Bright Flight
Per Rolandsson discusses why Scandinavian culture has become so popular among the liberal middle-classes. Is it fascism, racism, or escapism?
Escaping the reality of today’s...
Ireland: ‘We have people without homes and homes without people. Mission...
In this short piece Liam Farrell argues that recent acts of naming the Irish Republic, either as a 'Vulture Republic', or as a 'Republic...
Repeal the 8th – Women’s Bodies, Anti-Colonial Struggle and a...
In this weeks special report / long-read article Hasret Cetinkaya writes about the Repeal the 8th campaign in Ireland, seeking to amend the Irish...
Fighting Austerity Building Alternatives: Notes from the Struggles of the Metropolitan...
In this week's article Haris Malamidis and Kostis Roussos write about building alternative networks in periods where 'austerity politics remain untouched and tend to...
Left Populism from the Hungarian Perspective
A great challenge for the left is how to comply with both Marxist (especially Gramscian) and post-structuralist (Laclau-Mouffian) ideas about politics. How can this...
The Decline of Political Judgment: Moralistic Responses to the Populist Moment
In this article Liam Farrell offers a set of critical reflections on the decline of political judgment in contemporary political debates around the emergence of populist politics...
Demonising populism won’t work – Europe needs a progressive populist alternative...
How should Europe react to the rise of populist parties? Chantal Mouffe argues that the consensus established between centre-right and centre-left parties on the...
Peter Bloom | We live in a populist age – but...
This weekend the New Pretender takes great pleasure in republishing the following intervention by Peter Bloom from our partners Brave New Europe. Bloom notes the loose...
Towards the 12th May | Catherine Morris & Jesse Jones
Towards the 12th May
A play spoken by a chorus of voices
for James Connolly (5 June 1868 - 12 May 1916) by Catherine Morris
This piece is...
Turkey: the organic crisis of a post-populist moment | Omer Tekdemir
This week The New Pretender republishes the following article by Omer Tekdemir, and call to discussion and debate from our comrades writing in openDemocracy. Initiated...