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A letter from Athens
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*)
Greece remains one of the most important places on earth. Not because of the country per se, but because it is...
Germany rings the bell
The results of the German regional elections represent a serious setback for Angela Merkel, but also a defeat for the German Left. The rightist Alternative for Germany...
Portugal’s Political Impasse
By Charles-André Udry
The election of conservative candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa as Portugal's new president on January 24 (with 51.99 per cent of the vote and a...
Building Alternative Institutions in Greece: an Interview with Christos Giovanopoulos
by Alexander Kolokotronis
Since the beginning of the Greek financial crisis, both the Right and the Left have advanced a narrow set of narratives, policy...
Making money, not things
by Renaud Lambert
From the 1950s, the Argentinian economist Raúl Prebisch (1901-86) analysed the risks of Latin America’s dependence on the vagaries of foreign economies:...
History Doesn’t Go In a Straight Line
by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky on Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and the potential for ordinary people to make radical change.
Throughout his illustrious career, one of...
The NO Front
How to build a Front of Resistance (some remarks on moral and national aspects of politics, on left and right, on left and nationalism,...
European ‘alliance of national liberation fronts’ emerges to avenge Greek defeat
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
It has come to this. The first finance minister of a eurozone country to draw up contingency plans for a possible euro...
The Left and the euro: liquidate, rebuild
If the past few weeks are to be anything other than another reason to be depressed, they might at least serve as the starting...