From Royal Cancer Conspiracies to ‘Nut Zero’: 5 Wild Moments From Reform Party Conference
Simon Childs
Not the Nigel Farage Show.
Tag: populism
Zack Polanski’s Win Is the Kick up the Arse the Left Needs
James Meadway
It’s go time.
Zack Polanski Has Started a Fight in the Green Party, and That’s a Good Thing
Adam Ramsay
No more Mr Nice Guy.
US Politics Has Reached a Dead End
Luke Savage
It’s coconut trees v Maga hats.
Microdose: Reactionary Democracy
How do politicians and pundits end up normalising the far-right? Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon explain in a Microdose interview.
Berlusconi Didn’t Pave the Way for Italian Fascism – Liberal Technocrats Did
Matteo Tiratelli
Bunga to bunga, dust to dust.
Try As He Might, Erdoğan Can’t Crush the Left
Eda Seyhan
The struggle continues.
Italy’s Far Right Is About to Win Big As Unelected Government Falls
Matteo Tiratelli
Meanwhile, the left is MIA.
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.
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. The final part of the series How We Win.
The Tories’ Levelling Up Agenda is Just Thatcherism for Towns
Joe Duffy
A leading Tory thinktank is advocating for a regional extension of Thatcherite policies, which would have potentially worrying consequences for the north and the left.
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.
The 2020 Budget Shows the Tories Are Playing by New Rules
Aaron Bastani
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.
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.
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”.
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
