Archive of The Last Neoliberal

Edwy Plenel, author of For the Muslims, on the opportunity for an alliance of the main left-wing parties in the 2022 French legislative election.

Much has been made since Emmanuel Macron's victory over far right candidate Marine Le Pen on April 24th of the scale of his victory. But as Marlon Ettinger writes, with the two previously dominant parties on their last legs, the latest French election represents merely another breakdown in the country's conventional political scene, one that could provide openings for both the left and the right.

In a text full of anger but also hope, the anthropologist Alain Bertho focuses on the stakes of the presidential election between the two rounds.

Marlon Ettinger reports from France on the aftermath of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's campaign, its effects on the frontrunning candidates, and its creation of a new left bloc in French politics.

Back in February, Stefano Palombarini, co-author of The Last Neoliberal, dreamt of a second round debate between Macron and Melenchon staging a confrontation between two opposing political visions. Melenchon did not make it to the second round of the 2022 French presidential elections, but is there still hope for the anti-neoliberal left?

Stefano Palombarini, co-author of The Last Neoliberal, marks the return of the technocratic Italian Prime Minister and warns that this is only the morbid symptoms of a politics without future

Bruno Amable, author of forthcoming The Last Neoliberal, explores how the ‘visionary’ speeches of the current French leaders to reveal an authoritarian turn.