Long Read: US Politics Has Reached a Dead End
Luke Savage
After a brief flirtation with change, writes Luke Savage, America’s presidential race has reverted to type: sclerotic, exhausted and grossly unpopular.
Tag: populism
ACFM: Microdose: Reactionary Democracy
How do politicians and pundits end up normalising the far-right? Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon explain in a Microdose interview.
Obituary: Berlusconi Didn’t Pave the Way for Italian Fascism – Liberal Technocrats Did
Matteo Tiratelli
Far more dangerous than the tangerine tyrant was Italian liberals' response to him, writes Matteo Tiratelli.
Analysis: Try As He Might, Erdoğan Can’t Crush the Left
Eda Seyhan
The Turkish president’s recent re-election for a third term dashed hopes for a new dawn in Turkey, writes Eda Seyhan. But the cracks are showing.
Analysis: Italy’s Far Right Is About to Win Big As Unelected Government Falls
Matteo Tiratelli
We should celebrate the fall of Mario Draghi’s unelected government, writes Matteo Tiratelli. Yet what looks likely to replace it could be even worse.
Novara FM: NO ONE WAY WORKS: Political Organisation for the 21st Century
Rodrigo Nunes joins James Butler to throw light on left melancholia and the future of political organisation.
Analysis: How We Win: The Media
James Schneider
To win the 2020s, we must tell our story. At every opportunity, socialists must make clear, emotional and positive arguments to build support for our solutions, cut through government spin and disarm the culture wars.
Opinion: The Tories’ Levelling Up Agenda is Just Thatcherism for Towns
Joe Duffy
A new report by a rightwing thinktank on "unleashing investment" in the north of England provides a grim insight into how the government may convert its Brexit majority into an even more sinister political settlement under the guise of concern for regional equality, writes Joe Duffy.
Novara FM: Left Populism, Coronavirus and Crisis
James Butler is joined by Paolo Gerbaudo to discuss left populism, Italian politics, and the nature of the crisis over the pandemic in Italy, Europe and beyond.
Opinion: The 2020 Budget Shows the Tories Are Playing by New Rules
Aaron Bastani
Did Rishi Sunak just end austerity? No. Is Britain adequately preparing for the panoply of crises set to define the coming decades? Also no. But make no mistake, writes Aaron Bastani, this was the first Tory budget since 2010 to abandon the neoliberal frame of ‘necessity', demonstrating how Labour under Corbyn won certain arguments.
Novara Live: Amazon in Flames
As the Amazon burns, its time to join the dots between right-wing populism and the climate crisis. With Oscar Guardiola Rivera, Professor in law at Birkbeck and author of “What if Latin America Ruled the World?” and Daniel Willis, from Global Justice Now.
Novara FM: Log On! the Rise of the Digital Party
On #NovaraFM James Butler is joined by Paolo Gerbaudo to discuss his new book ‘The Digital Party’: from hyperleaders to superbases, the end of the cadre and the effect of the internet on how people think about politics.
Novara Live: The Trump-Corbyn Era? With Paul Lewis and Aaron Bastani
Is populism just a term used by centrists to deligitimise their opposition? Do Corbyn and Sanders have anything in common with Trump and Viktor Orban? Tonight on #tyksysour The Guardian’s Paul Lewis and Aaron Bastani debate the uses and abuses of “populism”.
Novara FM: For a Left Populism: Chantal Mouffe
On #NovaraFM James Butler is joined by leading theorist of populism Chantal Mouffe. They discuss populism left and right, sovereignty, the nation-state – and the durability of classical socialism
The New Obsession With Populism Shows Centrist Politics Is Dead
Aaron Bastani
This week the Guardian began an 'investigation' into the rise of what it terms the 'new populism'. But by misunderstanding and dismissing populism, placing the far right and socialist left alongside one another, the centrist intelligentsia have shown they've completely lost their way, argues Aaron Bastani.
Elections in Pakistan: A Populist Moment?
Ayyaz Mallick
With Imran Khan now confirmed as Pakistan's next Prime Minister, what could the future of Pakistan's political landscape look like?
Long Read: Eduardo Chibás: The Life and Times of a Populist
Felix Holtwell
Eduardo Chibás rose to prominence on a populist platform - but the movement he headed collapsed rapidly after his death. What can we learn from the extraordinary life of this cuban politician?
Mélenchon: Left Wing Populism à La Française?
Laurence Dorman
Until just weeks ago, the French presidential election looked set to be a runoff between far right candidate Marine Le Pen and the centrist Emmanuel Macron. But with his movement snowballing in the opinion polls, left wing challenger Jean-Luc Mélenchon stands in striking distance of the second round.