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Paul Mason

Paul Mason is a journalist, writer and filmmaker. His latest book is How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance (Allen Lane). His most recent films include R is For Rosa, with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. He writes weekly for New Statesman and contributes to Der Freitag and Le Monde Diplomatique.

Europe’s Far Right Copies Trump—And It’s Working

Paul Mason

Leaked plans show Germany’s far right plotting a radical power grab with global implications.

Trump’s Tariff Gamble: Global Chaos or Calculated Concessions?

Paul Mason

A looming trade war and security threats leave European leaders scrambling to decipher the American president's true intentions.

Britain’s Choice: Europe or a Collapsing America

Paul Mason

As the USA withdraws from European security, Keir Starmer faces a defining moment: realign with Europe or cling to a fading alliance.

Britain at a Crossroads: financial turmoil meets political threats

Paul Mason

Keir Starmer’s government finds itself on the frontline of a global power struggle.

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Draghi, Putin and economic warfare in Europe

Paul Mason

It has yet to dawn on Europe’s leaders, Paul Mason writes, that the whole continent is implicated in Russia’s war on Ukraine.

After Russia, Europe must wake up to China too

Paul Mason

Europe’s real problem with China is not electric vehicles. It is the elemental vehemence of the Chinese Communist Party.

Europe’s defence industrial strategy: beyond the rhetoric

Paul Mason

Whoever wins the US presidential election, Paul Mason writes, the EU has no option but to underpin its collective defence.

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Europe’s nightmare: an isolationist America

Paul Mason

A spectre is haunting Europe, Paul Mason writes. It is the spectre of Trumpism, mark two.

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A new world order: from warring states to citizens

Paul Mason

It will take decades of intellectual effort, Paul Mason writes, before a new world order emerges from the cumulative chaos.

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The answer to an anti-green backlash is to be redder

Paul Mason

Labour must not follow the Tories downwards, Paul Mason writes, as they grasp at electoral straws.

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On the wrong side of Britain’s history

Paul Mason

‘National Conservatism’, Paul Mason writes, fails to chime with British national-popular culture.

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Suave Sunak cold comfort for impoverished Britons

Paul Mason

Real incomes have been ravaged in the UK, Paul Mason writes. That’s why the strikes are popular.

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Behind Britain’s strike wave

Paul Mason

The Tory government, Paul Mason writes, is a victim of the skills shortages its ‘free markets’ have engendered.

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Pre-empting the coming world war

Paul Mason

Despite Ukraine, Paul Mason writes, Europe is still not awake to the security threat it faces.

Fresh-start Truss faces a ‘sudden stop’

Paul Mason

The UK is staring into an economic abyss for which it is wholly unprepared.

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WSI Minimum Wage Report 2025

The trend towards significant nominal minimum wage increases is continuing this year. In view of falling inflation rates, this translates into a sizeable increase in purchasing power for minimum wage earners in most European countries. Most EU countries are now following the reference values for adequate minimum wages enshrined in the European Minimum Wage Directive, which are 60% of the median wage or 50% of the average wage.

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The Summer issue of The Progressive Post is out!

It is time to take action and to forge a path towards a Socialist renewal. European Socialists struggle to balance their responsibilities with the need to take bold positions and actions in the face of many major crises, while far-right political parties are increasingly gaining ground. Against this background, we offer European progressive forces food for thought on projecting themselves into the future.

Among this issue’s highlights, we discuss the transformative power of European Social Democracy, examine the far right’s efforts to redesign education systems to serve its own political agenda and highlight the growing threat of anti-gender movements to LGBTIQ+ rights – among other pressing topics.

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