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June 25, 2014
What can the British left learn from Podemos?
In the Spanish left we had been saying for a long time that Podemos was going to be the surprise of the European elections. And, finally, on Sunday 25 May it became true. In only five months, Podemos managed to achieve 1,245,948 votes, 5 seats in the parliament and immense popular support. This is the […]
Posted in: Social Movements
EDL outnumbered in Colchester. But, did we win the argument?
June 3, 2014
by George Venizelos
On Thursday 22nd May the English Defence League (EDL) returned to the streets of Colchester to lay a wreath in memory of dead soldier Lee Rigby. Around 100 antifascists, members of the local community and university students, were gathered next to the War Memorial to oppose less than 30 EDL members. Antifascists arrived first, hoping […]
Posted in: Anti-fascism, Social Movements
Where Is the Ukrainian Left?
May 30, 2014
by mzherebkin
The current crisis in Ukraine has indicated a weakness on behalf of any organised left-wing group or a think tank to offer a feasible alternative to the dominance of the radical nationalists in the West of the country, as well as the pro-Russian nationalists in the Eastern part. As Slavoj Žižek writes in his article […]
Posted in: Miscellaneous, Social Movements
Thoughts on EU elections in the UK
May 27, 2014
by Nathan J. Bolton
So what happened? The results of the European Parliament elections were bad. We can manipulate data to show that UKIP share of the national vote fell in the local elections or laugh at the obliteration of the Lib Dems but the headline is clear – UKIP won the election and have set the terms of […]
Posted in: Economic and Financial Crisis, Social Movements
Ernesto Laclau (1935 – 2014)
April 23, 2014
by adriaportac
Ernesto Laclau was born in Argentina in 1935, studying history and graduating from the National University of Buenos Aires in 1964. He was active in the student movement of the time and was a leading member of Abelardo Ramos’s Socialist Party of the National Left (PSIN). “I was never dogmatic,” he later recalled. “I always […]
Posted in: Obituaries
Psychogeography – Introducing the Inner Space of the Outer Existence
April 15, 2014
by internationalcritique
The Naked City, a psycho-geographical map by Guy Débord Psychogeography is a widely applied concept – through some fault of its own, though for none in itself – whose contemporary use has found articulation in many revolutionary and resistant forms of anti-capitalist critique. As an art-form, praxis and/or way of life, it assumes the […]
Posted in: Theory
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An International Critique 
June 7, 2014
by adriaportac
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