Yanis Varoufakis’s European Dreams
A row over Italy’s budget threatens to push the European Union into fresh chaos. Yanis Varoufakis told Jacobin about his plans to save the EU from itself.
249 Article(s) by: David Broder
David Broder is Jacobin’s Europe editor and a historian of French and Italian communism.
A Foot in the Streets
France Insoumise’s Farida Amrani is the frontrunner to replace France’s former prime minister Manuel Valls as MP for Évry. Jacobin spoke to her in an exclusive interview.
The Resentful and the Damned
Matteo Salvini’s hard-right Lega used to want independence for Northern Italy. Today, the party is building a reactionary base in the South.
The Left Should Welcome Mélenchon
Liberals want to smear Jean-Luc Mélenchon as a xenophobe. In fact, they fear his potential to unite the oppressed.
Zoo Without a Giraffe
Italy’s Democratic Party wants to lead the resistance against the government’s hard-right policies. Yet the party seems close to its death-knell.
France’s Changing Climate
Last year, French president Emmanuel Macron gave liberalism a hip young face. Now the golden boy’s shine has started to come off.
Ninety-Minute Nationalists
Yugoslavia’s communists recruited so many football players that some even joined the partisans while still wearing their kits. But today, football in the Balkans is famous for its far-right extremism.
Hanging Over the Edge
The Genoa bridge collapse in Italy is an absolute disaster. It’s also the result of privatization and austerity.
Arsène Tchakarian (1916–2018)
Arsène Tchakarian was the last surviving member of a Communist military unit in the French Resistance. Mainly Jews and immigrants, they risked everything to fight the Nazi occupation.
A Life on the Front Line
One day in 1944, Madeleine Riffaud saw a German officer walking through Nazi-occupied Paris and shot him dead in broad daylight. At 93, she is one of the last survivors of the French Resistance.
When the Americans Came
Bombed by the US Air Force at the height of World War II, Rome’s San Lorenzo district symbolizes the resilience of a popular antifascism.
Domenico Losurdo (1941–2018)
Domenico Losurdo was an acute critic of liberal hypocrisy and double standards in history writing.
The Good Old Days
Madeleine Albright’s Fascism: A Warning is full of criticism of Trump — but it’s silent on the swamp from which he emerged.
Salvini’s Triumph
The collapse of the planned coalition government in Italy opens the way for a fresh breakthrough for Matteo Salvini’s hard-right Lega.
Discovering Shanghai in Paris
Mao’s Little Red Book united student radicals with Third World guerrillas.
Why We Fought
Luciana Castellina on the real ’68.
Historically Compromised
Aldo Moro’s murder on May 9, 1978 blocked the Italian Communists’ route to government and ushered in an age of political fragmentation.
Macron’s Anniversary
It’s been a year since Emmanuel Macron was elected. His “start-up presidency” is a liberal dystopia.
The Memory of the Defeated
Today marks the anniversary of Benito Mussolini’s execution. But the legacy of his regime continues to linger in Italian politics.
Notes on Italy’s Election
After yesterday’s Italian election, the old is dying and something superficially different but not altogether new has been born.