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Along with many others I believed that the economic and financial crisis that manifested itself in 2008 and 2009, however great the hardship it immediately caused, would usher in a more progressive politics across Europe. This proved overoptimistic, however. Instead Europe was swept by a new wave of neoliberalism that, far from being cowed by [...]
The populist-conservative zeitgeist, which tends to cast a spell over large swathes of the electorate in today’s Europe, may act as a common enemy for a progressive concentration of forces. Reports about the state of the European Left tend to be rather gloomy and depressing; no laughing material to cheer people up. But from the [...]
Former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone shares his thoughts on the state of the European Left and the Good Society in a Videoblog for Social Europe Journal.
Social democrats must find a new common language, and learn how to work with new social constituencies. Any serious discussion of the future of social democracy needs to assess the recent historical fortunes of social-democratic parties in government across Europe as a whole, as well as the enduring credibility of its key ideas. What can [...]
Sweden’s Social Democrats are still an inspiration for the rest of the European left. The Swedish Social Democrats were the most successful left-wing party in the last century, not only in the longevity of their years in government but also in their ideology and programmes. At their conference this autumn in Stockholm the leadership produced [...]
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