Posts tagged: elections

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  Barrage to Catalonia

  The 1 October referendum and its aftermath has exposed the extent of the democratic crisis in Spain — and Europe generally — rather than provided an answer to it.

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  Dehumanization by Deification: On Kamala Harris and "Black Women Will Save Us"

  “Black women will save us!” has become a kind of liberal refrain following the presidential election (where 94% of Black women voters supported Clinton) and the emergence of Maxine Waters and Kamala Harris as congressional gadflies.

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  Country for Old Men

  Youth grievance was a major part of the 59 per cent vote that forced the resignation of Italy's former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in December 2016. Crankish remarks by the Democratic Party’s labour minister about young people leaving the country reflect the often gerontocratic codes of Italian public life, but they also drew political debate back onto one of the country’s defining social ills.

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  The Beating Heart of Macronism

  If we can place any reasonable hope in the Macron presidency, it is that everything is going to become very, very obvious. Which is to say, odious like never before.

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  Performances

  

  In any case, what sticks out amidst this mass vote is a feeling of absurdity. The absurdity of a mechanism that brings to power a man we know nothing about, and who has grounded his success precisely in his capacity to say nothing (the back cover of his book Révolution has not one line of text, but just a full page photo of Macron himself). The absurdity of a system that gives a crushing majority to such a man, in order to avoid a danger that is largely imaginary. Most of all, the absurdity of a focus on elections that we all feel have nothing to do with our lives, and which we all feel are playing out on a sort of flying carpet, above our heads.

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  Building a Political Alternative: Stathis Kouvelakis on the French Presidential Election

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  Let's Now Make Sure the Fight Continues

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  What tomorrow will be…

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  "Nothing Happened as Expected": Reflections on the French Elections

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  Let’s lose interest in elections, once and for all!

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  The Macron Phenomenon

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  Investment Bankers for Revolution, Fascists for the Republic