Jamie Mackay

Jamie Mackay is a writer and translator based in Italy. He is a contributor to openDemocracy, The New Statesman, VICE, Il Manifesto among others and a Press Coordinator at European Alternatives.

From zero to hero: how Jeremy Corbyn resuscitated UK Labour against all odds

Whatever the result on Thursday this unashamed socialist campaign has shifted what is politically possible in British politics.

Jamie MackayJune 6, 2017, 3:47 pmJune 7, 2017

Jeremy Corbyn, UK Grime Minister

This kind of intervention can make a difference.

Jamie MackayMay 17, 2017, 2:12 pmMay 17, 2017

World

Nanni Balestrini and the Poetry of the Italian Autonomia

What Balestrini’s poetry proposes is a poetics in which concepts like democracy and justice evaporate altogether, hollowed out by history.

Jamie MackayMay 11, 2017, 11:49 amMay 11, 2017

Life in Skoda’s Factory Town

Czechia, Slovakia, and some lessons learned

Czechia loses a voice, a university tries to lose its voice, and the PM voices a complaint

Abortions, amnesties and accusations: September in Czech and Slovak politics

Moving a statue the Czech way

The Future of European Gender Politics

Orbán sides with Erdoğan against the thousands of Hungarians protesting in solidarity with Rojava

Behind Viktor Orbán’s Surprise Defeat

Doomed to Failure: Orban’s neoconservative family policies in Hungary

Pockets of resistance in Orbán’s Hungary

Poland’s Changing Climate Activists

Under Attack: Reproductive Rights in Poland

Hope and Fear in LGBT Poland

Political Cynicism: The Case of Poland

Poland’s Future: A view from the countryside

Czechia, Slovakia, and some lessons learned

Abortions, amnesties and accusations: September in Czech and Slovak politics

Slovakia: Restricted cinema in the era of economic transformation

The White Dream of Marian Kotleba

Where are you going, Slovakia?

BLACK CLOUD – KYIV BIENNIAL 2019

What Europe Does Ukraine need?

Different languages and symbols but still our common fight

A New Lexicon for a New International

Against National Vigilante

Jamie Mackay

From zero to hero: how Jeremy Corbyn resuscitated UK Labour against all odds

Jeremy Corbyn, UK Grime Minister

Nanni Balestrini and the Poetry of the Italian Autonomia