As it appears divided and in retreat, the left thinks it has found a winning strategy: fight the extreme right, oppose anything it advocates, support everything it opposes. But this may require striking alliances with mainstream liberals and conservatives. On which terms? For whose benefits? And should it be done even if it also means ceding the anti-Establishment card to the extreme right?
Moderated by: Stipe Ćurković
Serge Halimi has been covering the United States – where he got his Ph.D in political science from U.C. Berkeley – for Le Monde diplomatique, a monthly publication he directed until recently. He also writes frequently on European politics and media issues. His best known books are Le Grand bond en arrière (on the history of neoliberalism) and Les Nouveaux chiens de garde (on French media).
