The fundamental first question is if we can still speak of a political left and right. And a definitive affirmation is underlying the main argument of the following. The reason for raising this issue is not the general ‘totalitarianism doctrine’ but its specific resurgence based on the view of both, left and right, being populist-authoritarian – as such, More Continue reading Peter Herrmann: Moving forward against the fallback
Four theses for the discussion
- “Right populism” is a misleading term because it confuses “populism” as a communication technique aiming at influencing, activating and organising individuals and collective agents in contemporary societies with the notion of an extreme right wing policy. Trump and May and Orban and Co. should also be analysed in this double perspective.
Political Economy of Right Wing Populismus November 8/9th 2017
Political economy of „right wing populism“ – working on strategies for to dealing with it
While the political and scholarly mainstream, when referring to Brexit and to Trump and Orban and Co., is discussing about a possible “end of globalisation” or about an “anti-modern backlash against globalisation”, a new kind of blackmail is brought to bear upon working people, upon poor people, upon people in precarious living conditions, as well as upon the political left wing and upon the ecologists (again, especially upon the ecological left wing).
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Videos from the Workshop on October 19th-20th
Please see:
Jan Toporowski «On the Brexit issue – politico-economic implications»;
Marica Frangakis: «The multiple meanings of EU exit and their implications for the future of the EU»
John Grahl, John Weeks: European Union and Trade Unions: Costs, Benefits and Policy
This report concludes that continued membership in the European Union is in the interest of British working people and their trade unions.
We reach this conclusion despite the substantial flaws in the EU More
Marica Frangakis: The Multiple Meanings of EU Exit and Their Implications for the Future of Europe
A significant change has taken place in the EU state of affairs in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, which morphed into a debt crisis in the Eurozone. What was thus far unthinkable became a possibility. The exit of a member state from the Union came to be contemplated, speculated and acted upon. More
The slides:
Yanis Varoufakis on Brexit on the Diem25 Conference in London*
Before the referendum DiEM25, our Democracy in Europe Movement, and Another Europe Is Possible, joined forces to argue the ‘IN the EU and AGAINST this EU’ line. More
Europe: What is Left? Working on Strategies
Please find our reader as an offer to the discussion
Jan Toporowski: Heads we Lose, Tails They Win: A Short Guide to Leaving the European Union *
According to the old music-hall song, ‘everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die’. Much the same is true of the British government that has now found itself accidentally (because it happened without any of the usual policy-making preliminaries that are supposed More
Samir Amin: Brexit and the EU Implosion*
The defence of national sovereignty, like its critique, leads to serious misunderstandings once one detaches it from the social class content of the the strategy in which it is embedded. More
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