The German state’s ongoing repression of the pro-Palestine movement, especially in Berlin, has reached levels that concern human rights organisations such as Amnesty International, international media, and even Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories.
Germany’s Enslavement to Its Past Kept It Silent on Gaza for Far Too Long
18 June 2025, byGermany has betrayed the memory of the Holocaust and its lessons. A country that saw its highest task as not to forget has forgotten. A country that told itself that it would never remain silent is silent. A country that once said "Never Again," and now: "again," with arms, with funding, with silence. There is no country that should be better than Germany at "discerning nauseating processes." Every German knows much more about them than Yair Golan. Here in Israel they are in full swing, yet Germany has not yet recognized them for what they are. It was only recently that it woke up too late and to too little effect.
‘Brazil must set the example’: Unions, MPs urge Lula to cut ties with Israel over Gaza genocide
18 June 2025, byBrazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva needs to shift from words to action and break ties with Israel over its ongoing war on Gaza — that is the message coming from a growing number of trade unions, left parliamentarians, intellectuals and artists.
Inside Die Linke
7 June 2025, by ,After geopolitical upheaval and a snap election in February brought a new coalition to power, the political situation in Germany is rapidly changing. Even as the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is on the rise, Germany’s left-wing party, Die Linke surged in the most recent election to over double its prior size. What are the implications?
After Twenty Years, Québec Solidaire Faces an Existential Crisis
7 June 2025, by“The German Example Shows the Way to Reject Centralising Centrism.”
‘No one has strengthened the Ukrainian far-right more than Putin’
2 June 2025, by ,“Movchan delves into the current state of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the role of the far right in both countries, and the challenges Ukraine’s left forces face in building solidarity with their struggles internationally.”
Evolution of the Trade Union Movement in Ukraine
28 May 2025, by“The Ukrainian trade union movement is at a historic crossroads. To continue to operate with outdated models and methods is to embark on the road to insignificance and decline. Faced with the profound transformation of society and post-war reconstruction, the trade unions must choose: extinction or modernisation.”
Trump and Ukraine
27 May 2025, byThe televised clash between Zelensky and Trump on February 28, 2025 will in the eyes of some sections of the global public (even in India) raise serious doubts about the widespread claim that the Ukrainian government has been a ‘proxy’ of the US against Russia and that the threat of NATO expansion was the primary reason for Russia’s invasion.
“Ukraine’s Fate Raises the Issue of the Rights and Sovereignty of Small States”
27 May 2025, byIlya Budraitskis, historian and author, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the most important voices of Russian left-wing intellectual thought, speaks to "Epochi" about the imperialist logic that governs the talks between the USA and Russia regarding the end of the war in Ukraine, the objectives of both sides, and the stance of the Russian Left towards a potential peace agreement.
Trump’s Mass Deportation Wave
23 May 2025, byKey to Trump’s Make America Great Again pledge was the promise to deport millions of immigrants. During both his presidential campaigns he identified immigrants as “terrorists, murderers, rapists” or “individuals let loose from mental institutions.” Once elected again, he promised to seal the U.S.-Mexico border and deport several million people.
