A ‘plausible genocide’ that could be ended easily The US and even Britain could force a ceasefire by halting arms sales to Israel, writes KEVIN OVENDEN, and now the staggering failure to take any meaningful action is weighing heavily on both country’s political establishment
Friday 08th Apr 2022 Zelensky, the Azov Battalion and the Greek parliament The Ukrainian president’s decision to platform the far-right military force backfired dramatically in a country where memories of Golden Dawn are still fresh and the public are questioning the motives of those involved in geopolitical power play, says KEVIN OVENDEN
Tuesday 05th Apr 2022 Orban and Vucic triumphant: liberalism in peril KEVIN OVENDEN looks at how the Hungarian and Serbian elections failed to go the way the political centre wanted — and why that is as much the fault of the neoliberal opposition as it is due to support for the hard right
Wednesday 02nd Mar 2022 Athens demonstration calls for 'money for health not frigates' Huge demonstrations have begun in Greece in opposition to the right-wing government's warmongering and needless spending on weapons, reports KEVIN OVENDEN
Thursday 24th Feb 2022 A grotesque auction in bellicose rhetoric In a multipolar world Nato’s repeated violations of other countries’ borders were bound to provoke a reaction, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
Friday 11th Feb 2022 The mirage of social democracy’s ‘resurgence’ A number of recent European election results show not a return to the centre, but a gathering of an increasing number of fragments out of which to construct governments, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Friday 19th Nov 2021 Events on the Polish border are part of a bigger picture The latest refugee crisis is but an aspect of the ever-tightening Fortress Europe policy that began to take shape in 1991-2 with the end of the cold war and the dawn of a supposed ‘liberal golden age,’ writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Friday 01st Oct 2021 Today's political realities must be the left’s priority Regardless of what politicians say does or does not come up ‘on the doorstep,’ our movement needs to engage in real, practical and mass agitation that’s rooted in working people’s lives, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
Friday 20th Aug 2021 The war on terror is, was and will be a veil for imperialist expansion The seeds of the disintegration of the West’s occupation of Afghanistan lay in its ham-fisted and self-serving character, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Friday 25th Jun 2021 The labour movement must not fall into the Tory ‘culture war’ trap There is cunning in what some Tories are doing but there are also profound weaknesses – the left needs to be wise to this, says KEVIN OVENDEN
Tuesday 11th May 2021 Talk of 'vision' won't save Labour. Our movement faces international crisis KEVIN OVENDEN says last week's Labour rout has deep roots – reversing it means rebuilding mass politics