Populism

by Oleksandr Svitych* We are living in the times of the populist nationalist challenge to the liberal order. This challenge comes in many forms, including reactionary and progressive ones – from Marine Le Pen’s Front National in France to Jobbik in Hungary, to Manuel López Obrador’s MORENA in Mexico and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation in […]

The Home Secretary is a keynote speaker at the conference, which has previously hosted Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban, reports Karam Bales

The Home Secretary's tabloid-pleasing plans to float desperate refugees offshore are designed to distract from the Government's own failings, reports Adam Bienkov

Tunisia's populism and racially-charged purges offers chilling context for the UK's migration clampdown, writes Simon Speakman Cordall

Capitalism is corrupt, but its defenders say it can be regulated to become less savage. History shows that the tendency of power and money to aggregate and be monopolized in fewer hands makes the dream of regulated capitalism impossible.

The post “Regulated Capitalism”: a Fairy Tale first appeared on Ted Rall's Rallblog.

Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar consider what the progressive Left can do to counter dangerous hard-right thinking on the great social issues of our era