The Guardian reports:
... Speaking at the Labour party conference in Liverpool on Sunday, Douglas Alexander drove home a frequently made point that throughout Europe – not just in the UK – the right is rampant and the left is more or less everywhere in retreat. "For a decade around 1997, the centre left was defeating the right. Now the centre right is beating the left," he declared.
During the past five years this has indeed been the dominant political trend in the European Union. It explains why the right, which has come to dominate the EU council of ministers and the European commission, has been able to sweep aside opposition to the European governments' economic austerity orthodoxy. However, the shadow foreign secretary may be missing evidence that this trend is now reversing.
Last week we had the success of the coalition of Social Democrats, the Socialist People's party and the Red-Green Alliance in the Danish general election. This week we have learned about the unexpected victory of the alliance of French Socialists and Greens in taking control of the French Senate – following a series of dramatic election victories for the left in the French regions earlier this year. [...]
The spirit of Karl Marx is rising from the grave (on Highgate Common, as I recall) to now conquer France, as he once hoped to conquer Germany:
Chairman Meow can be seen in the background, to the right.
CREDIT: STREET ARTIST FUKT
Communism rises from the grave
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