EU politics
Francesca De Benedetti – Europe’s Left Needs a Wake-up Call
Left-wing parties in Europe, with few exceptions, remain completely marginal, while the far-right’s rise continues. In ‘Jacobin’. Read the article HERE.
Left-wing
EU politics
Ben Wray – The raging bull of Spanish nationalism has been restrained, for now
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 […]
Inequality
Branko Milanović: Marx’s vision of inequality
Has the left given up on usurping capitalism? In ‘Unherd’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
C.J. Polychroniou: Endgame for Syriza? The Unbearable Lightness of the Greek Left
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 […]
EU politics
David Jamieson – Ukraine viewed from Mount Olympus
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. […]
Solutions
Cédric Durand – Living Together
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.
Solutions
Vijay Prashad, Taroa Zúñiga Silva – ‘Chile Needs a Communist Party,’ an Interview With Lautaro Carmona
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. […]
EU politics
Brais Fernández: The Spanish Impasse
A critique of ‘state progressivism’ in Spain. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Neil Warner: The Idea of “Social Europe” Became an Alibi for the European Union’s Neoliberal Turn
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 […]
EU politics
Loren Balhorn: The Split in Die Linke Reflects a Rudderless German Left
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.