PRMI spoke to Derya, a member of the Sosyalist Emekçiler Partisi – SEP about the massive wave of protest that followed the arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu. 12 April 2025 PRMI: Can you outline what the current situation is? Derya: On March 19, after Erdoğan detained and imprisoned his most powerful rival, […]
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By Walter Chambers, 27 March 2025 The massive protests that have already lasted six days in Istanbul, the city that sits on the edge of Europe are a vivid reminder of the volatility of this whole region. Yet the mainstream and even left media pay scant attention to what is happening. Already this year barely
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By Charlie Jean McKeown, Socialist Party Ireland 27 March 2025 Serbia has been captured by anti-corruption protests for four months, which are student-led, and have now gained an untameable momentum. On 1 November last year, the newly “renovated” concrete canopy of Novi Sad train station collapsed, killing 15 and severely injuring two more. The open
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The political contours of the “Zeitenwende” – the “turning point – the geopolitical shift that is bringing down the once-successful model of German capitalism have been sharpened with the elections of 23 February. By Christian, Leuven 24 February 2025 With 16.4%, the social-democratic SPD achieved its worst result since 1890, when Friedrich Engels was still
German election: Instability and polarization strengthened Read More »
By Walter Chambers, 24 February 2025 So shocking was the speech delivered by US Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference that the Chair burst into tears during his closing speech. Barely a day has gone by since Trump’s inauguration in which a horrific new twist has not been added to the US’s
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By Paul Smith, 14 February 2025 Trump’s threats accelerate Greenland’s push for independence, amid growing dangers of imperialist exploitation and conflict, as the Arctic becomes a new battleground in the global struggle for power, natural resources and strategic dominance. In 2019, Donald Trump’s proposal to purchase Greenland, reducing the future of the country to a
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PRMI reporters spoke to Cerys Keane, Organiser of the “Save nursing” campaign. 14 February 2025 When Britain’s National Health Service is facing a severe crisis, in part due to the lack of qualified staff, the decision by the management of Cardiff University to consider closing the Nurse training course, along with several other important programmes
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By Kate Quinlan, BIMM graduate, class of 2024, 14 February 2025 The proposed mass redundancies at BIMM Dublin, one of Ireland’s most prestigious music colleges, represent not just an attack on workers’ rights but the potential for a grave cultural loss. Lecturers at the institution, many of whom are accomplished musicians who have contributed to
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By Drew Frayne (Socialist Party – Ireland) 31 January 2025 Bucking the international trend of far right electoral gains, the Irish electorate by and large rejected the far right’s programme of anti-immigration, anti-LGBTQ, ultra conservative policies. The surge in anti-immigration protests in the preceding year, the momentum built in the local elections in June and
The electoral failure, and ongoing threat, of the Irish far right Read More »
By Vlad in Tbilisi. 19 December 2024 A new wave of protests has been ongoing in Georgia since October and shows no sign of subsiding. They follow this spring’s demonstrations against the “Russian law”, and the widespread disgust in September with the passing of a stringent law against LGBTQ+ rights, followed the day after by
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By Donal Devlin 10 December 2024 “The choice of the Irish people is clear: they want more of the same”. This was the immediate and typically superficial reaction from Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy about the outcome of the general election in Ireland. Much of the establishment media followed suit. Similarly, Fianna Fáil (FF) and Fine
By Walter Chambers 5 December 2024 The suffering caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent conflict has been pushed out of the global headlines by the horrific genocide in Gaza, but it is no less horrific. The number of dead and wounded, both military and civilian, now far exceeds
A thousand days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, can the war end? Read More »
