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Kicking out at Kicking Off
It’s not a good idea to read the books you got for Christmas 2011 some time after Christmas 2012. But it does at least allow you to read zeitgeist-y political books with some perspective. This is very much the case with Paul Mason’s … Continue reading
Posted in Book review, protest
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Europe as antipolitics machine
The customers in this Westminster café seem a strange mix of suited civil servants and builders in boots and hi-vis. But it’s worth the early start and the cup of industrial strength tea to beat a path back to the … Continue reading
Posted in academia, EU politics, Ireland, protest, W European politics
Tagged antipolitics, crisis, democracy, ECB, Euro, Europe, European Commission, eurozone, Greece, Ireland, political parties, politics, populism, protest, technocracy, technocrats, UCD
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A spectre of … something is haunting Europe
Photo: Tom Morris, via Wikicommons At 8.30am I am sitting in a thinktank seminar on ‘subterranean politics’ in Europe. At 8pm I am sitting in launch event for a book about populism in Europe and the America. It is a … Continue reading
Posted in populism, protest, Uncategorized, W European politics
Tagged Czech, Europe, farright, Jobbik, Latin America, lse, mary kaldor, mike richmond, parties, politics, populism, protest, subterranean politics, ucl
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Bulgaria: Anti-Roma protests echo Czech events
Localised grassroots anti-Roma protests seen in the Czech Republic now seem to be repreated on a somewhat larger scale in Bulgaria: the Novinite agency is reporting clashes between riot police and a crowd of 3000 in the city of Plovdiv … Continue reading
Posted in Bulgaria, CEE far-right, Czech politics, economic crisis, protest, social issues, social policy
Tagged Bulgaria, Czech Republic, derex, farright, protest, racism, Roma
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Poland’s elections: Eyes down
As in 2007 Poland’s parliamentary elections in two weeks are being followed mainly as a battle between the (now incumbent) liberal Civic Platform (PO) and the conservative-national Law and Justice (PiS), which despite modest electoral revival has been on the … Continue reading
Czech Republic: ‘Sovereignty’ a party to watch
Last year’s Czech elections were noticeable for the political breakthrough of two new pro-market centre-right parties, TOP09 and which contributed to large, if now very shaky, majority centre right coalition, TOP09 and Public Affairs (VV). A less well noted feature … Continue reading
Posted in Czech politics, Czech Republic, political parties, populism, protest, Václav Klaus
Tagged Czech Republic, parties
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>Chronicle of a (party) death foretold
> I am not always the most astute of pundits, but as the dust settled a year ago even I could see that the Veci veřejné (‘Public Affairs’), the anti-establishment, anti-corruption party that was the surprise package last May’s Czech … Continue reading
Posted in centre-right, Czech politics, Czech Republic, ODS, political parties, populism, protest
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>They say cutback, we say… червен картон
> Sofia, 26 March 2011 Photo: BSP TV According to news reports, some 16,000 marched through the streets of Sofia under the auspices of the opposition Socialist Party to protest against unemployment and depleted public services. Allowing for differences in … Continue reading
Posted in Bulgaria, credit crunch, Czech Republic, economic crisis, protest
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>It was twenty two years ago today…
>That student demonstration in London against the Tory government that turned violent? I was there. Quite close to where it all kicked off, in fact, although by accident and I missed the more dramatic bits that got on the telly. But don’t … Continue reading
Posted in academia, British politics, populism, protest
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>Czech Republic: Protest and survive?
> You Tube carries some unedited video from left-liberal internet daily Deník Referendum of yesterday’s large trade union organized protests by public sector workers in Prague against wage and budget cuts. At 40, 000 the numbers are the highest since … Continue reading
Posted in Czech politics, Czech Re, left-wing politics, protest, public
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