Europe
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The battle of Hambacher Forest
Activists have occupied Hambacher Forest for six years to prevent environmental destruction through coal mining. Now, state, police and corporate forces are combining to oust them for good, writes Andrea Brock
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Maidan over: The balance of power in Ukraine
While Ukraine’s oligarchic elite aspires to become a ruling class, it is also the object of an ongoing competition between Russia and the west to draw it into their respective transnational capitalist classes, writes Marko Bojcun
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Thomas Sankara: an African leader with a message for Europe
On the 25th anniversary of Sankara’s assassination, Nick Dearden argues we need to remember him to challenge dominant views of Africa and fight our own debt crisis in Europe
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Beyond Berlusconi
Populist, authoritarian, xenophobic and sustained in office by a corrupt electoral system – but Silvio Berlusconi’s government isn’t the only one in Europe that can be described this way
