EU politics
Luke Stobart: Catalonia’s Independence Struggle Has Deep Roots
Review of A People’s History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude (Pluto Press, 2022). Read the article HERE.
Jacobin
National Politics
Leandros Fischer: Cyprus’ Polarised Elections Highlight a Crisis of Political Legitimacy
Analysis of Cyprus’ election result on Sunday in Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Uncategorized
Matt Karp: We can’t ignore class dealignment
Data shows left-wing politics is increasingly isolated from its traditional base among the working class. Read the article HERE.
Austerity
Stathis Kouvelakis, Costas Lapavistas: Greece’s Left Needs to Unite Behind an Alternative to Syriza
It’s always good to see the Greek left thinking about how to cohere a radical alternative to Syriza. Posted in Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Claudia Horn: Europe Needs to Radicalise Its Climate Policies in Response to the Energy Crisis
The EU is watering down its tepid ecological reforms as energy prices soar. Read the article HERE.
Corruption
Branko Marcetic: A Missile Strike in Poland Shows Why Government Agencies Can’t Be the Sole Arbiters of Truth
After a Ukrainian missile mishap in Poland, misinformation blaming Russia quickly spread. The lie came from precisely the “authoritative sources” now being treated as the arbiters of truth by social media platforms. Read the article […]
Uncategorized
Matt Huber: ‘Green capitalism’ is a lie
Review of Adrienne Buller’s ‘The value of a whale: on the illusions of green capitalism’. Read the article HERE.
Energy
Harrison Stetler: Emmanuel Macron’s Government Is Ordering Striking Oil Workers Back to Work
France’s oil refineries’ strikes is developing into a major national crisis. Read the article HERE
EU politics
Guido Liguori: In Italy, a Once-Mighty Left Is Struggling to Make Its Mark
The left is almost irrelevant to the 25 September election in Italy – what went wrong? Read the article HERE
Austerity
Jacobin: Emmanuel Macron Is Not Your Friend
“We can think of Macron as an updated, French version of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, with a dollop of the newer generation of triangulators.” An interesting analysis of Macron: past, present, and future. Read […]