What is Trumpism? Part 4: the White Working Class
Introduction In the previous post What is Trumpism? Part 3: Race, class and nation, I started to identify what constituted the social base of Trumpism. In that post, I showed …
What is Trumpism? Part 3: Race, class and nation
We knew he was a bore and boor. Now we have learned that Donald Trump is an honorary Boer. When he turned his attention to South Africa on Wednesday, it may come as no …
What is Trumpism? Part 2 The Old, the New Working Class and National Identity
What is Trumpism? Part 2- The Old, the New Working Class and National Identity In my previous post What is Trumpism? Part 1- The Root of the Problem, I developed the idea …
What is Trumpism? Part 1- The Root of the Problem
a Introduction Like everyone else I know, I have been shocked by the first few days of the Trump presidency. The man seems to be worse than my worst expectations. …
The rise of the far-right in Germany and the Ukraine war
Introduction I am part of a WhatsApp group of Portuguese tracking the electoral rise of the far right and trying to understand the reasons for it. It started as a …
Reflections on the recent presidential elections in Peru
In my recent blog posts I have been arguing that under a conception of democracy which equates the term exclusively with that of parliamentary representative democracy, change is limited to …
Reflections on the Recent Presidential Elections in Portugal and the Rise of the Far Right.
On Sunday 24th January last, Portugal held presidential elections. This was an event largely ignored by the British press. The Guardian reported the outcome online here. The elections were largely …
Antisemitism and Populism
The respected Marxist historian and biographer of Stalin and Trotsky Isaac Deutscher gave a lecture on the topic of antisemitism to the World Jewish Congress held in London in September …
Reflection on the results of the 28 April 2019 general elections in Spain
Spain held general elections on April 28 called by the Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez. Sánchez had been leading a minority government after the previous prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, …