The outcome of the Golden Dawn trial in October 2020 marked the completion of its delegitimization process, which had already begun at the societal level some years earlier. Almost the entire political spectrum welcomed the conviction, and its practices were now officially characterized as criminal. But what are the ideological patterns upon which Golden Dawn […]
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POLITICS OF LIBERATION
This edited volume hosts a collection of essays first presented at the Politics of Liberation seminar, held in Athens since 2022 under the auspices of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–Office in Greece. The seminar, now in its third year, has featured academics, politicians, journalists, political analysts and activists. The essays are indicative of the work being […]
The Balkans and Black Marxism
How can Black Marxism as an expression of the Black Radical Tradition help us critically study today’s Balkans? In his book Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson underscores the importance of feudalism and racialized social conventions for the beginnings of capitalism even while reformulating the significance of the Balkan–Eastern Mediterranean space as the periphery’s first geography of […]
A call to rasanblaj
The Haitian-American feminist anthropologist, artist and academic Gina Athena Ulysse engages in rasanblaj: a unique feminist and decolonial practice rooted in black aesthetics and the Haitian spiritual and historical experience. This volume attempts to broaden access to contemporary black radical thought and art, especially, to Caribbean genealogies. At the core of the volume is the […]
Greek Elections: Far Right Regroups
The imprisoned former leader of the Nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn, appears on the ongoing second degree trial, in order to promote the ‘Spartans’ which appeared suddenly in the June elections and made it into parliament with 12 MPs. ©Marios Lolos The result of the parliamentary election of 25 June 2023 in Greece […]
A Decade of Right-Wing Radicalization
A Decade of Right-Wing Radicalization Ten years after its founding, the Alternative für Deutschland shows no sign of moderating its politics by Gerd Wiegel* The rise of Germany’s leading right-populist party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) or “Alternative for Germany”, is unprecedented in the German political system. The AfD won 10.3 percent in the autumn […]
