In 2016 the cohesion of the European Union was tested as never before. Popular dissatisfaction with the national and European neoliberal orders – culminating in Brexit – gave an impetus to populist radical right forces. Nevertheless, several elections and referendums checked this trend to some extent.
transform! 2017 critically examines key questions. Could populism also work as a political concept for the left? Is the polarity between left and right outdated? In this respect, this year’s volume contains detailed studies of the social composition and dynamics of populist-right voters and non-voters.
CONTENTS
Preface Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Eva Himmelstoss: The Left, the People, Populism
The European Union and the Left
Gregor Gysi: Europe – Quo Vadis? The Left and European Integration
Walter Baier: Twofold Disenchantment
Euclid Tsakalotos – interviewed by Haris Golemis
Pedro Chaves: Economic Governance of the European Union: Activate the Emergency Brakes?
Social Evolutions
Ursula Huws: The Future of Work: Neither Utopias nor Dystopias but New Fields of Accumulation and Struggle
Alexander Buzgalin: Time of Alternatives: The Left 100 Years after the October Revolution
Joachim Bischoff: Ways Out of Secular Stagnation?
The Left: Past and Present
Serge Wolikow: The Left and the Labour Movement in Europe – What History? From the 19th to the 21st Century
Roger Martelli: The Left, the People, Populism
Ludmilla Bulavka-Buzgalina: The Left Alternative – The Search for a Subject of History
Jukka Pietiläinen: What is Left in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Survey Data on Left Self-Location
Alberto Garzón: Analysis of the European Left
Lutz Brangsch: Back to the Roots?
Geoff Eley: What Produces Democracy? Revolutionary Crises, Popular Politics, and Democratic Gains in Twentieth-Century Europe
Michael Löwy: Ecosocialism – from William Morris to Hugo Blanco
Ulrich Brand et al: The Consequences of Climate Change for Left Strategy – A Roundtable with Judith Dellheim, Christoph Görg, Sabine Leidig, Andreas Novy, Melanie Pichler, Daniela Setton
Susan Zimmermann: Gender, Feminism, Antifeminism, Imperialism. Notes from a Gender History Perspective on the Current Debates around Male Immigrant attitudes towards Women
Voters – Right-Wing Appeals and the Left
Bernhard Müller: Right-Wing Populism – An Answer to the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Horst Kahrs: Voter Abstention as Class Electoral Behaviour – and the Weakness of Left Approaches
Gavin Rae: Non-Voting and Support for Left Parties in Poland
State of the Left: Country Reports
Richard Seymour: The Corbyn Moment: A Dialectic of Defeats
Yann Le Lann: Who Are In the Streets? Reflections on Nuit Debout in Paris
Pablo Sánchez: New Municipalism in Barcelona: A First Attempt at a Balance Sheet
Anej Korsika: Towards the League of the Balkan Left
Activity Report Maxime Benatouil (ed.): transform! europe 2016 at a Glance
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