My interview with Howard Nicholas on international trade and global development

Howard Nicholas teaches at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), in The Hague. His research interests are Economics of Continue reading →

Six considerations on the French elections

The exhaustion of traditional parties. The absence of both mainstream political parties that have dominated French political life for the Continue reading →

The truth behind Front National’s change of heart

This article was published on openDemocracy. Marine Le Pen’s Front National (FN) is leading in the polls of the upcoming Continue reading →

Europe’s border regime leaves the Mediterranean a (profitable) graveyard

This article was published on The New Arab In April 2016, European Council President Donald Tusk wrote that the EU needed a Continue reading →

Brothers in arms: Europe’s right-wing and religious extremists

This article was published on The New Arab In recent years, rhetoric in Europe that stigmatises Muslims and Islam has Continue reading →

Trump’s aggression of Iran is the continuation of U.S imperialism

This article was published on The New Arab. On February 3, the Trump administration imposed new sanctions on a number of Iranian Continue reading →

Promise on the Belgian Left (Interview with Peter Mertens)

This article was published on Jacobin Magazine. The Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB) has seen surprising gains in recent months. Continue reading →

Palestinians need mass mobilisation

This article was published (in a slightly edited version) on The New Arab. The last decade has been catastrophic for Continue reading →