Europe
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The ongoing battle for French pensions
Once again the French state is trying to cut pension entitlements. As millions take to the streets, Sylvestre Jaffard reports on this renewed battle across the nation
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A new Italian era: the inevitable rise of Georgia Meloni
Can the newly elected postfascist Italian leader Giorgia Meloni last, asks Andrea Pisauro
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Ten years after ‘the squares’
Giorgos Venizelos interviews Cristina Flesher Fominaya on participation, institutionalisation and the right-wing backlash to the squares movements of 2011-12
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How the West scuppered Gorbachev’s reforms
Drawing on his observations of Gorbachev, Jonathan Steele details how Western interests and Yeltsin’s ambition undermined his strategy for gradual reform
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A real ‘culture war’ rages in Ukraine
Russia targeting Ukrainian museums follows a long history of imperial powers looting and despoiling cultural wealth, argues Siobhan McGuirk
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Zvenigora: Looking back at a Ukrainian cinema marvel
The current war in Ukraine gives a new significance to the work of the Soviet-era Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, writes Juliet Jacques
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Key words: CANZUK
Owen Hatherley uncovers the imperial nostalgia fuelling proposals for a new geopolitical union
