Pavlos Roufos

brooklynrail.orgThe Ratline, Neoliberalism, and the New Right in Chile | The Brooklyn RailThe following attempts to situate José Antonio Kast’s victory within the long trajectory of Chile’s violent neoliberalisation.

30 Apr

Part II of neoliberalisation through dictatorship of Chile and its contemporary continuity just published in the May issue of the Brooklyn Rail. brooklynrail.org/2026/05/fiel...

Pavlos Roufos@proufos.bsky.social

Part one of the unending neoliberalisation of Chile, published in the Field Notes of The Brooklyn Rail. >> Part Two will be published in the May 2026 Issue. brooklynrail.org/2026/04/fiel...

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Albumism

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The Berlin youth organisation of the CDU has called for the deployment of military forces to *prevent* planned protests by pupils against ... militarisation. Not only an *unconstitutional* use of the army in the name of "protecting democracy" but another case of normalising fascist tactics.

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Albert Pinto

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9/ "for every dollar that the IMF provides to a poor country for social spending, it requires the country to cut 4 TIMES more through austerity measures" We have warned since 2022 about Centrist political response of Austerity which creates far-right monsters. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

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Albert Pinto

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France is not alone in its social crisis. The majority of the world’s governments have undertaken class war austerity policies, under either direct IMF pressure or the indirect discipline of other creditors. We wrote about austerity -> protests ht @IsabelGSJ phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

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Albert Pinto

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12/ A driver of Gen Z protests: Lack of Investment -> Underemployment -> UBERIZATION OF WORKING CLASS ie GIG ECONOMY FT: In Brazil, "almost 2mn people, mostly men, now work full-time for transport or delivery apps — around 2% of the workforce — with driver #'s climbing 37% in 3 years"

Everything is on fire. Meanwhile in Berlin.

cambridge.orgEconomic Thought and the Making of the Euro: Intellectual Patterns and Policymaking in European IntegrationWelcome to Cambridge Core

It is not often that conferences/workshops are accurately reflected in subsequent publications but this is definitely one of those cases. Great work by @manumourlon.bsky.social!

Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol@manumourlon.bsky.social

Our Forum in @conteurohistory.bsky.social investigating economic thought and the making of the euro is finally online, and in Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wonder if the indignation towards the destruction of historical and cultural artifacts will remain equally indignant if it turns out that the fire in Limoges was started by tear gas and explosive grenades.

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Bruno Amable

@brunoamable.bsky.social

Les fascistes à la recherche de leur incendie du Reichstag.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof

"Well it's been a long time, long time now Since I've seen you smile.. ..Nobody raise your voices, just another night in Nantes"

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Charles de Lacombe

@charles.de-lacom.be

Tiens donc, les manifs sont interdites aujourd’hui à Lyon. (mais ne vous inquiétez pas, on a deux mois pour contester l’arrêté paru aujourd’hui pour aujourd’hui 🖕) www.rhone.gouv.fr/contenu/tele...

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@evanbernick.bsky.social

going about this all wrong. you‘re supposed to flee to *Sparta* and then defect to Persia

Raw Story@rawstory.com

Kimberly Giulfoyle is reportedly "holed up" at the official ambassador's residence in Athens after being asked to resign by President Donald Trump, as new allegations emerge about her efforts to get wealthy businessmen to cover a luxury SUV debt.

bit.lyKimberly Giulfoyle ‘holed up’ in Athens with no one to trust after Trump ouster: reportKimberly Giulfoyle is reportedly “holed up” at the official ambassador’s residence in Athens after being asked to resign by President Donald Trump, as new allegations emerge about her efforts to get wealthy businessmen to cover a luxury SUV debt.“I have no one that I can trust over here,” Giulfoyle ...

youtube.comThe IMF and SDRs Under Bretton-WoodsYouTube video by Deficit Owls

Really sad to hear of Perry Mehrling's death. His money hierarchy theory was very captivating and his book on Kindleberger a wonderful read. I always show this video to my students when teaching about Bretton Woods and its collapse & will continue to do so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ape4...

My friend, it’s been hibernating for ages. Now it’s just dead.

Jumping on the bandwagon of other EU far right parties, AfD abandons its foundational anti-EU stance and develops a plan to change it from within. Truth be said, apart from somewhat weakening the existing EU bureaucracy their aims are hardly incompatible with the existing conditions.

Thu Nguyen@onethuthree.bsky.social

Finally read the new AfD strategy paper on Europe. It casts 2029 as a “historic window” to reorient the EU’s foundations through Treaty change, with a right-wing majority in the EP and a German government with AfD participation both within reach. Thread on some notable points:

Hans Kundnani’s prediction of a far-right Europe appears to have been simply dependent on the far-right itself realizing (following Meloni) that the EU could be recalibrated for their own purposes.

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Phobos 🌈

@phoboscosplay.com

Je suis morte, y'a la POLICE nationale qui diffuse des pubs sur Tiktok pour dire aux lycéens de rester calmes et que "la police est là pour protéger des dangers" - et y'a pas moins de SIX MILLE commentaires pour dire que c'est du foutage de gueule mdrrr vm.tiktok.com/ZGdCrTRdx/

I could really, really do without the “wishing you good luck in your future plans” in the end of rejected applications 😡

According to figures of the Education Minister, nearly 200 pupils have been injured since the start of the protests. Among the most serious injuries are: gouged-out eyes, a torn-off jaw and, this morning, a hand blown off by a police grenade. [Dated, 6th of October 2026]

Brevesdepresse@brevesdepresse.bsky.social

🔴🇫🇷FLASH - Près de 200 élèves ont été blessés depuis le début de la colère des #lycéens, selon le décompte du ministre de l’Éducation. Parmi les #mutilations les plus graves : yeux crevés, mâchoire arrachée ou encore, ce matin, une main explosée par une grenade policière.

agarzon.substack.comBuilding more homes won't solve the housing crisisWhen housing becomes a financial asset, a million new homes may end up housing capital rather than people

Great text from Alberto Garzón agarzon.substack.com/p/building-m...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

17 July 2025

🚨NEW: A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador: mass disappearances. It's possible there are DOZENS of additional people the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial who are imprisoned there whose names have never been disclosed.

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Wcrt L

@l-wcrdt.bsky.social

« Tu vas voir qu'ils vont faire une minute de silence pour les poubelles » Mouvement lycéen, Paris, 06/10/26.

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Aurelien Mondon

@aurelmondon.com

The prime minister "condemns the phrase "police violence"" as the police attacks young people violently across France It's a wonder why so many people, young or not, feel such a disconnect with those who govern them... The issue is not "populism" or "polarisation", it's mainstream authoritarianism

Back in March 2023, I had written a long thread for (awful) twitter on the question of police violence and mainstream liberal support for it. 1/

And that whoever doesn’t abide, will be met with state violence. 18/

State violence, however, is one side of this conflict. On the other side we have solidarity, the formation of new relations and communities, the development of new means of struggle. Because in contrast to the existing political economy, it is we who do not have an alternative. 19/End

Back in March 2023, I had written a long thread for (awful) twitter on the question of police violence and mainstream liberal support for it. 1/

The question of a collapsing education system is a direct consequence of decisions based on labour market forecasts, the constantly evoked boogeyman of public debt - which always tends to disappear when re-armament and preparing for war is discussed - and "balanced budgets". 16/

People are taking to the streets in France and Spain (today) and elsewhere (tomorrow)for the same reasons and against the same conditions. And everywhere they are getting the same response: neither the causes nor the consequences of the visible worsening of overall conditions are negotiable 17/

Back in March 2023, I had written a long thread for (awful) twitter on the question of police violence and mainstream liberal support for it. 1/

But none of the current movements confine themselves to these topics. Because none of these topics are separate from the overall malaise and lack of future that affects everyone, everywhere. 14/

Affordable housing is made impossible because of its link to commodification and financialization, processes too familiar for anyone paying attention to the modern world and by no means confined to Spain. 15/

Back in March 2023, I had written a long thread for (awful) twitter on the question of police violence and mainstream liberal support for it. 1/

The movement in Spain was triggered by the entirely justified demand for decent and affordable housing for all and the refusal to stay quiet and simply accept the “laws of the market”. 12/

The kids in France are in the streets because the education system is collapsing, especially in those parts deemed “too proletarian to give a f**k”. 13/

Back in March 2023, I had written a long thread for (awful) twitter on the question of police violence and mainstream liberal support for it. 1/

What is now becoming more apparent, in France, Spain or anywhere else, is that this is now the expected response of the state, *no matter who governs*. 10/

This follows from a growing realisation (perhaps on all sides) that there is no more space for any politics of integration, for reforms that can calm social conflict, for mediation. 11/

Back in March 2023, I had written a long thread for (awful) twitter on the question of police violence and mainstream liberal support for it. 1/

It would not even suffice to point at the full normalisation of fascist/far-right forces and discourse and the spreading of authoritarianism which today sits in government in many more countries than it did in 2023. 8/

[Note: bravely fought back and neutralised, fascist attempts to attack the encampments in different parts of Spain do nonetheless indicate a more unhinged attitude from these cosplaying Stormtroopers] 9/

Back in March 2023, I had written a long thread for (awful) twitter on the question of police violence and mainstream liberal support for it. 1/

Watching the scenes from France and Spain today, it is *not enough* to say that nothing has changed.. 6/

.. or even to say that this process has been accelerated. (More than 5k young people have been arrested in France in the last days, which is roughly half the amount arrested *during a whole year* of Gilet Jaunes). And already we have protestors mutilated and losing their eyesight. 7/

Back in March 2023, I had written a long thread for (awful) twitter on the question of police violence and mainstream liberal support for it. 1/

Yet, if liberal support for authoritarianism in the interwar period was based on a real or imagined existential threat emanating from a massive workers’ movement willing to use violence.. 4/

… contemporary justifications appear as even more sinister and hypocritical, given that *there is no equivalent threat* and contemporary protestors never use equivalent forms of violence. 5/

Back in March 2023, I had written a long thread for (awful) twitter on the question of police violence and mainstream liberal support for it. 1/

The trigger behind that thread was the truly unbelievable level of police and judicial violence in France at the time. It felt like adding a historical grounding to this was relevant. 2/

The gist of that thread was that conservative/liberal support for authoritarianism (as, for example, in the form of insane police brutality with full impunity) had a long historical background - one that continues to guide contemporary approaches. 3/