“A Heavy Blow”
The split in Die Linke brings years of internal conflict to an end and offers the party the chance to move on. But Wagenknecht’s departure will also downgrade Die Linke’s parliamentary privileges and with that significant resources.
The split in Die Linke brings years of internal conflict to an end and offers the party the chance to move on. But Wagenknecht’s departure will also downgrade Die Linke’s parliamentary privileges and with that significant resources.
The global energy democracy movement recognises that the energy transition is an urgent opportunity to reclaim our energy systems from the market and put participation, human rights, and equality at the heart. Read and sign Energy Democracy Movement Declaration!
In response to the rising numbers of migrants and the increasingly xenophobic discourse across the EU, member states have begun renegotiating the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), restricting the ways that asylum seekers can apply for protection and making it easier for states to deport migrants to so-called “safe third countries”. Perhaps most surprisingly, the German government, led by the Social Democrats and Greens, have been major protagonists of these reforms, despite campaigning on a humane migration policy only two years before.
The PSOE and Sumar have not developed a discourse whereby the “social” issues of the left-wing urban bourgeoisie are set against the social issues of the working classes. On the contrary, they have taken responsibility for their choices in the face of the right-wing offensive. They have continued to defend progressive values while stressing the importance of putting in place ambitious social measures, and this has in no way affected their electoral results among the working classes.
The struggle for women's rights has always generated reactionary waves from all those who refuse to question their privileges, relinquish power and unsettle the patriarchal structures on which capitalism is based. The far right, intent on reversing social policies and agreements on human rights as well as halting any progress being made, has put into action a whole raft of strategies being implemented across the globe.
Nearly ten years ago, on 3 October 2013, a ship bound from the Libyan port city of Misrata sank off the coast of Lampedusa. 366 people died. The then-Migration Commissioner Cecilia Malmström broke down in tears at the sight of the children’s coffins. After the shipwreck off Pylos that claimed 500 lives, Malmström’s current successor Ylva Johansson spoke of the need to reinforce border protection. The symbolism could not be starker.
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