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Brussels conference lifts Ukraine solidarity to higher plane

Dick Nichols — 2025-04-11T09:49:06Z

The Brussels Solidarity with Ukraine conference on March 26–27drew together about 200 activists from a score of countries, in support of the Ukrainian people's national and social rights.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / Europe, Ukraine

“Our goal Is to win this war”

Dick Nichols, Viktoriia Pihul — 2022-08-31T07:21:20Z

“Our main goal now is to win this war. We understand that it can be protracted, and it is not a quick process, and there are hopes for it. What is critical to victory is not to let the war and all the terrible events in Ukraine disappear from the world's agenda.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Russia, Women, Ukraine

Denmark's Red-Greens: what answers when the climate crisis shakes up politics?

Dick Nichols, Søren Søndergaard — 2019-10-19T05:27:45Z

Former metal worker SÃ¸ren SÃ¸ndergaard, who presently represents the outer Copenhagen electorate of Gladsaxe in the Danish parliament, has a long history in radical left politics. In the 1980s, he was part of the daily leadership of the Socialist Workers Party, one of the three founding organisations of the Red-Green Alliance (RGA), known in Denmark as the Unity Listâ€”the Red-Greens.

- IV537 - October 2019 / Denmark

What explains the surge in support for independence?

Alister Black, Dick Nichols — 2014-09-14T07:27:15Z

This interview with Alister Black, editor of the Scottish independent Marxist review Frontline, member of the Scottish Socialist Party and activist in the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC), by Dick Nichols, European correspondent of Green Left Weekly and Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, was published on 9 September 2014.

- IV476 - September 2014 / Scotland, National question

Huge march advances struggle for peace, national rights

Dick Nichols — 2014-01-21T10:43:13Z

For decades the People's Party (PP) of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has believed it has a reliable gun in its political holsterâ€”unbending opposition to anything that could be portrayed as linked to Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA), the left-nationalist armed organisation responsible for more than 800 deaths in its 50-year-long fight against the Spanish state.

- IV468 - January 2014 / Spanish state, National question

As National Front support grows, strategy struggle erupts in Left Front

Dick Nichols — 2013-11-11T12:27:40Z

November 6, 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — October was a month of sharp shifts in French politics. On October 4, a poll in the French weekly Nouvel Observateur showed the xenophobic and racist National Front (FN) of Marine Le Pen leading voting intentions for the 2014 European elections with the support of 24% of those interviewedâ€”up 3% in six months.

- IV466 - November 2013 / France