Alphan Telek is doctoral researcher in Sciences Po Paris and continues his doctoral studies in Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He is the academy director of İstanbul Political Research Institute (İstanpol). He is producer and presenter of “Religion, State and Society” TV program at Medyascope.tv.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Varoufakis and Sanders: how to organize a progressive international? A contributionThe precariat is a new global class. However, this class needs political representation and social power. Can the Progressive International be one way to do this?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Political precariatThe concept of the precariat has explanatory power day-to-day and transformative potential in the socio-political world. For a just and honorable life, we need the political precariat.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rising precariat and left-transformation: an examination of the Five Star Movement and Corbyn’s Labour PartyCorbyn’s Labour like the Five Star Movement has adopted a policy agenda based on political and social justice.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe return of ‘class and social justice’ in Iran and TunisiaThe new dimension of these social upheavals was a coalition between young educated people who think they have no future under the current system, and the least advantaged groups.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The origins of populism: bogus-democracy and capitalismThe reality of racism, hatred, anger, insecurity and inequalities is spreading irresistibly. There is no way of escaping from all these daily phenomena unless there is an alternative systemic project to challenge it. Español.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Left-transformation versus left-populism: why it mattersThe perception of political justice that transforms is very different from the discursive tool of the “national will” used by populists who degrade democracy by equating it with the ballot box.