In this fourth and final part of his series on Germany, the author writes of the end of an era in the country and a renewed search for its identity.
Patrick Lawrence: Wanderers & Seekers
Tag: social democracy
Craig Murray: Social Democratic Britain’s Strange Death
There simply is no left-wing party among the complex pattern emerging in English politics.
Patrick Lawrence: The Lost Man of Europe
Germany demonstrates the Continent’s abandonment of its honorable social-democratic traditions and its embrace, with the zealotry of the convert, of the neoliberalism of the Anglosphere.
The UN’s Vague ‘New Agenda for Peace’
Vijay Prashad says that the report — apart from identifying the conflict between the unipolar and multipolar worlds, and showing concern over the metastasizing weapons industry — throws moral scaffolding over hard realities it can’t directly confront.
Sweden’s Social Democrats Turn Back to the Left
Before next year’s general election, the Social Democrats may have time to present an alternative to the most conservative opposition ever seen in Sweden, writes Maria Oskarson.
In Quest of a Multi-Polar World
Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar resume their conversation about a global monetary system that appears headed for divorce.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Talk of Another Pink Tide
Expect an orgy of U.S. subterfuge. If there’s one thing Washington cannot abide more than a working social democracy, it’s a working social democracy in Latin America.