American money and American moral and political support has been really important in creating this backlash in Europe against feminism, LGBT rights and basic equality. The reason we started looking at this was it didn't add up how much these groups were able to organize, and the size of these organizations, based on the size of the bases they could reach when they started. A lot of these groups seemed to suddenly spring up. That a lot of their funding is coming from the US explains that.
Journalist Adam Ramsay traces money fueling Europe's far right back to Christian fundamentalists in the US - as a way to create new political spaces within Europe for the far right to advance against gay and trans rights, immigration and abortion, and as cover for a global reactionary movement in service of oligarchs on both sides of the Atlantic.
openDemocracy released the report Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian âfundamentalistsâ pour millions of âdark moneyâ into Europe, boosting the far right.
Workers around the world can play a role in mobilizing action against the apartheid Israeli state.
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This weekâs featured author is J. Brent Crosson. Crosson is Associate Professor of Religious Studies andâŚ
âYou belong to us, body and belongings, and we can dispose of them and do with you as we please.â Holy Roman Emperor Louis VI in 1343.
When oppressed people get organized, the US gets angry. It's been punishing the people of Cuba since 1962.
We remember Patrice Lumumba. We will not forget the Congo.
