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Crisis económica, ascenso de la derecha y debilitamiento de la izquierda
Fuentes: Contretemps El anuncio de elecciones anticipadas para el 23 de febrero supone un punto de inflexión en la crisis política latente que sacude a la primera potencia europea. La ruptura de la coalición entre socialdemócratas, verdes y liberales cristaliza los efectos de la recesión económica, que a su vez forma parte de una trayectoria descendente a más largo plazo, y las diferencias en materia de política exterior, en particular en relación a Ucrania.
El malestar alemán: crisis económica, ascenso de la derecha y debilitamiento de la izquierda
[El anuncio de elecciones anticipadas para el 23 de febrero supone un punto de inflexión en la crisis política latente que sacude a la primera potencia europea. La ruptura de la coalición entre socialdemócratas, verdes y liberales cristaliza los efectos de la recesión económica, que a su vez forma parte de una trayectoria descendente a más largo plazo, y las diferencias en materia de política exterior, en particular en relación a Ucrania.
Germany’s Anti-Palestinian Stance Is Rooted in Anti-Communism
In Heinrich Böll’s 1974 novel The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, adapted as a film a year later by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta, a young woman’s life is destroyed by the tabloid press, which invades her privacy and torments her on account of her fleeting romantic association with an alleged anarchist bank robber. Quite justifiably, readers and viewers at the time interpreted the work as an allegory for the prevailing political climate in the Federal Republic.
Kissinger in Cyprus
Ask anyone over the age of fifty in the Republic of Cyprus which single individual is to blame for the island’s ongoing division, and the answer will be almost unanimous: Henry Kissinger. He was US secretary of state during the fateful summer of 1974, when Turkish troops occupied the island following a Greek-sponsored coup. As such, many Greek Cypriots view him as the architect of American support for both the Greek and Turkish interventions that have divided the island in its present form.
Cyprus’s Polarized Elections Highlight a Crisis of Political Legitimacy
BYLEANDROS FISCHER Sunday’s Cypriot election brought victory for nationalist hardliner Nikos Christodoulides. The Left’s vote held up, but the campaign also showed its weaknesses in combining class politics with answers to the country’s enduring division. It was probably the most polarized presidential election in Cyprus’s recent history.
Cyprus’s Polarized Elections Highlight a Crisis of Political Legitimacy
On the surface, conditions in the past years have been ripe for a sustained left-wing challenge. Indeed, there have been many mobilizations, both by AKEL and by forces to its left, against attempts to allow land development into a protected nature reserve, against high rents, and against British military bases, alongside massive teachers’ and nurses’ strikes.
In Cyprus, the Golden Passports Scheme Shows Us How Capitalism and Corruption Go Hand in Hand
In April 2019, a Cypriot taxi driver picked up a wealthy Moscow-based couple from Larnaca airport, where they had landed with their Learjet. He brought them to the naturalization department of Nicosia’s Immigration Office, and then back to their jet for a return flight to Moscow. Their whole sojourn in Cyprus had lasted five hours — all the time needed for the process of acquiring two “golden passports” to be put on track.
The German Left’s Palestine Problem
It was a truly bizarre scene, worthy of a Peter Sellers film: a man frantically running through the Bundestag’s lifeless corridors. Behind him, another man, David Sheen, accuses him of smears and putting his life in danger from Israeli right-wing thugs. The man is Gregor Gysi, head of the Left Party’s (Die Linke) parliamentary caucus. He walks to a bathroom and closes the door shouting to Sheen “Raus mit dir!” (“Out with you!”).
Reuniting Cyprus?
The Left in Cyprus can only reemerge if it steps out of the confines of the “national question.” The media is once again focused on the prolonged dispute in Cyprus, as the leaders of the island’s Greek and Turkish communities attempt to arrive at a political settlement that would reunite the island. Cyprus has been partitioned since 1974, when a Greek-sponsored coup against President Makarios provoked Turkey into intervening, ostensibly to protect the island’s Turkish community.
A Shift to the Right?
On September 24, Germany will vote in what will is one of the least interesting and yet most important electoral contests since the Federal Republic’s founding in 1949. The campaign has been excruciatingly boring. Most observers take Angela Merkel’s victory as a foregone conclusion.
The New Militant Minority
Since the publication of in 1973, Stanley Aronowitz has been one of the most important left critics of the official US labor movement. His latest book, The Death and Life of American Labor , builds on and synthesizes much of this previous work, and is a provocative contribution to discussions of the road out of organized labor’s current crisis. At the core of The Death and Life of American Labor is a powerful critique of “bureaucratic business unionism” — the strategy of the US labor officialdom.
Turkey After Gezi
Today, 550 members of the Turkish national assembly (TBMM) will be elected. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), which have taken the country in both an Islamist and neoliberal direction, are seeking a commanding majority. If the AKP secures enough seats, Erdoğan will push for constitutional change that would transform the Turkish political system from a parliamentary government into a presidential one, granting him sweeping executive powers.
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