Maurice Hickey explains the initiative to provide concrete solidarity in this time of war The European Association of Employed Community Pharmacists in Europe (EPhEU) is the European-wide federation of unions representing community pharmacists. The UK affiliate to EPhEU is the Pharmacists’ Defence Association with PDA chair, Mark Koziol, being EPhEU Secretary General from 2021-2024. The […]
Christine Buchholz looks at the crisis enveloping all political parties as the winds of change blow through Though Germany has been seen as a stable liberal democracy for many decades, the climate crisis, pandemic, Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the increase in the cost-of-living are causing political conditions there to slide into the […]
Barbara Steiner gives an overview of the strength of left parties in Europe, revealing not everything is bad Let’s begin by recognising that the new popular ecological and socialist union is biggest opposition party in the French parliament, Sinn Féin became the strongest party in Northern Ireland, and Syriza is preparing to re-enter the Greek […]
John Dennis explains the STUC’s call for action in Scotland against the needless deaths of migrant workers building the World Cup stadia in Qatar Scotland are out of the World Cup. Nonetheless the STUC, acting on the Congress motion – see below – has resolved to call a major protest involving leafleting, red card show […]
Benji Brown reports on the recent Aberdeen Climate Camp and where the campaign goes from here After a summer filled with heatwaves, wildfires, and drought, Europe is waking up to the terrifying realities of climate breakdown. Extreme conditions endured by many poorer communities for decades are now increasingly impacting the lives of citizens in rich […]
Ben Lawrence, director, Ithaka (2022) Reviewed by Jackie Bergson At its simplest, Ithaka tells the story of a father, John Shipton, who travelled halfway around the world to fight for his son, Julian Assange’s freedom. The documentary opens with footage of the inciting event which triggered his journey. This was the moment on 11 April […]
L. Douds, J. Harris and P. Whitewood (eds.) The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation 1917-41, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 Brendan McGeever Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2019 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan Russia’s liberatory 1917 revolution became, within two decades, more dictatorial than the system it had overthrown. For the right, this […]
Ben Tarnoff Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future, Verso, 2022, pp272, £8.99 Reviewed by John Wood A new and highly informative book by leading tech writer and activist, Ben Tarnoff, responds to a dilemma that the world is waking up to and which we must confront together: that the internet has […]
Neil Davidson, James Foley, and Ben Wray Scotland After Britain: The Two Souls of Scottish Independence, Verso, 2022, £12.99 pb Reviewed by Gordon Morgan The authors have attempted a massive task. First, to set out a theoretical framework of nationalism’s role in the post-crash 2008 world and tie this to earlier theories like Marx and Lenin. The […]
Jeff Sparrow Crimes against Nature – Capitalism and Global Heating, Scribe, 2021, pp240, £16.99 Reviewed by Charlotte Ahmed Jeff Sparrow is an Australian writer, broadcaster and journalist. This, his latest book, is a collection of polemical essays detailing examples of how capitalism has imposed ecological disaster on the worlds’ population in the name of growth. […]