Category: International Relations
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Portugal Left Challenges the Trump Tariffs: Protecting Employment, Creating Productive Capacities
Donald Trump began a blackmail strategy with tariffs that has ended in a trade war with several countries. Now, he has paused some tariffs for 90 days and the European … Keep reading »
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The Carnation Revolution of Portugal Today: The New Challenge from the Far-Right
In an unmistakable style in the form of a provocative lecture in Lisbon in 2024, at the age of 84 Father Martins Júnior asked: “50 years later, what irony! There … Keep reading »
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Anschluss, Schulterschluss or Concrete Internationalism?
In these turbulent and rapidly shifting times, we often search for quick answers. “How to respond to Trump 2.0?” is a question that calls for an immediate response here in … Keep reading »
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Building Up Germany’s Die Linke After the Election!
Through anti-fascist and ecological class politics, Die Linke can become Germany’s strongest party to the left of centre Keep reading »
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Global Alignments in the Palestinian Issue: The Most Unequal Confrontation in History
It could be said that the Palestinian struggle is one of the most unequal confrontations in history because the Palestinians are not only facing the present ultra-right Israeli state and … Keep reading »
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Ban EU Trade and Business with Israel’s Illegal Settlements
Dear President von der Leyen, We, the undersigned human rights organizations, trade unions, and civil society groups urge the European Commission to take action to ban all trade and business … Keep reading »
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Canada Must Oppose Trump Plan for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) urges the Canadian government to condemn in the strongest terms US President Trump’s plans to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people … Keep reading »
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International Solidarity with Palestinians
INAUGURAL JOINT STATEMENT The Hague Group, January 31, 2025 We, the Representatives from the Governments of Belize, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Republic of Colombia, Republic of Cuba, Republic of Honduras, … Keep reading »
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World Bank and IMF — Keeping Pakistan in Shackles
On 11th December 2024, while replying to a question in Pakistan’s National Assembly, the federal finance minister admitted for the first time that since 2019, and while under an International … Keep reading »
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Why Greenland? How Trump Learned to Love the Bomb
As Donald Trump takes office, he has revived one of his most audacious ideas: acquiring Greenland. When asked directly if he would rule out using military force to take Greenland … Keep reading »
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Solidarity with Palestine and the Struggle from Below
Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza shows no sign of ending more than a year after its beginning, while the Israeli occupation army and settlers have continued to … Keep reading »
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Fortress Europe Gets More Guns and Deeper Moats with von der Leyen II
After six months of political wrangling with the European Parliament, the new von der Leyen Commission started its work on 1 December 2024. Is the European Commission the “government,” the … Keep reading »