Oliver Eagleton

Spoke to the ever fascinating @AntonJaegermm about the hyperpolitics thesis and populisms left and right, for @VersoBooks: youtube.com/watch?v=PeiGG8…

Lula has reduced unemployment, inflation and poverty to their lowest ever levels, and increased social spending to the highest rate in history—while balancing the books by taxing the rich. How did he do it? @rodrigo_toneto explains: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fisca…

@nihalist___ @carowoodley And all this on your birthday of all days!!

got called an anti-Semite by Labour Party door knockers for @carowoodley in Hackney when I told them there is no way in hell I’m voting for the genocide Labour Party. No wonder they’re losing votes left and right if this is the contempt that even Labour Party door knockers have

Mélenchon on the French municipal elections: 'In municipalities with more than 100,000 residents, RN is indeed gaining ground: +6.5 points. But LFI is progressing faster: +8.5 points. The decline in abstention is the antidote to fascism.' melenchon.fr/2026/03/20/ver…

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi on Mojtaba Khamenei: 'His elevation sends a clear message. The decapitation of the Iranian leadership has not produced capitulation. It has consolidated power in the hands of a younger and more militant generation.' phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war-a…

'The more the Trump administration tries to remake the Iranian power structure, the more cohesive it becomes. Its coercive apparatus is not a conventional military hierarchy, but a regime-protective architecture designed to deflect this kind of threat.' phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-v…

An interview with one of Brazil's leading foreign policy strategists, the legendary Celso Amorim, on Iran, Venezuela, and the degeneration of 'multipolarity' into 'spheres of influence': phenomenalworld.org/interviews/a-w…

"Starmer has allowed Trump to use US bases in Britain for his troop build-up around Iran. There has been a surge in US fighter jets and refuelling aircraft passing through RAF Lakenheath and Mildenhall on their way to the Middle East." declassifieduk.org/how-britain-co…

Former Chavista energy minister Rafael Ramírez on how he defeated the oil strike of the early 2000s and how Venezuela should mobilize to defend its sovereignty today: phenomenalworld.org/interviews/oil…

If the right and left of the previous decade could both be described as 'populist', this category no longer holds in the 2020s, as the right tightens its grip on establishment institutions while the left remains locked out of them. In today's Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Over two decades, support for the Workers' Party disappeared entirely in the agricultural belt that runs from south Brazil to the Amazon. Here @RugitskyF explains why: Lula failed to build a strong class coalition to protect the rainforest. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/battl…

The brilliant @IliasAlami and his co-authors on the emerging post-multilateral world order, and the strategies states have adopted to advance their aims within it: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/non-h…

From 'Half-Earth Socialism': how Cuba rapidly became the world's most ecologically sustainable country, while preserving universal healthcare and education, during the energy crisis of the 1990s:

From 2023: on how Matthew Goodwin went from pseudo-scientist of 'right populism' to unhinged practitioner of it. (Someone once told me that they overheard Goodwin at a party quoting various lines from this piece verbatim.) newstatesman.com/the-weekend-es…

A fascinating, blow-by-blow account of the factional struggle within the Iranian state as the backdrop to the recent revolt: 'Coercive power has fused with economic privilege. The effect has been to profoundly reshape the subaltern classes.' phenomenalworld.org/analysis/iran-…

One of the finest political economists writing on Latin America,@RugitskyF, analyses the attack on Venezuela through the lens of Great Power politics. 'Efforts to dismantle the profound interdependencies between West and East could easily backfire.' phenomenalworld.org/analysis/matri…

An incredible analysis of how ICE and Border Patrol unions spent years laying the groundwork for the new security regime taking shape under Trump: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enfor…

Not just a glimmer but a sunburst of hope: Andrea Egan is the best thing to happen to the British left in 2025 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

For @thebafflermag –⁠ on the peculiarities of the 'American civic religion', and how liberals have tried sustain their faith in empire during Trump II: thebaffler.com/latest/democra…

In the shadow of YP conference, @OrangoQuango and I had a 'beyond the factionalism' discussion about the problems with its launch and the party form today: youtu.be/kITZ2A7dgfk?si…