Daniel Finn

1 month ago | znetwork.org | Paul Rogers |Daniel Finn

For now, the cease-fire deal between Hamas and the Israeli government appears to be holding, but Donald Trump’s proposal for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza has been the main focus of discussion for the past few weeks. We spoke to Paul Rogers about whether Trump is likely to follow through on his plan and what the Arab states can or will do to stop him.

Jan 13, 2025 | jacobin.com | Daniel Finn

Ten years ago today, just before reaching his sixty-second birthday, Mike Marqusee died after a long struggle with cancer. Marqusee, who was born in the United States but made his home in London, was one of the finest socialist writers of his time in the English (or perhaps any) language.

Jan 7, 2025 | progressivehub.net | Daniel Finn

Centrist politicians once based their whole pitch on the claim to possess “electability,” but now they can’t offer a sustainable formula for beating an increasingly militant right. They only develop a sense of urgency for the fight against the Left. By Daniel Finn, JacobinOver the last ten years or so, the idea of a vital and virtuous political center that simply must hold in the face of irresponsible, demagogic populism has become one of the great clichés of Western political commentary.

Jan 7, 2025 | jacobin.com | Daniel Finn

Over the last ten years or so, the idea of a vital and virtuous political center that simply must hold in the face of irresponsible, demagogic populism has become one of the great clichés of Western political commentary. Armed with a few half-digested quotations from W. B.

Jan 3, 2025 | mondediplo.com | Daniel Finn

In February 2015 Sinn Féin’s national chairperson Declan Kearney hailed Syriza’s coming to power in Greece and Podemos’s electoral advances in Spain as manifestations of ‘an ideological war that has engulfed Irish society and which stretches across Western Europe and the Americas’. Speaking at Sinn Féin’s party conference a month later, Syriza politician Euclid Tsakalotos had a similar message: ‘Syriza, Sinn Féin, Podemos and others are part of a great realignment in European politics’.