Europe has been experiencing a prolonged spell of crises, triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic and exacerbated by the ongoing wars, austerity social policies, and ruthless profiteering by business corporations.
Several countries across Europe are witnessing double-digit inflation rates, energy shortages, widespread social unrest, and deepening inequality. Far-right groups have been exploiting the popular outrage against the policies of neoliberal governments in the region by escalating hate-mongering against refugees and minorities.
Working-class people have been taking to the streets to demand solutions to the crises. Workers are calling for a hike in wages and pensions at par with the soaring inflation, an immediate end to ongoing wars, the abolition of VAT on
