(From L to R) Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani. Parspix/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved.A historical conjuncture is a ‘period during which the different social, political, economic and ideological contradictions that are at work in society come together to give it a specific and distinctive shape’ – and provide conditions for a new state of social affairs.
For example, the coming together of BREXIT, a failed coup by New Labour MPs against Jeremy Corbyn and the general hostility of the media against him provided the Conservative Party with a tremendous lead over Labour. With an effective electoral machine behind Theresa May, the party portrayed the opposition leader "as an amusing, eccentric joke that could be squashed like a fly that had already had its wings ripped off."
Unlike Corbyn, however, May failed to realize that she was representing and defending a failed neo-liberal economy which, having been forced upon people for years in the form of ‘austerity’, has created simmering discontent.
