Un’altra #Europa è possibile. Da oggi c’è il podcast #EUnicorn 🎧 Ogni mercoledì fino alle #europee una nuova puntata 🇪🇺 Si comincia con “Il cattivo d’Europa” Viktor #Orbán e parliamo di lui con ⁦Stefano Bottoni⁩ 👏 Link di spotify nell’articolo ⬇️ editorialedomani.it/politica/europ…

Cologne University has canceled philosopher Nancy Fraser’s planned professorship after learning she signed a pro-Palestine letter. In her first interview after the cancellation, Fraser says she won't let Germany stop her from standing up for Palestine. jacobin.com/2024/04/nancy-…

Remember how the British class system works:
Working class=owns business or multiple rental properties
Middle class=has job, lives in rented accommodation or uses public services
Elites=belongs to ethnic minority

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Envisioning a Autumn Chen game with Keir Starmer as noble leader of the Kautskyite Labour Party 2024 and Paul Mason as an overpowered advisor

“Forget the “cordon sanitaire” against the far right. Today, European neoliberalism is defended by a cordon into which such forces have already been integrated”

Europe’s Mood of War Is Whitewashing the Far Right

My piece / ⁦Jacobin⁩ jacobin.com/2024/04/europe…

Four years on, this has aged like the finest of milks

Mon reportage en Iran traduit par Jacobin
« Les sanctions financières génèrent des pénuries dévastatrices. Mais loin de mettre la République islamique à genoux, elles lui offrent de nouveaux leviers pour profiter de la misère »
Merci à David Broder
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Took forever to work out where I'd seen this face before

New boss at the Haas Formula 1 team, Ayao Komatsu is son of Yuichiro Komatsu, a Communist prisoner of the Imperial Japanese regime during World War II, in the early 1950s interim chairman of the Communist party leadership, and a Beethoven scholar

Great comments here by Cas Mudde 👀 on how, although Giorgia Meloni 'has lived her whole life in a truly fascist subculture', people deny she is on the far right because she supports Ukraine, which has now become the proxy for being liberal democratic.' youtu.be/GnDgRj-_ERU?si…

Eighty-five years ago, Francisco Franco declared victory in the Spanish Civil War. In an interview, historian Paul Preston tells Jacobin about the decisive role that Franco’s sympathizers in the British government played in crushing Spanish democracy. jacobin.com/2024/03/britai…

Fratelli d'Italia=Brothers of Italy, the country's ruling party right now under its neofascist PM Meloni. My Lucid essay on the normalization of Fascism, including public salutes to Il Duce, in Italy today.
lucid.substack.com/p/are-fascist-…

Vox MEP celebrating the 'liberation' of Madrid by Franco 85 years ago today with an appropriate photo. This is what their allies in the PP would describe as a 'patriotic nostalgic' tweet.

A Fratelli d'Italia group honours SS commander and Nazi collaborator Léon Degrelle 30 years after his death. Hitler's Belgian partner is cited recommending 'dying for a higher ideal' as the solution to contemporary 'decay'

David and I got engaged! In the most perfect location possible, a Workers' History Museum, under the watchful eyes of Lenin

Julie and I are getting married! After five years together, we're planning everlasting progress