Europe

  • Young woman holds placard that reads 'The Sixth Commandment: Don't Kill', beside Russian police officers

    Russian feminist anti-war resistance

    Activist Asya Maruket highlights the variety of ways in which Russian women are resisting Russia’s ‘special operation’ in Ukraine

  • Hungarian Prime Minister speaking behind a lectern with the logo of the European People's Party (EPP) on it

    Hungary’s illiberal education

    Victor Orbán’s far-right government in Hungary sees higher education as critical to the consolidation of the ruling Fidesz party’s grip on society. Dorit Geva reports

  • From left: Bruce Kent and Kate Hudson outside the Russian Embassy, Spring 2022; Bruce Kent at the budget day protest, 2012

    Putin, NATO, and the nuclear threat

    As Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine, Bruce Kent tells Hilary Wainwright about the culpability of NATO – and how different countries should be responding

  • A large rally of marchers holding Russian and Ukrainian flags and messages of peace

    We must unite for peace and human rights across the old divides

    Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dmitri Makarov and Mary Kaldor call for solidarity and dialogue between anti-war movements and across Cold War divides

  • Rows of candles lit for a vigil outside the Home Office

    Little Amal, Channel deaths and cruelty by design

    People cross the channel in small boats because we give them no other choice, says Zrinka Bralo

  • A promotional image for the 1936 People's Olympiad includes an illustration of three people with different colour skin and clothes, holding a banner reading 'Olimpiad Popular'

    The Socialist Olympics of 1936

    Radical workers’ sporting organisations and the 1936 People’s Olympiad illustrate the role of sport in fighting oppression, writes Uma Arruga i López

  • A crowd of protestors at the 2023 'Ireland for all' rally behind a banner reading 'Limerick Against Racism'

    Just Irish

    Emigration may be at the core of Irish national memory but this has not translated to into a welcoming embrace for its immigrant population, writes Ola Majekodunmi