Global Climate Talks

  • 03 Nov 21
  • World leaders and experts will meet in Glasgow in November at the global climate talks, COP26. The decisions made at COP26 will shape how governments respond (or not) to the climate crisis. Get an overview on the main actors and the key aims. An explainer by the COP26 Coalition.
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  • Report

  • The Victims on Europe’s Eastern Borders

  • By Gavin Rae | 21 Oct 21
  • A humanitarian emergency is once again developing on the European Union’s borders: Refugees find themselves trapped between Poland and Belarus as Polish government takes increasingly aggressive action and even declared the state of emergency in two of its regions.
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  • Report

  • A Day That Changed Not Only Graz

  • By Michael Graber | 29 Sep 21
  • For the first time since 1945 in a large Austrian city, the second largest in the country with about 300,000 inhabitants, the bourgeois candidate was voted out in favour of a Communist. Long-time mayor Siegfried Nagl (ÖVP – conservative) suffered heavy losses, while the KPÖ under city councilwoman Elke Kahr came out in first place.
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