The AfD has long converted the use of parliament into an abuse of parliament. The strategy of undermining and disabling Germany’s parliaments — its 16 state parliaments and one federal parliament, plus numerous local councils — has been practiced by the AfD ever since it entered Germany’s state parliaments in …

Louis Althusser’s interpretation of Karl Marx is marked by a fundamental distinction between the early writings of Marx and the theoretical work that emerged from the mid-1840s onward. In For Marx and Reading Capital, Althusser develops the argument that Marx’s intellectual development cannot be understood simply as a gradual accumulation …

As Trump chose the path of barbarism, threatening to annihilate the Islamic Republic and dismantling international institutions, Lula took the UN pulpit to defend another path: diplomacy, dialogue and civilisation, and questioned a foundational idea of International Relations. The main international politics and geopolitical messages in Lula’s UN General Assembly …