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How the Left Can Rise Again.(Business)(social democrats)
Byline: Denis MacShane; MacShane is a Labour M.P. and former Minister for Europe in Britain.
This should be the left's big chance in Europe. Capitalism is in crisis. Growth is collapsing. Unemployment is rising, and the state is back in business. The time is ripe for the left to push a coherent alternative to the right's free-market vision of the world. But no, the classic 20th-century parties of the left--social democrats in Northern Europe, socialists in the Mediterranean, Labour in Britain--are struggling, and 20 of the European Union's 27 member states have a right-wing government head. They include Nicolas Sarkozy in France, Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and ...
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