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Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux – The German left has lost its monopoly on class consciousness

February 17, 2025 Ben 0

Class identity still matters in politics, the problem is that the left has forgotten how to activate it. Linus Westheuser is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Humboldt University Berlin. Thomas Lux is a Postdoctoral Researcher at […]

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Veronica Gennari – Banlieues Climat: Fighting Eco-Fascism with Popular Ecology  

October 28, 2024 Ben 0

Putting social class and climate action together in Paris’ impoverished suburbs. Veronica Gennari is an Italian freelance journalist based in Paris. Cross-posted from Green European Journal On the morning of 12 October, a crowd gathered […]

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Jacques R. Pauwels – Paris: A radical history

September 4, 2024 Ben 0

The Paris Olympics was a celebration of the bourgeoisie’s victory in the city, overcoming the revolts of the masses, at least for now. Jacques R. Pauwels is the author of The Great Class War: 1914-1918 and Myths of Modern […]

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D. W. Livingstone – The Effect of Class Consciousness on Political Preferences

July 3, 2024 Ben 0

Political preferences are often discussed through a one-size-fits-all middle-class lens. But empirical data shows that class significantly influences voting patterns, with growing class consciousness driving dissatisfaction with established parties. In Jacobin. Read the full article […]

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Kjell Östberg – Sweden’s Welfare State Was a Product of Class Struggle

April 22, 2024 Ben 0

‘Swedish Social Democracy is often idealized as a benign reformist force that delivered welfare to the grateful masses. Yet the Swedish social model was the product of conflict — and a working-class radicalism that the […]

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Branko Milanović – The red bourgeoisie

September 25, 2023 Ben 0

The Soviet ruling classes are insufficiently studied and known. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest  book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World”. His […]

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Marco D’Eramo: Darning the Planet

August 9, 2023 Ben 0

On the climate crisis and the political class. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Mark Steven: The Global Class War in Five Novels

June 5, 2023 Ben 0

Contemporary literature on class struggle is territorially grounded but internationally expansive. Mark Steven is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. He is author of ‘Class War: A […]

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Matt Karp: We can’t ignore class dealignment

February 6, 2023 Ben 0

Data shows left-wing politics is increasingly isolated from its traditional base among the working class. Read the article HERE.

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

June 11, 2026 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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