Turkey’s three-dimensional populism, three leaders and three blocs
Today, The New Pretender reprints a last piece on the Turkish campaign before the elections of 24 June. In this article, Omer Tekdemir analyses...
‘We are witnessing the rise of a neo-liberal populism’ – Interview with...
Jorge Moruno is a sociologist of Work, and former head of discourse for the Podemos movement, of which he was a founding member. In...
Book Review: The Populist Radical Left in Europe edited by Giorgios...
In The Populist Radical Left in Europe, editors Giorgios Katsambekis and Alexandros Kioupkiolis bring together contributors to explore populist radical left movements across Europe, discussing examples...
The anti-populist effect of the progressive Left – a real concern...
In this weeks long read, Alice Masoni contributes to the New Pretenders analysis of anti-populism. Masoni writes about anti-populist rhetoric and its capacity to reproduce the...
On Strike Against Reality: Conspiracy Thinking as the Popularisation of Critical...
Conspiracy theories and post-truth politics have figured prominently in the popular consciousness throughout 2020; growing steadily alongside public health responses to the Covid-19 pandemic....
Promise and Populism in Mexico
Today, as Mexico is electing its new president, The New Pretender offers an analysis of the campaign of the left populist candidate Andrés Manual López...
“March for Our Lives” : the post-9/11 generation rises against carrying...
March for Our Lives is the first mass social movement under Donald Trump's tenure as well as the biggest anti-firearms demonstration in the history...
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...
Gilets jaunes: why the French working poor are demanding Emmanuel Macron’s...
This weekend we have the great pleasure to republish the excellent Oliver Davis on the recent “yellow vest” protests in France. Is this only...
Against the War: the People’s peace
Once again in the history of humankind, the world seems on the brisk of disaster. Early in the morning of Saturday 14 April, US,...