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Record-breaking heatwave in Europe: Does the continent have a new climate?

Edward Chen — 2026-07-17T08:57:16Z

As Europe experiences its second [now the third] unprecedented heatwave of the year, breaking temperature records, many are asking the same questions: Is this the new normal? Has Europe's climate changed radically? Asia's oceans are also breaking heat records: What does this mean for extreme weather events?

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Europe, Climate

Heatwave Reflections: We Won't Return to the World Before, But We Still Have the Possibility of Living, and Living Well

Daniel Tanuro — 2026-06-22T09:42:33Z

As Europe endures its second spring heatwave of the year, the established powers are not confronting capital's grip on energy, finance, and agriculture — they are tightening it. Daniel Tanuro, Belgian ecosocialist and author of The Impossibility of Green Capitalism, argues that what is happening is not accidental but systemic: fossil investment grows, G7 leaders congratulate climate deniers, and even the European Commission dismantles its own inadequate green measures. The Holocene is over; (…)

- Features / Europe, Climate, Ecosocialism

Europe in 2025

Éric Toussaint — 2026-01-17T22:07:50Z

“The political situation in Europe is very bad.”

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Europe

Ukraine: To avoid warlike escalation, weapons for Ukraine!

Gin Vola, Elias Vola — 2025-04-18T09:00:23Z

Since the abrupt reversal of US policy towards Ukraine, the Russian concessions obtained by President Trump have been non-existent. The ceasefire on energy infrastructure has not been implemented; worse, bombing on Ukrainian territory has never been so intense, while the opening of a corridor to resume maritime trade in the Black Sea only benefits Russia.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / United States (USA), Europe, Ukraine

For a campaign against rearmament, wars and imperialism

Gippò Mukendi Ngandu — 2025-04-15T10:30:42Z

We are entering a new era. Trump's return to the White House is so disruptive that it is causing the historic crisis of transatlantic relations as they were constituted after the Second World War. The new Republican and reactionary administration aims to exploit the new situation of ‘geopolitical chaos' to revive the role of the United States of America through an authoritarian turn, based on an alliance with the big hi-tech capitalists such as Elon Musk, and through a new foreign policy that focuses on imperialist national interests.

- Rearming Europe / Italy, Europe, War drive/Anti-war movements

In support of “synchronized global disarmament”

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-04-13T20:29:43Z

At a time when everything is spiralling out of control in the East, when alliances as evil as the Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin duo are being forged, and when our leaders are advocating rearmament, we wanted to take some time to think about it. With Gilbert Achcar, a specialist in international relations and professor at the University of London, we discussed ways of supporting Ukraine while rejecting a generalized war.[Gaëlle Desnos-CQFD]

- Rearming Europe / United States (USA), Europe, Russia, China, War drive/Anti-war movements

Europe in the Trump-Putin Axis Trap

Left Bloc — 2025-04-12T12:48:37Z

‘For the Left Bloc, there are various imperialisms and "none of them will have a progressive role because all act according to the interests of their capitalist elites". Therefore, "recognising this reality is vital in elaborating an internationalist proposal capable of offering a future to humanity and conceiving a democratic order of peoples."'

- Rearming Europe / Europe, Portugal, War drive/Anti-war movements

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

For an anti-capitalist and internationalist security policy, against the Trump-Musk-Putin axis and neoliberal authoritarian European governments:

Gauche anticapitaliste/SAP Antikapitalisten — 2025-04-10T16:01:14Z

“In this context, the debate on security, military and defence issues has gripped all the countries of Europe. Putin's regime poses a real threat to Eastern Europe and to democratic and social rights across the continent, through its alliances with the far right. Similarly, Trump, Musk and Vance, like the far right in Europe and elsewhere, are showing their willingness to attack head-on any social and progressive policy, however minimal, such as environmental regulations, the fight against discrimination or workers' social and trade union rights.”

- Rearming Europe / Europe, Belgium, War drive/Anti-war movements

For an intransigent opposition to the rearmament of capitalist Europe

Anticapitalistas — 2025-03-30T13:01:34Z

The drums of war are already generating a deafening din. Governments, companies and the media are united in repeating in unison warmongering slogans reminiscent of the turbulent beginnings of the 20th century. Defend Europe, defend its values, boost the military industry and even bring back compulsory military service. Europe is in danger, it stands alone in a hostile world and must rearm. Dark and toxic winds are blowing, which will sweep away any prospect of emancipation.

- Rearming Europe / Europe, Spanish state, War drive/Anti-war movements