17/03/2020
To save lives, we must get rid of the neoliberal austerity of the EU, New Democracy and SYRIZA
Paremvasi, Political organisation of the communist left in Greece
Shield the healthcare system and the medical staff now!
19/12/2019
Interview with Maxim Goldarb, leader of the Union of Left Forces Ukraine
Wilhelm Langthaler
Maxim Goldarb has been elected new chairman of the Union of Left Forces of Ukraine. Before he served as a public prosecutor in Kiev. His predecessor Vasilj Volga was beaten by a Nazi when addressing a press conference while the police was watching. Volga has been guest of the Anti-imperialist Camp in Italy in 2016.
05/12/2019
How does the local council ensure freedom of expression?
Open letter to the Chairman of the Vienna City Council Thomas Reindl and the President of the Vienna Parliament, Ernst Woller
20/11/2019
Letter from Austrian prison by Abu Habel, Palestinian sentenced for life imprisonment based on a phony political trial
In writing these words, I have dug up a grave in my prison cell, and have cut off all communication with life itself -- a man who has spent his entire youth in Israeli dungeons.
05/07/2019
A Greek comment on the European election results
by Paremvasi
The results of the recent triple elections (european, regional, local) signify the end of an era, a process that has been going on since 2015. The social and the organized left find it difficult to accept it. After the referendum in 2015, Greece has entered a new, tougher and more conservative political reality, in which two similar parties (SYRIZA and New Democracy) pursue similar policies, the Left counts but never heals its wounds and the extreme right raises in prominence, changing expressions and forms.
23/05/2019
A peace delegation from Austria went to Donetsk and Lugansk
Wilhelm Langthaler
A delegation of nine peace and neutrality activists went to the rebel areas in eastern Ukraine on the occasion of the celebrations of Soviet victory over German Fascism on May 9th as well as the fifth anniversary of the founding of the republics in the Donbass.
07/05/2019
By: Between the Lines – Ludwig Watzal
„The old will die, and the young will forget“ as David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, once said. Haneen Zoabi presented herself as the living counterexample. Zoabi focuses on Palestinians living in Israel which hold Israeli citizenship. She offered a quite astonishing inside view of „Israel’s democracy“.
25/04/2019
Borotba
The defeat of Poroshenko’s regime in the April 21 elections was the logical outcome of a government based on neoliberal reforms and stunning nationalist propaganda. The people of Ukraine expressed their distrust of corrupt officials hiding behind patriotic rhetoric.
01/03/2019
International Coalition
May 2, 2019, will mark five years since a right-wing mob attack on the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine, a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of at least 42 people and more than 100 injured. Today there still is no justice in sight for the mourners of the victims.
06/11/2018
A proportional sentence? Freedom of expression under threat
by Wilhelm Langthaler
In the spring of 2018, a young Palestinian from Gaza was charged for terrorism and sentenced to life imprisonment by a jury at a local court in Krems, Austria. The sparse media reports indicate that the alleged terror attack, which did not actually happen, was intended to be carried out in occupied Jerusalem. The witnesses, juvenile Palestinians, were not actually present at the court in Austria, but gave their statements via Skype from an Israeli gaol.