BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The war in Ukraine is a war over Europe
Fearful of the growing links through energy supply and infrastructure plans like the Belt and Road Initiative, the US has sought to drive a wedge between Europe and the East once more — the current conflict is part of that, explains VIJAY PRASHAD
A Ukrainian soldier walks past the vertical tail fin of a Russian Su-34 bomber lying in a damaged building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 8, 2022.
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
THE war in Ukraine is not a simple war. This is not a war merely between two neighbours about a border dispute. It is a complex war, a war not only between Russia and Ukraine but also a war that involves the US and Nato — the Trojan Horse of the US. The battlefield is Ukraine, but it is not only Ukraine. The battlefield, in fact, is all of Europe.
Europe as a subordinate ally of the US
At the end of the second world war, the US extended its military power through a series of collective security arrangements — the Rio Pact of 1947 to the Baghdad Pact of 1955. One of these was Nato, formed in 1949.
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