ON 17th January, Donald Trump announced that he would hit the UK and seven other European countries with tariffs rising to 25% unless they supported his ambition to acquire Greenland. The new tariffs threaten a sharp escalation of global tensions at a time of geopolitical instability, with tens of thousands of Danes and Greenlanders protestingContinue reading “Green Socialist 114”
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Green Socialist 108
Toby Abse sees a warning for the future in the outcome of the recent EU elections The June 2024 European elections may well prove to be a turning point in the history of the European Union. On the one hand, the majority in the European Parliament that elected Ursula von der Leyen as the President ofContinue reading “Green Socialist 108”
In Chuhuiv
Green Socialist editor Hugh Barnes on Putin’s threats
Putin’s savvy genius
James Bond Scotland Yard Special Report from Bucha
Nenets nightmare
Ada Wordsworth looks at what the climate crisis means for Russia’s reindeer herders THE indigenous Nenets people are nomads living in the icy tundra of Russia’s far north. For a thousand years Nenets reindeer herders have migrated to summer pastures on the Yamal Peninsula above the Arctic Circle, returning south in winter. This 800-mile journeyContinue reading “Nenets nightmare”
The Socialist Suffragette
Rachel Holmes celebrates the life of Sylvia Pankhurst IN 1896, when she was thirteen, Sylvia Pankhurst was taken by her father to the Mosley Hotel in her home town of Manchester to meet Eleanor Marx, the foremother of socialist-feminism and Karl’s youngest daughter, at an event held in honour of William Liebknecht, leader of theContinue reading “The Socialist Suffragette”
Holidays in hell
A new cold war in China
Hugh Barnes considers the plight of the Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang THE rise of China as an economic, political and military superpower is a fact of history. Within the next five years, the Chinese economy will overtake its American counterpart to become the largest in the world. Until a few years ago its rapid growth andContinue reading “A new cold war in China”
George Blake (1922-2020)
The Last Man
Homage to Ukraina
In Kharkiv Drawing by John-Paul Flintoff
Alliance for Green Socialism 