Donald Trump and the transition to Bonapartist rule
The Twitter Bonaparte casts a shadow – second of two parts Donald Trump was elected to the US presidency in a world different in countless ways from the world of […]
The Twitter Bonaparte casts a shadow – second of two parts Donald Trump was elected to the US presidency in a world different in countless ways from the world of […]
Part 1: the second Bonaparte (and the first) In 1848 the continent of Europe was engulfed in the flames of revolution. Absolute monarchies, princes and dukes were overthrown in Denmark, […]
The recent terrorist atrocity in Paris, like that of ten months earlier, has produced a range of political responses. First off the mark were the imperialist politicians. Instantly sensing an […]
Blaise Compaoré, the president of Burkina Faso who was forced to resign by mass protests on October 31, was more than simply a dictator who had clung to power for […]
The outpouring of hypocritical blather from imperialist politicians in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the D-day invasion of Normandy by US, Canadian and British troops in June 1944 was […]
On 4 August 1914, as the guns of the First Imperialist World War began sounding, the Socialist International shattered into a thousand fragments. The International had been built through sustained […]
One thing you will not find in the contemporary writings marking the centenary of the beginning of the Great War is a satisfactory explanation of the causes of that war. […]