Neoliberalism

Explanations for democratic backsliding in Hungary have so far neglected the role of neoliberalism and the resultant economic disintegration.

Neoliberalism is failing to meet the crises of our time. What in its worldview, social and ecological consequences call for putting it to rest?

It is time for Europe to fulfil its desired role as a standard-bearer in environmental, social and gender-based protection.

Still to be ratified, the EU-Mercosur agreement could entrench centuries-old inequality between the two regions, as well as threaten the planet.

This interview on eco-social struggle in Latin America highlights the importance of social movements and warns against the illusion of change from above.

Changing our relationships with time and work remains a key task for progressive forces everywhere. This an opportunity for green politics to suddenly become urgent.

What is algorithmic governmentality? What transformations are the tech revolution catalysing in society and politics? In this in-depth conversation, legal philosopher Antoinette Rouvroy questions the drive to rationalise all aspects of life through data and sets out possibilities for alternatives.

After 40 years of neoliberalism tearing at the social fabric, what form will the 21st-century counter-movement take?

In Poland the incumbent right-wing Law and Justice party, backed by the Catholic Church, demonised LGBT organisations in its recent successful electoral campaign. Adam Ostolski spoke to feminist activist and scholar Agnieszka Graff about why gender politics have become central to Polish politics, taking a step back to analyse how the Right’s scapegoating of gender is a response to the same set of social issues that the Left attributes to neoliberalism.

Human rights and neoliberalism both rose to prominence in the last decades of the 20th century, but what is the relationship between the two?