Social democracy in the global south at a crossroads
Amid geoeconomic disruption and geopolitical competition, the alternatives are stark: democratic socialism or barbarism.
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Amid geoeconomic disruption and geopolitical competition, the alternatives are stark: democratic socialism or barbarism.
A unity cemented by tolerance is needed for social-democratic success in the elections to the European Parliament.
It will take decades of intellectual effort, Paul Mason writes, before a new world order emerges from the cumulative chaos.
A potential conflict of national interests over Ukrainian refugees needs to be anticipated and pre-empted.
Most focus on women’s political participation has emphasised boosting its supply. But demand is the bigger problem.
Climate change and socio-economic trends will make large-scale migrations inevitable in the coming decades.
The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed on either side of the Israel-Hamas war.
Amid escalating deaths, claims and counter-claims, Robert Misik clears the smoke of self-righteous dissembling.
Challenging intolerance does involve a political economy of justice. But it must also provide an affective alternative.
The reignition of the conflict should have surprised no one, had not so many eyes—including in Europe—been averted.
International law places copious constraints on how Israel can order the evacuation of northern Gaza, to protect civilians.
With the progressive bloc likely to replace the populists in power, the relics of the latter and a polarised society will remain challenging.
An enduring refugee crisis, the conflict is unlike any similar episode from World War II and its aftermath.
The European commissioner’s announcement of discontinuation of aid to Palestine, though countermanded, was hugely damaging.
Progressives, Eszter Kováts writes, need to avoid the trap of a politics which only knows friends and foes.
The Christian Democrats must not learn the wrong lessons from two state elections by adopting the rhetoric of the far right.
In 2015 the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 but real change demands a green social contract.
The populist’s party topped the poll once more in the elections in Slovakia. Yet green political shoots emerged too.
The EU should have seen this crisis coming and deployed sanctions against its ‘reliable energy partner’.
In the Ukraine war, mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies in Europe and the United States hint at growing conflict fatigue.
If progressives are to defeat the populists, Jan Zielonka writes, they must offer a vision beyond the nation-state.