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Ben Wray – The raging bull of Spanish nationalism has been restrained, for now

November 16, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Pedro Sánchez has cobbled together another coalition to stay in power, but he has had to commit to an amnesty for the leaders of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum to achieve it, a move which […]

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Branko Milanović: Marx’s vision of inequality

October 18, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Has the left given up on usurping capitalism? In ‘Unherd’. Read the article HERE.

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C.J. Polychroniou: Endgame for Syriza? The Unbearable Lightness of the Greek Left

September 27, 2023 Ben Wray 0

With the election of a Goldman Sachs centrist as leader, Syriza has ceased to have any affinity to leftist politics in any shape or form. C.J. Polychroniou is a political economist/political scientist who has taught […]

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David Jamieson – Ukraine viewed from Mount Olympus

September 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The politics of internationalism from above does not serve workers anywhere, it only builds bridges between them and their exploiters. David Jamieson is a journalist and editor of Scottish anti-capitalist website Conter. Cross-posted from Conter. […]

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Cédric Durand – Living Together

September 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Durand attempts to find a middle ground for eco-socialism between eco-modernist and degrowth perspectives on the left. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Vijay Prashad, Taroa Zúñiga Silva – ‘Chile Needs a Communist Party,’ an Interview With Lautaro Carmona

September 11, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Chile’s Communist Party, which is part of Boric’s government, is under vociferous attack from the right-wing press because it is increasingly popular. Taroa Zúñiga Silva is a writing fellow and the Spanish media coordinator for Globetrotter. […]

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Brais Fernández: The Spanish Impasse

September 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A critique of ‘state progressivism’ in Spain. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Neil Warner: The Idea of “Social Europe” Became an Alibi for the European Union’s Neoliberal Turn

August 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

European left parties responded to the crisis of social democracy by proposing more radical reforms to be carried out at a transnational level. But the call for “social Europe” ended up serving as a thin […]

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Loren Balhorn: The Split in Die Linke Reflects a Rudderless German Left

August 7, 2023 Ben Wray 0

An analysis of why Germany’s Left party is failing and what the left needs to do to build support among the working class. In ‘Jacobin’. Read the article HERE.

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Ben Wray – Spain’s left government has done better than most, but it’s still nowhere near enough

July 17, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Faced with the vicissitudes of neoliberal globalisation, the right-wing’s reactionary narrative may prove to be more potent with voters than the left-wing’s record of modest social justice. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist and co-ordinator […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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

July 2, 2025 0

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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