CONSERVATIVES & REACTION

EDITORS—This narrative of a “softening” does not stand up to analysis, masking police excess when faced with protesters. A freelance journalist was injured thus and had a testicle removed after being struck with a baton by a policeman during a protest on January 19 in Paris. Moreover, the apparent change in strategy after the appointment of Laurent Nuñez did not stop the unjustified beatings of a few dozen people protesting peacefully during police charges (January 19, January 31, and February 11).

In particular, from March 16 on, and after the government forced through its pension reform without a vote by using Article 49.3 of the Constitution, journalists and observers have documented widely how police forces have used physical violence against protesters. They have employed arbitrary arrest, and tactics of humiliation during the night-time marches (which unions didn’t declare) after the recourse to Article 49.3.

HAMMI—In this insightful episode, I sit down with political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein to discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the implications of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Finkelstein examines the progression of Israel’s military strategy toward Gaza, tracing it from past operations to the current crisis, and offers his perspective on the U.S. candidates and what their potential leadership means for the future of American foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere. Join us as Finkelstein shares his unfiltered analysis on one of today’s most urgent issues, providing historical context and a candid look at what’s ahead.

MAIN EDITORS—Profs Michael Hudson and Richard D Wolff, both among the most original and articulate critics of globalism (aka Neoliberalism, Free Marketism, etc.), offer an incisive view of Western civilisation in its global imperial phase as the US Empire and its satellites struggle to keep the system’s hegemony afloat in the midst of incurable structural issues, and an indefensible foreign policy grounded in reckless chaos creation.

EDITOR—Garland and Laith analyse how Israel’s depraved attack on Palestinians is now generating a “long war of attrition” whereby the “Axis of Resistance”—Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, Hamas, Iraq, and Yemen’s Houthis, among others—may emerge as the victor, with a possible dissolution of Zionist Israel itself as incompatible with regional and universal values, and ultimately unsustainable from a military, diplomatic, political and economic perspective. 

THOMAS FAZI—The Wagenknecht phenomenon is fascinating — and unique — for several reasons. Not only has she managed to establish the BSW as one of the country’s major political forces in a matter of months, but she’s also running on a platform that is unique in the Western political panorama, at least among electorally relevant parties. Though Wagenknecht tends to avoid framing her party in tired Left-Right terms, its platform can best be described as left-conservative.