Leandros Fischer is a postdoctoral researcher in migration studies at Aalborg University. He has previously taught at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia and conducted fieldwork among migrants to Cyprus from the Middle East. He is active in movements for the right to the city in Limassol.
Sunday’s Cypriot election brought victory for nationalist hardliner Nikos Christodoulides. The Left’s vote held up, but the campaign also showed its weaknesses in combining class politics with answers to the country’s enduring division.
Al Jazeera’s Cyprus Papers have exposed a corrupt trade that sells citizenship on the Mediterranean island. But Cyprus is no rogue state: its “golden passport” scheme is firmly rooted in the logic of global capitalism, which makes everything — including citizenship — a commodity.
Election results in Cyprus suggest an endorsement of austerity. But the reality is more complex.
Die Linke’s electoral result shows what the party must do to really contend for power.
Commentators and politicians have taken a rightward shift in German society for granted. But the reality is much more complicated.
Helmut Kohl (1930–2017) paved the way for Germany’s current hegemony in Europe.
In Germany and elsewhere, making tactical concessions to the Right isn’t just bad socialist politics — it won’t work.
The Left in Cyprus can only reemerge if it steps out of the confines of the “national question.”
What can the history of Greek populism tell us about Syriza’s election victory?
Syriza wasn’t the first left party to come to power in Europe. What can we learn from Cyprus’ AKEL?
Die Linke’s Oskar Lafontaine on “anti-systemic” parties and how to forge a democratic Europe.
Die Linke’s position on Palestine has isolated it from the global solidarity movement.