The European Parliament’s conflation of Soviet Communism and Nazi-Fascism, says more about the present paranoia surrounding populism than it does about the past. This distortion of history should be of grave concern for democrats across the political spectrum.
Is there a gap between conservative neoliberalism and conservative nationalism, within which emancipatory ideas could come to life again, albeit embraced in a perverse dialectics?
Kalypso Nicolaidis is one of hundreds of European citizens becoming British every week. She has just published an exploration of Brexit through Biblical and Greek Mythology( "Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit”, London: Unbound).
Recent signs of mobilisation by precarious workers in Ukraine have refocused public attention on labour rights. But with prevailing public conditions opposing worker mobilisation, how far will this movement go?
