Europe

‘Militarization Of Rules And Minds’ In Europe Threatens Workers And Welfare

January 20, 2026 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Austerity, Europe, Keynesianism, Militarization, ReArm Europe, Wars and Militarism

The militarization of Europe is advancing rapidly, with everything from public budgets to media narratives increasingly shaped by a war-driven logic. This was one of the key warnings raised by trade unionists, left politicians, and peace activists during a discussion organized by the International Peace Bureau and the No to War – No to NATO network. At the level of the European Union, Belgian MEP Marc Botenga warned that existing rules and safeguards are being pushed aside to accelerate the new military-industrial strategy. He pointed to recent discussions around so-called omnibus legislative packages, particularly proposals designed to ease the operations of the arms industry at the expense of labor rights, environmental protections, and social welfare systems.

Dockworkers In Mediterranean Ports Call Feb. 6 Antiwar Strike

January 3, 2026 Roberto Casanova, Workers' World. Resist! Anti-war Movement, Europe, Mediterranean, Ports, Strikes

Against a backdrop of growing militarization in the old continent, dockworkers and port workers’ unions in Europe and the Mediterranean have launched an international call for strike action and mobilization. This day of protest, scheduled for Feb. 6, 2026, seeks to reject any compliance with the transport of weapons and war material, while strongly opposing the devastating consequences of the “war economy” on labor rights and peace. This initiative stems from the declaration signed by several unions on Sept. 26, 2025, in Genoa, entitled “Dockworkers and port workers do not work for war.”

Europe Marks International Day Of Solidarity With Palestine

December 2, 2025 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. Resist! Europe, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Militarization, Palestine Solidarity

The Palestine solidarity movement in Europe again brought record numbers to the streets on the UN’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, November 29, reaffirming demands for an end to government complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine. Hundreds of thousands marched across the region, with demonstrations in London and Rome each reaching an estimated 100,000 participants. “On this day, people around the world express their support for the inalienable rights that are currently denied to Palestinians: the right to live free from discrimination, the right to self-determination, and the right to return to their lands,” the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) wrote on social media.

What Defeat Looks Like

November 30, 2025 Stefan Moore, Consortium News. Educate! Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wars and Militarism

European leaders are in panic mode. They are scrambling to ensure that Trump’s 28-point peace plan that they believe favours Russia can be revised to give Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky an equal say alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is delusional thinking. Whether or not Zelensky and his U.S./NATO allies, who have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into this conflict care to accept it, Russia is the indisputable victor in this terrible 14-year war, beginning with the 2014 Ukrainian civil war, which Russia entered in 2022. Moscow will call the shots when it finally ends. As in Potsdam at the end of WWII, the only path forward now is working out the terms of defeat.

Football Fans March In Support As Palestine Plays First European Match

November 16, 2025 Alex MacDonald, Middle East Eye. Resist! Basque, Europe, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Soccer, Spain

Thousands marched in support of Palestine in the Spanish city of Bilbao as Palestinian footballers played their first European match against the Basque Country team. The Basque Country team beat the Palestine team 3-0 in the friendly match, which was marked by shows of solidarity between both teams. Palestinians and the Basque have long shared political sympathies, with both involved in nationalist struggles for independence. The two teams celebrated side by side, arms around each other, on the San Mames pitch in front of more than 50,000 spectators.

Maccabi’s Birmingham Match Met With Protests

November 9, 2025 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. Resist! Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), Europe, Far-right in Europe, Football, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Keir Starmer, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Tel Aviv

Protests took place in Birmingham on Thursday, November 6 as local football club Aston Villa faced Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv. The match took place after authorities banned visiting supporters over security concerns. Palestine solidarity groups and anti-racist organizations called for the match to be fully canceled, citing the violent record of Maccabi supporters and the club’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. “Allowing football clubs from a state committing genocide and implementing apartheid to compete in international competitions normalizes its atrocities, and sends the signal that there are no consequences for them,” the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) stated ahead of the match.

Dockworkers Across Europe Meet To Call A General Strike For Gaza

October 1, 2025 Petra Lou, Tommaso Luzzi and Camille Bianchi, Left Voice. Resist! Anti-war Movement, Class Struggle, Dockworkers, Europe, Gaza, General Strike, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity

In a union hall overlooking the sea and stacks of shipping containers in the Port of Genoa, delegations of dockworkers from both sides of the Mediterranean gathered — answering the call of their colleagues in Genoa — for an international assembly. The objective: to organize against the genocide in Palestine and Israel’s rearmament, building on the day of strikes and mobilizations that shook Italy on September 22. It was with emotion that Giovanni Ceravolo, a leader in the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) for the port of Livorno, concluded this international meeting: We will be able to call for a first day of Europe-wide mobilization against weapons, against genocide, against rearmament. All this embodies our future tasks. The assemblies that brought us together these two days are the first step.

Trump Wages Economic War On US Allies; BRICS Builds Alternative System

September 18, 2025 Ben Norton and Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report BRICS, China, Colonialism, Donald Trump, Europe, European Union (EU), History, Japan, Korea, NATO, Neoliberalism, Russia, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), South Korea, Tariffs, US Imperialism

The US government has always had a very aggressive foreign policy. The United States has intervened in dozens of countries all around the world. But what is unique about Donald Trump is that many of his aggressive policies not only target US adversaries like China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba, but also longtime US allies. Trump has imposed high tariffs that have hurt the economies of key US allies such as Japan, South Korea, and Europe. In fact, the details of the agreement that Trump imposed on Japan are quite shocking. This was reported on by the Financial Times, which wrote that “Japan confronts the increased price of US friendship”. Although I would say it’s not so much “friendship”; rather it’s vassalage. Japan has been militarily occupied by the US for 80 years, and we’re now seeing the cost of this imperial relationship.

Rural Europe Takes Action: Food System Lessons From Marburg

September 17, 2025 ARC2020 Staff, Resilience. Create! Europe, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Local Economy

Summer’s flowers hang dried in neat bunches around the workshop room of the Ecological Folk High School in Grzybów, as changemakers from France, Germany and Poland gather in the early days of winter 2024. What can rural communities do in the face of the ecological, social and economic crises society faces today, and what role can cross-border exchange between local actors play? These questions marked the coming together of what we have come to call the rural Weimar triangle, a grassroots counterpart – and perhaps challenge to – the high-level diplomatic agreement between the governments of these three countries. Villages, towns and cities, after all, have a lot to offer in response to today’s global challenges.

ManiFiesta And Fête De l’Humanité Open Season Of Resistance

September 15, 2025 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. Organize! Al-Awda Hospital, Europe, Global Sumud Flotilla, ManiFiesta 2025, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

In the face of what Peter Mertens, Secretary General of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA), called “a summer of humiliation for the European Union” – marked by EU leaders agreeing to increased NATO spending, a harmful tariff deal with the United States, and failed attempts to ingratiate themselves with the Trump administration over the war in Ukraine – movements across the region are preparing for a new season of struggles. Early September gatherings such as ManiFiesta in Belgium and La Fête de l’Humanité in France have become key moments for progressives to come together, anticipating and confronting the challenges ahead.

Universities Worldwide Sever Ties With Israeli Academia, Netherlands To Boycott Eurovision

September 13, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), Europe, Gaza, Genocide, Ireland, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, The Netherlands

Universities and scholarly associations across Europe and South America have announced suspensions of cooperation with Israeli institutions, citing their role in aiding the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, The Guardian reported on 13 September. Trinity College Dublin announced this summer that it was ending collaboration with Israeli partners. Meanwhile, the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil had already canceled a planned innovation summit with an Israeli university last year. Similar actions were announced by institutions in Norway, Belgium, and Spain. The University of Amsterdam confirmed it was terminating its student exchange with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The European Association of Social Anthropologists also said it would refuse cooperation with Israeli bodies and called on its members to follow the same path.

Trump Forces Europe, Korea, Japan To Subsidize And Move Industry To US

September 13, 2025 Michael Hudson, Geopolitical Economy. Educate! Australia, Donald Trump, Europe, European Union (EU), Hyundai, ICE, Japan, South Korea, Trade, US Imperialism

U.S. cold warriors have failed to prevent Russia, China, Iran, and other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) from obtaining their economic independence. That means keeping the fruits of their economic growth for themselves, rather than letting it be drained off by U.S. banks, investors, consumers, and the U.S. Treasury through the monetary dollar standard. Washington’s cold warriors have been unable to stop SCO members from moving forward and becoming independent from U.S. influence. Recognizing that they are unable to prevent this, U.S. policy is focusing now on how to prevent Europe (especially Germany), Japan, and South Korea from becoming industrial rivals and hence threats — while also targeting China and BRICS.

Iran’s Parliament Vows ‘Decisive’ Payback To Snapback Of Sanctions

September 2, 2025 PressTV. Educate! Britain, Europe, France, Germany, Iran, Sanctions, UNSC

The Iranian legislature raised the alarm in a closed session on Tuesday as the lawmakers reviewed for one and a half hours the repercussions of the anti-Tehran move on the country’s economy and other fields. Germany, France and Britain, the three European signatories — the European troika or E3 — to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), announced last week they would invoke the snapback procedure, a clause that reinstates pre-JCPOA era sanctions on Tehran over claims of the Islamic Republic’s “significant non-compliance” with the landmark pact. The snapback mechanism, defined in UN Security Council Resolution 2231, opens 30 days before the restoration of previously terminated UN Security Council sanctions against Iran.

Europe Just Made War With Iran More Likely

September 1, 2025 Trita Parsi, Responsible Statecraft. Educate! Europe, France, Germany, Iran, United Kingdom (UK), Wars and Militarism

France, Germany, and the UK (E3) have announced they will trigger snapback sanctions on Iran at the United Nations. This will launch a 30-day process that will likely culminate in the full reinstatement of all U.N. sanctions lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. The move will carry four major consequences. First, the U.N. Security Council will formally adopt the demand — pushed by Israel — that Iran cease all uranium enrichment. Israel designed this demand to sabotage nuclear diplomacy and edge the conflict toward war. Next, a U.N. arms embargo on Iran will return, potentially curbing Tehran’s ability to rebuild deterrence against future Israeli or American strikes, provided Russia and China treat the snapback as legitimate and enforce it.

Iran Confronts Europe’s Trigger Mechanism With Eurasian Allies

July 27, 2025 Vali Kaleji, The Cradle. Educate! China, Diplomacy, Europe, European Union (EU), Iran, Nuclear Agreement, Russia

On 22 July, Tehran hosted a high-level trilateral summit with senior officials from Russia and China to coordinate nuclear and sanctions strategies ahead of Iran’s scheduled negotiations with the European Troika in Istanbul today. All three delegations reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining close coordination on the nuclear file and pledged to expand consultations aimed at countering western policies, particularly US-led sanctions. The trilateral meeting followed a sharp escalation in nuclear tensions. Just last month, the US and Israel launched coordinated airstrikes on Iranian nuclear infrastructure, prompting Tehran to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

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