Europe

European Court Of Justice Rules Against Mass Surveillance

December 23, 2016 Staff, www.dw.com Resist! Courts, Europe, Mass Surveillance

By Staff of DW - The ECJ has ruled that governments cannot force telecom firms to keep all customer data. The ruling, which says the laws violate basic privacy rights, comes as governments call for greater powers for spy agencies. The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled on Wednesday that laws allowing for the blanket collection and retention of location and traffic data are in breach of EU law. In their decision, the justices wrote that storing such data, which includes text message senders and recipients and call histories, allows for "very precise conclusions to be drawn concerning the private lives of the persons whose data has been retained."

Struggle Against Racism And ‘Fortress-Europe’

December 10, 2016 Panagiotis Sotiris, www.spectrezine.org Create! Europe, Racism, Sovereignty

By Panagiotis Sotiris for Spectrezine - The refugee crisis has demonstrated the deep crisis of the European Union. For the past years not only it has not been able to deal with the arrival of a large number of refugees and migrants, but has resorted to the deadly, murderous policies of “Fortress Europe”. The result has been thousands of dead refugees and migrants in the waters of the Mediterranean. Some people say “there are too many refugees in the world”. Is this true? Well, numbers don’t add up. In 2015 the total number of migrants was 232 million, in a global population of 7.4 billion. Regarding refugees in particular, the numbers are indeed increasing.

Young French Immigrants Begin Solidarity Chain To Feed Refugees

October 12, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Create! Europe, France, Refugees

By Staff for Tele Sur - “We also are children of immigrants, we grew up in poverty, the principle of sharing is part of who we are,” said Souleymane. A video inviting young residents of Paris' immigrant suburbs to give free meals to homeless refugees went viral on Facebook, reaching over 50,000 views by Monday. “We also are children of immigrants, we grew up in poverty, the principle of sharing is part of who we are,” said Souleymane, a resident of the Sarcelles suburb where the project began.

Europe’s Top Human Rights Court Considers Legality Of Actions By Edward Snowden

October 4, 2016 Ryan Gallagher, www.theintercept.com Educate! Courts, Edward Snowden, Europe, Whistleblowers

By Ryan Gallagher for The Intercept - HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS have launched a major new legal challenge over mass surveillance programs revealed by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ten organizations — including Privacy International, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amnesty International — are taking up the landmark case against the U.K. government in the European Court of Human Rights (pictured above).

Jeremy Corbyn Wins Convincing Victory Over Owen Smith

September 24, 2016 Heather Stewart and Rowena Mason, www.theguardian.com Create! Europe, Labor, Politics

By Heather Stewart and Rowena Mason for The Guardian - Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to “wipe the slate clean” after winning a convincing victory in Labour’s bitter leadership battle, securing 62% of the vote. Speaking after the result was declared in Liverpool, Corbyn thanked his rival, Owen Smith, and urged the “Labour family” to unite after the summer-long contest. “We have much more in common than that which divides us. Let’s wipe that slate clean from today and get on with the work we’ve got to do as a party together,” he said.

Europe’s Left After Brexit

September 17, 2016 Yanis Varoufakis, www.yanisvaroufakis.eu Strategize! Brexit, Democracy, Europe, Left

By Yanis Varoufakis for Yanis Varoufakis - In the space of thirteen months two referenda shook up not only the European Union but also Europe’s Left: the Greek OXI in July 2015 and Brexit in June 2016. Exasperated by the EU’s mixture of authoritarianism and economic failure, a segment of Europe’s Left is now calling for a “break with the EU”,[2] a stance that has come to be associated with the term Lexit.[3] DiEM25, the transnational Democracy in Europe Movement, rejects the Lexit logic and offers an alternative Progressive Agenda for Europe.

The New European Fascists

July 26, 2016 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Europe, Fascism

By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - WARSAW, Poland—Jaroslaw Kurski and Piotr Stasinski embody the hope that once was Poland. They struggled against the Communist regime for years in the underground press and as Solidarity members. They built Gazeta Wyborcza, now one of the most influential newspapers in the country, after the 1989 fall of communism. They helped usher in a period of democracy and open debate, one that included cultural space for historians such as Jan Gross, a Polish-born American who courageously confronted the taboo topic of Polish complicity in the Nazi extermination of nearly all of Poland’s 3 million Jews.

US-NATO Border Confrontation With Russia Risks Nuclear War

July 18, 2016 Jessica Desvarieux, www.therealnews.com Educate! Europe, NATO, Russia

By Jessica Desvarieux for The Real News Network - Welcome to the Real News Network. I'm Jessica Desvarieux in Washington. President Obama met with NATO leaders in Warsaw last weekend to what seemed like a restatement of vows to protect Europe. Let's take a listen to what the president had to say. So ready that the president will be sending 1,000 troops to Poland as one of four battalions that are being sent to countries bordering Russia. But what is really at the heart of this matter? Are these just tactics by the U.S. leading to an escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Russia?

Slavery As Free Trade

July 3, 2016 Blake Smith, www.aeon.co Educate! Europe, Finance and the Economy, Free Trade, Slavery

By Blake Smith for Aeon. For nearly four centuries, the Atlantic slave trade brought millions of people into bondage. Scholars estimate that around 1.5 million people perished in the brutal middle passage across the Atlantic. The slave trade linked Africa, Europe and the Americas in a horrific enterprise of death and torture and profit. Yet, in the middle of the 18th century, as the slave trade boomed like never before, some notable European observers saw it as a model of free enterprise and indeed of ‘liberty’ itself. They were not slave traders or slave-ship captains but economic thinkers, and very influential ones. They were a pioneering group of economic thinkers committed to the principle oflaissez-faire: a term they themselves coined. United around the French official Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759), they were among the first European intellectuals to argue for limitations on government intervention in the economy. They organised campaigns for the deregulation of domestic and international trade, and they made the slave trade a key piece of evidence in their arguments.

Despite Setback, Podemos Forges Depth And Staying Power

July 1, 2016 Simone Pieranni, www.ilmanifesto.global Create! Europe, Spain

By Simone Pieranni for Il Manifesto - When the meeting ended around 10 p.m. Friday, one of Unidos Podemos’ advisers in Madrid’s City Hall took back the mic and signaled for everyone to remain still: “They tell us that some members of the People’s Party have called the police to come here to denounce us because this may have been an illegal meeting, without permits.” A few people laughed. It was a clumsy attempt to discredit the rally. The man with the microphone shook his head and continued. “In fact, we do have permission, and we answer those ridiculous accusations like we always do: with a smile.” Applause.

America Should Exit From NATO And National Security State

July 1, 2016 Jacob G. Hornberger, www.fff.org Educate! Brexit, Europe, NATO, United States

By Jacob G. Hornberger for FFF - In its reporting on Brexit, the New York Times asks an interesting question: “Is the post-1945 order imposed on the world by the United States and its allies unraveling, too?” Hopefully, it will mean the unraveling of two of the most powerful and destructive governmental apparatuses that came out of the postwar era: NATO and the U.S. national-security state. In fact, although the mainstream media and the political establishment elites will never acknowledge it, the irony is that it is these two apparatuses that ultimately led to the Brexit vote:

After “Brexit”: A Social-Democratic Re-Founding Of Europe?

July 1, 2016 Sigmar Gabriel, Martin Schulz and Ingar Solty, www.socialistproject.ca Create! Brexit, Europe, Progressivism

By Sigmar Gabriel, Martin Schulz and Ingar Solty - In light of “Brexit” and within 24 hours after the publication of the final results in the British referendum on EU membership, Sigmar Gabriel, Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) chairman, German vice-chancellor and Minister of Economic Affairs in the Merkel government, and Martin Schulz, EU Parliament President, published a new strategy paper analyzing the origins of the deep legitimacy crisis of the European Union amid the Europe-wide rise of the nationalist Right and outlining political pathways to overcome this legitimacy crisis in order to prevent the EU's disintegration.[1]

Brexit Confirms: The Center Cannot Hold

July 1, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Brexit, Europe, United Kingdom (UK)

By Staff of Tele Sur - Britain is in a general state of pandemonium. The U.K. finds itself in the midst of a full-blown constitutional crisis, Prime Minister David Cameron has resigned, and both the country's governing party and the opposition are in the throngs of a fierce internal power struggle. As the cheerleaders of the leave campaign dither with no clear plan on how to move forward, the financial consequences continue to ripple through the City

Freedom Rider: The Good News Of Brexit

July 1, 2016 Margaret Kimberley, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Brexit, Europe, NATO, United Kingdom (UK), United States

By Margaret Kimberley for Black Agenda Report - In calling for the vote on BREXIT, the British guardians of the financial powers-that-be have shot themselves in all four feet. Trillions have been lost in money markets, “the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is on hold for now, and NATO provocations against Russia will take a back seat.” The U.S. is losing its Trojan Horse in Europe. “Let the sun finally set on the British Empire.”

Europe Must Reform To Avoid A Populist Domino Effect

June 30, 2016 Sven Giegold, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Brexit, Europe, European Union (EU), Populism

By Sven Giegold for The Huffington Post - Brexit is an historic setback for the European Union, but not a death sentence. As sad as the referendum result is, it must be respected. After referenda over the European Union’s constitution were held in France and the Netherlands in 2005, it was “business as usual.” That mistake must not be repeated. Europe has to prove that it is capable of learning and changing. Reforms can’t be made by heads of government behind closed doors — they should be transparent.

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