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Realism and Revolution

Revolution, whatever it may be and wherever it appears, is a chimera. It is easy to name, easy to advocate for its arrival, and difficult to know. As Yadh Ben…

The second government of Pedro Sánchez

These lines are written just minutes after President of the Government Pedro Sánchez announced that he remains at the helm of the government after practically announcing his resignation five days…

Cinema, propaganda, and the emergence of the multipolar world

The democratic nature of cinema should not be understood here as the characteristic of a given political system, but truly as a proximity to the working classes, by virtue of…

Who is the New World Order for? 
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ParCem Poyraz ÖzbayApr 23, 2024

In this way, multipolarity serves as a helping hand to local left forces more than anything. It doesnʼt have the power to enforce strict, ideologically backed political alliances as during…

Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant: the odd peace of westerners

It is clear that the balance of power is changing, and it is certainly not in favor of the “free world”, of the collective West. The addition of five centuries…

Divided but Together : Migrant Labor in the EU and in Turkey
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ParCem Poyraz ÖzbayAug 18, 2023

As orthodox economics has been unable to dig itself out of this whole it has created, one must as always turn to socialist political economy to find the answers needed…

The Eternal Scapegoat : Europe and its Migration Policies

In order to avoid difficulties with public opinion and, perhaps, because of the false idea that mass immigration would require an unsustainable economic and social effort, the EU is directly…

The Devil Came down to Helsinki
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ParCem Poyraz ÖzbayJun 23, 2023

On March 30th, the Turkish Parlement voted on Finland’s application to join NATO. After having made a remarkable fuss about opposing Sweden and Finland’s integration into the alliance on the…

The path to World War I : A historical fatality ?

The causes of the First World War are as hazy as they have been studied by hundreds of historians over the past century. Everything seems to start with the interweaving…

Si vis pacem para bellum : The war and the impossible “European strategical autonomy”

Does Europe exist? A negative answer to this question could be sustained with the same solidity of arguments than its contrary: on a side the total arbitrarity of the European…

The future of the future: The state of technical progress in Europe and elsewhere
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ParCem Poyraz ÖzbayMay 2, 2023

It is clear that there has been a slowdown in technical progress in the places where it used to be the most apparent, but what explains such a slowdown? Is…

The European educational policies : from democracy to Enterprise

The European myth is built on the public school system as the cornerstone of a democratic, peaceful, and happy world. But beyond universalism and formal rights, what have we done…

The Thermodynamic Nature of the 21st Century’s Resource Crisis

With the accommodation of thermodynamics to human matters in mind, why not analyse the economic process in thermodynamic terms? After all, production consists of the transformation of raw materials into…

What is “Balkanisation” ?

In Europe, we have observed for quite some time, especially since the 1990s, even though the phenomenon had been brewing for some time, the rise of a type of political…

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