[Turkey] How the Populist Centre-Left is Challenging Erdoğan
Snap presidential elections will take place in Turkey on 24 June 2018. Although the plan of the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was to crush his...
Catherine Rottenberg: How Neoliberalism Colonised Feminism – and what you can...
In this short article, Catherine Rottenberg argues that feminism as a political identity and project, has increasingly become part of the discourse of neoliberalism....
Community organising and left-wing populism
Recently put under the spotlight in France by Melenchon supporters, Saul Alinsky's "community organizing" intends to politicize the everyday life of working classes by...
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...
“A Hostile Environment” – Immigration in Contemporary Britain
This weekend The New Pretender brings you a republication of this short article, on the Windrush Scandal, Race and the Criminalisation of Immigration in Contemporary Britain,...
Eurozone reform: dominion by technocracy?
After the formation of the grand coalition government in Germany and Macron’s pro-integration push, the discussion on reforming the Eurozone’s architecture has moved to...
Chantal Mouffe: “Corbyn represents the implementation of a left populist strategy”
In this article, Chantal Mouffe, philosopher, professor at the University of Westminster and theoretician of left-wing populism, proffers an analysis of the strategy of...
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,...
“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...
Messiah Musk
‘Elon Musk is my God’, ‘My favourite human being’, ‘This guy is the future!’, ‘Find a way to make him immortal!’. Exclamations like these...