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David Broder – Emmanuel Macron Is Refusing to Allow the Left to Govern

August 28, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘Emmanuel Macron has ruled out appointing a government led by the biggest force in parliament, the left-wing New Popular Front. His refusal confirms a case long made by the Left: it’s time to get rid […]

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Henry Wallis – Why the New Popular Front won

July 10, 2024 Ben Wray 0

It’s an exciting moment in France for the left, but if it is not capitalised on then it could easily be a false dawn. Henry Wallis writes on French politics at helotage.com. Cross-posted from Counterpunch On […]

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Harrison Stetler – France’s New Popular Front Has Won a Historic Victory

July 8, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The French election was meant to bring victory for Marine Le Pen’s far right. But the New Popular Front rallied around a left-wing program for social change — allowing it to become the biggest force […]

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Eric Toussaint – The Browning of Europe

July 1, 2024 Ben Wray 0

A long assessment of the European Parliament election results but well worthwhile. Éric Toussaint is a historian and political scientist. He is spokesperson for the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt. Cross-posted from Counterpunch […]

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Katherine Hearst – UK election 2024: How Luton’s independent campaigns are fighting for representation

July 1, 2024 Ben Wray 0

A positive story about how discontent over Gaza is mixing with discontent over declining living standards, motivating people to back left-wing independent candidates. Katherine Hearst is a writer, film maker and organiser. After graduating from […]

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Chris Mills Rodrigo – EU Elections Show Why the Left Can’t Win by Running Rightward

June 23, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The left should focus on an agenda which appeals to the working class. Chris Mills Rodrigo is the managing editor of Inequality.org Cross-posted from Common Dreams The recent European Parliamentary elections went poorly for the […]

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Victor Goury-Laffont – Forget the far right. It’s the left that may squeeze Macron out of power.

June 17, 2024 Ben Wray 0

France’s National Assembly election is undoubtedly one of the most important elections in Europe for many years. In ‘Politico’. Read the article HERE.

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Chris Dite – In Finland, the Left Alliance Just Trounced the Far Right

June 12, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘Europe’s elections saw gains for anti-immigration parties — but the breakthrough act in Finland was the Left Alliance, with 17% support. Its leader, Li Andersson, told Jacobin about why it did so well and how it defeated […]

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Evgenii Dainov – Splintered Reality: On Identity Politics as De-Emancipation

June 4, 2024 Ben Wray 0

A call to reboot the whole agenda of emancipation rooted in that struggle against privilege and for fairness that produced the possibility to be civil to all and enemy to none. Evgenii Dainov is Professor of […]

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Julian-Nicolas Calfuqir – In France, the Far Right Is Beating a Divided Left

June 3, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘Two years ago, a left-wing alliance denied Emmanuel Macron his majority in parliament. But today the forces of the Left are deeply divided — making Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National almost the sole contender for […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 2

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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