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Whatever happened to the Indignados? 1: Radical struggle
LUKE STOBART with the first instalment of a special three-part analysis of the radicalisation that has swept Spain since the 15-M protests of 2011. *** Anti-politics and the 15-M movement On 15 May...
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Whatever happened to the Indignados? 2: Regime crisis
After the weekend’s million and a half strong “March for dignity” in Madrid, once again showing that the wave of radicalisation that has swept Spain since the 15-M protests of 2011 is far from over,...
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WA result: Normal (anti-political) programming resumes
For most of the Left the re-election, on a big swing and record vote, of Greens Senator Scott Ludlam will be the most cheering news from the WA Senate special election. The Greens campaign was carried...
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A federal ICAC? ‘Accountability’ & the decay of politics
NSW Liberals bowled over by ICAC [Graphic: Newcastle Herald]It’s been enjoyable indeed to watch the humiliation of both sides of NSW politics on the ICAC witness stand. But, unlike Peter Hartcher in...
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Occupying Hong Kong
GUEST POST BY KEVIN LIN The past week has seen a dramatic escalation of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, against the Chinese government’s obstruction in Hong Kong’s electoral process. In scenes...
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Naomi Klein, the ‘shock doctrine’ & Whitlam’s dismissal
In the latest post at her personal blog, An Integral State, Left Flank’s ELIZABETH HUMPHRYS challenges Naomi Klein’s celebrated “shock doctrine” thesis of neoliberal transformation by looking at the...
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Understanding Podemos (2/3): Radical populism
La Tuerka: Monedero, Iglesias, Errejón The first part of Left Flank’s series exploring the rise of Podemos looked at the positive incorporation in the project of the “Indignados” (15-M) movement’s...
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‘Abolishing the present state of things’
Paris Commune: the ‘reabsorption of the State power by society’ Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call...
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Why better politics can’t make anti-politics go away
A recent think piece by Spiked!’s theoretical guru, Frank Furedi, is an attack on the idea that anti-politics is any kind of solution to the current breakdown in authority of the political system....
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Viktor Orbán: Unpleasant nationalist? Yes. Anti-democrat? No
I know this is not a popular opinion in progressive circles but the attacks on Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán as “anti-democratic” are overblown rubbish. It has gotten to the point where op-ed writers...
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