Climate change is a health emergency, and it’s time for radical action
Ele Dow (third from left) with MedSin members protesting Edinburgh University's investments in fossil fuels, February 2015. Image: Ric Lander Climate change is a health emergency. I am a medical…
Greek Green appointed deputy environment minister
Photo: Wikimedia A Greek Green politician has been re-appointed as the country’s deputy environment minister, following the victory of the left-wing Syriza coalition in Sunday’s national election. Giannis Tsironis is…
Finland – the social contract to wreck the welfare state
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä - everybody's best friend? Photo: Ulkoministeriö Last week, over 30 000 people gathered in the centre of Helsinki, Finland to demonstrate against the Finnish Government's labour…
Die Grünen – 20 years past the crossroads
The German Greens - changing with the times. Photo by Michael Reuter The German Green Party, or to give it its full name, Alliance ’90/The Greens (Bündis 90/Die Grünen), deserves…
We belong here! Hungarian activists fight back in refugee crisis
Romani activists from the Ide tartozunk! (We belong here!) network show their support to refugees in front of the Hungarian Parliament. Hungary and Austria are in spitting distance from each…
Green Party’s allies in Turkey call for international solidarity after headquarters set on fire
Diyarbakir HDP Meeting 5th June 2015. Photo by Dogan Ucar. The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey has called for international solidarity and support to bring peace to the country,…
Jean Lambert MEP: the refugee crisis demands a coherent and strategic response
We can either throw our hands up at overwhelming human misery, or we can rally and do something – quickly. On Monday Britain announced meagre plans to accept refugees from…
Gravely disappointed with the white moderate? You may have a point.
President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., after handing him one of the pens used in signing the Civil Rights Act of July 2, 1964…
Foreign relations must be central in the EU referendum debate—just ask Turkey
View image | The EU referendum debate has, so far, failed to really get going. We are all having too much fun with a pantomime and increasingly hilarious Labour leadership…
Yemen Civil War: another tale of two factions
View image | Yemen is in a state of civil war, more than three-thousand people have died, and the country is divided roughly in half between two factions both claiming…