Red Bologna Today
Bologna’s Communist-led government made far-reaching reforms, but fatally ignored the revolutionary potential of the city’s youth.
19597 Articles by: Frances Abele
Frances Abele CM is Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy Emerita at Carleton University. She is a research fellow at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation and the Broadbent Institute. Much of her work focuses on indigenous-Canada relations.
A Brief History of ISIS
ISIS emerged out of the dashed hopes of the Arab Spring.
Bloco’s Anti-Austerity Gamble
The founder of Portugal’s Left Bloc on the party’s history, electoral strength, and support for the new Socialist Party government.
The Losing Battle
The Left continues to struggle against European unification — but the EU isn’t going anywhere.
How to Be an Anticapitalist Today
Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.
From Climate Crisis to Solar Communism
The proposals elites are offering at COP21 wouldn’t halt climate change. What would a socialist solution look like?
Austria’s New Right
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party has deployed populist rhetoric to swell its base. Now the party is eyeing state power.
Abortion Under Siege
The Right’s virulent anti-abortion rhetoric created the environment that led to the Planned Parenthood attack.
Sweden Shuts the Door
Sweden takes its generosity toward refugees as a point of pride. So why did it just impose harsh limits on asylum seekers?
The War on Climate Change
Framing climate change as a national security threat risks inviting the conventional response: more militarism.
Our Fight for Survival
Ahead of COP21, confronting fossil capital is our only hope for averting cataclysmic climate change.
In Defense of Public Housing
Imagine a future in which many of us live in, and thrive in, quality public housing.
Let Them In
Nativists and Islamophobes are sowing fear to try to close the door on Syrian refugees. We can’t let them.
The Backlash Turns Violent
The shooting of protesters in Minneapolis is part of a backlash attempting to quiet the movement against police brutality.
Hitler Wasn’t Inevitable
The anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials is cause to reflect on the forces that failed to halt Nazism’s rise.
The French Emergency
From Algeria to the Paris attacks, French elites have used state of emergency legislation to consolidate power and repress dissent.
With Strings Attached
Latin America’s conditional cash transfer programs don’t offer a real answer to poverty and inequity.
How the National Front Changed France
Marine Le Pen has taken the National Front into the French mainstream without shedding the party’s far-right politics.
Chomsky and His Critics
Noam Chomsky on ISIS, his foreign policy critics, and why socialist ideas are “never far below the surface.”
Why SEIU Backed Hillary
SEIU’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton displays the same shortsightedness that has contributed to labor’s decline.