Palestine on a Precipice
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Toufic Haddad The rise and expansion of right-wing populism and the dramatic unfolding of global politics in the Trump era have had significant and alarming implications for the…
Aziz Al-Azmeh in conversation Part 1: political Islams, modernities and conservative-populist ideologies
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
This is the first part of a three-part conversation carried out with the Syrian academic Aziz Al-Azmeh. Here Aziz Al-Azmeh addresses the relation of contemporary political islams and…
ASSA 2018 – part one: globalisation, inequality and populism
Monday, January 15, 2018
Posted on Michael Roberts’ blog on January, 7 2018. ASSA 2018 is the annual conference of the American Economic Association, drawing together the economics profession in the US…
Trump , Populism , Fascism , and the Road Ahead
Monday, December 11, 2017
Harry van der Linden Butler University, hvanderl@butler.edu. Interesting article published in: Radical Philosophy Review,Volume 20, Number 2, 2017: 355-365 During his election campaign, Trump promoted violence and appealed…
No easy answers: why left-wing economics is not the answer to right-wing populism
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Zack Beauchamp, Vox. On November 20, less than two weeks after Donald Trump’s upset win, Bernie Sanders strode onto a stage at Boston’s Berklee Performance Center to give…
Le Populisme de gauche, un oxymore dangereux
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Pierre Khalfa , Ensemble! Ce texte a été écrit en vue d’un débat sur la question du populisme qui a été introduit à partir des interventions et des…
Hezbollah and the Workers
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Joseph Daher, Jacobin. Though its reputation has waned in recent years, Hezbollah has long earned plaudits from the Left for its military resistance to Israel. Many, too, have…
The death of neoliberalism and the crisis in western politics
Friday, November 11, 2016
Martin Jacques, The Guardian. The western financial crisis of 2007-8 was the worst since 1931, yet its immediate repercussions were surprisingly modest. The crisis challenged the foundation stones…