It’s happening. Right now, across the ocean, citizens of the United Kingdom are running to the polls to answer the big question: Should the UK remain […]
Tag: Europe
The political left is dead, long live the political left!
The Western left is in dire straits today. Supposedly, the Left (at least the political parties on the left side of the political spectrum) is […]
Ideology is dead, long live ideology!
A specter is haunting democracies throughout the world. A barely visible cloud, an entangling nebula is settling in throughout large swaths of modern political rhetoric. Many […]
Another Europe is possible: European Union is not a social union
“The European Union isn’t a social union” said Angela Merkel German chancellor in a lyrical musing this past week. The truth of the matter is […]
The point of junction: European fascism and neo-liberal austerity
In space of a few months the old continent has been rocked by a series of reactionary revolts that have spread like wildfire. Parallel to […]
The rise of La Quenelle
Something smells fishy within the realm of the French republic; La Quenelle, a sort of inverse Nazi salute, which first appeared during the 2009 European […]
The Lampedusa Manifesto
In 1941 at the height of the Second World War on an island in many ways similar to Lampedusa, the island of Ventotene, two leaders […]
Marois Ignorant Of The French Secularist Model
Off all the asinine comments made by Mme Marois in defense of her fatally flawed ‘Québec charte des valeurs’ (daycare workers wearing hijabs are threatening […]
Mixed feelings at Berlin’s gay memorial
Of all the feelings I thought I’d have at a memorial to gay Holocaust victims, shame was the furthest from my mind. Yet it’s exactly what I felt
Austerity in Europe
I’ve said for years that if a country tries to put austerity into practice for an extended period of time, an eventual revolution will be the outcome. In Greece and France this past week that is essentially what happened. I have no doubt there is more to follow. France elected Francois Hollande of the Socialist Party last week…