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Tag: Europe

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Labour Must Stand Firm with Ukraine, by Chris Ford – 23 January 2026

From Chartist Magazine The so-called 28-point plan (drafted in part by the Russian regime and presented by the US) cannot serve as the basis for a just

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Gender Under Siege: Slow Violence and Antigender Mobilisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Ethnonationalist Landscape, by Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović  – 23 January 2026

This article explores antigender mobilisation – a global phenomenon that challenges and undermines gender equality – with a focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Using

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Interviews

Beyond Melancholic Geopolitics. Interview with Sinistra per l’Ucraina – 30 December 2025

A laboratory for a Left of resistance and solidarity against status-quo pacifism. The collective Sinistra per l’Ucraina (“Left for Ukraine”) was formed in Italy in

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Statements

An Open Letter to the UK Holocaust Memorial Day Trust – 18 December 2025

An open letter by a group of UK Holocaust studies and Jewish studies scholars. For context see this news item. Dear members of the board

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The Difficult Truth about Antisemitism in the UK, by Brendan McGeever, Ben Gidley, David Feldman – 21 October 2025

From The Prospect Why don’t we acknowledge that there are different ways of measuring the prevalence of anti-Jewish prejudice? The murderous attack this month on

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Anti-immigration Rhetoric Is Hurting Ukrainians Too, by Francesca Barca – 10 October 2025

In Romania, Poland, Hungary and Czechia, far-right and populist parties are cynically using Ukrainian refugees as a political football. It mirrors what is happening in

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No, “Gender, Race, and Climate” Are Not “Middle-Class Preoccupations”, by an RMT member – 30 September 2025

RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey has published a new article in Tribune, arguing that the disconnection between the working class and the organised left is partly down to

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East Germany – The Promised Land of the AfD, by Thomas Klikauer – 22 August 2025

Given the seemingly endless string of AfD successes across Germany – particularly in the East – there is a very real possibility of the neo-fascist

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SHARPE Festival Is Holding Firm in Slovakia’s Culture War, by John Bell – 19 August 2025

From shado Spaces of free expression are becoming all the more precious as the country veers closer towards illiberalism There is a phrase that has

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Diane Abbott’s Suspension Highlights the Complexity of Different Types of Racism, by Ben Gidley, David Feldman and Brendan McGeever – 8 August 2025

From Political Quarterly Blog […] On a deeper conceptual level, the complex history of “race” and racialisation shows that apparent skin colour is just one

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Trans Joy, by Echo Fortune – 6 August 2025

In September 2019, 1,500 people assembled in London against the onslaught of anti-trans opinion and hate cults.  On July 26, 2025, that number rose above

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Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism. Presentations by Audrey Truschke and Ivan Kalmar – 3 June 2025

Audrey Truschke is Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Ivan Kalmar is Professor of Anthropology at the University

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Victory Day: Three Interventions from the Left, by the Posle Editorial Collective – 7 May 2025

What do the lessons of WWII mean today? What stance should the international left take towards its legacy? And is it possible to resist the

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Speaking Out Against Islamophobia Now Risks Accusations of Extremism, by Haoues Seniguer – 14 April 2025

From La Croix International Political scientist Haoues Seniguer explores how Muslim voices are increasingly silenced by suspicion, as public discourse blurs the line between religious

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Interviews

Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France: Interview with Charlène Calderaro – 25 March 2025

This interview is based on Charlène Calderaro’s article Beyond Instrumentalization: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France published in Politics & Gender (2025). For readers less familiar with

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People Self-Organise: Assemblies Everywhere Across Serbia, by Mašina – 20 March 2025

Before the protest in Belgrade, students in blockades unequivocally called on the citizens of Serbia to do the same as them – to self-organise and

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Trump, Putin and the War in Ukraine: Europe’s Painful Awakening to the Rise of Global Fascism, by Hanna Perekhoda – 23 February 2025

For the past few weeks, and even more so in recent days, a state of paralysis seems to have gripped the European political landscape. Yet,

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Antisemitism, Racism and Empire: Past and Present, by Tereza Hendl, Yudit Namer, Anna Zielinska – 16 January 2025

In our view, Sina Arnold and Juliane Karakayali make a compelling argument that research on antisemitism and racism need to be interconnected. We agree with

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Instrumentalised Hostilities, by Sina Arnold and Michael Kiefer – 14 June 2024

Ideas of a specific form of ‘Muslim antisemitism’ carry the risk of unjustified blanket suspicion. Both antisemitism and anti-Muslim racism must be taken seriously, regardless

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Lectures Videos

White But Not Quite: Racism By and Racism Against Eastern Europeans. Lecture by Ivan Kalmar – 20 November 2022

Racial capitalism requires that the subaltern periphery, providing cheap labour and new markets, be placed behind an imagined racial barrier, so that the full protection

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Between Marginalization and Instrumentalization: Anti-Eastern European and Anti-Slavic Racism, by Hans-Christian Petersen – 18 August 2022

Germany has a long history of colonialism and racism in Eastern Europe. To this day, people who are perceived as “Eastern” face discrimination and exclusion.

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What the Halle Shooting Tells Us About the European Far Right Today, by Ben Gidley – 24 October 2019

We recorded the sixth episode of the Talking Europe vlog series in October 2019. A week before, during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, a gunman, heavily armed

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