The streets of Paris have become the scene of police repression, attacks on the press and popular resistance. Reports of police brutality are innumerable, as today in France the rights to protest and to freedom of information are under attack. But these demonstrations against pension reform have led to the ‘class war’ regaining body and spirit.
Europe
A crash course to conflict
Across the British Council, especially in Spain, managerial relationships with staff are slipping and storm clouds are gathering. Busmens’ holidays in the sun? Many think that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is a bit of an industry for extended holiday makers. There we are, off gallivanting around the […]
Europe, territory and a period of protest
The strength of protest that marked the start of 2023, and stepped up in the first half of February, was not a chance occurrence. In addition to projections of poor growth, we face the ever-increasing concentration of wealth, especially among the big multinationals, and highly uneven redistribution of income. […]
Portugal, the forgotten memories of colonialism
Debunking the belief that the Portuguese were more benign colonizers than the Spanish in South America, Ariel de Bigault points out that Brazil is one of the few countries that was totally based on slavery. Trafficking: tearing people out of their homelands to force them to work in another continent was invented by the Portuguese.
The fascism of today’s far-right
For capitalism’s apologists it is usual to understand fascism as a social order completely alien to the system, as an unfortunate event occurring as a result of bourgeoise democracy’s deep crisis. Juan Diego García But fascism is merely another form of the capitalist order, a formula the bourgeoisie […]
















