Joel Schalit
@jschalit
Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief @ The Battleground • i24News • Ex-EURACTIV, France 24 & Tikkun • Akashic Books, NYU Press & Pluto Press.
Hip-hop, hardcore, grime and drone. Joel Schalit, with this week's playlist, for The Battleground newsletter. [Link in comments]
The Battleground is proud to announce a book-and-record release party at London's MayDay Rooms on 7 July. Josh White will read from his brilliant Tories Are Dead, and Duncan Simpson and I will play tracks from our new field recordings LP, Outsidergrad. See the announcement below for details.
Centrist parties across the EU have long presented themselves as the guardians of European values, standing between “us” and the far right. At the same time, they're adopting the same language and policies, normalising extremist viewpoints. We Are Monitoring, for The Battleground. [Link in comments]
Few times of year offer as much for political photography in Torino as the period between 25 April and May Day. Between commemorative events and demonstrations, everything seems charged and worth recording. Five new pages of street and documentary photography, in The Battleground. [Link in comments]
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The Battleground is proud to announce the publication of Josh White's Tories Are Dead: 2024 UK Election Diary. Reviewers, get in touch. Battleground eBooks are distributed worldwide by London's Faber Factory. Get your copy from Apple Books.
Giorgia Meloni has discovered that the most useful period of Italian history is not the Fascist era but the Years of Lead (1968-1988). John Foster, on how Italy’s far-right premier is using memories of the terrorism-plagued period to justify strengthening the state and repressing civil liberties.
The Economist reminds you how much the world has changed in the last ten years. @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social, on the neoliberal mag, and its crisis of legitimacy under populism. [See link in comments].
End of Story makes the case for the importance of feature-length films at a time when they are in danger of becoming obsolete. Now available worldwide from Battleground Books.
In 2005, there was no Diaspora media like Tikkun. Though Michael Lerner and I had our differences, I will always be grateful for the room he gave me to produce issues like this as managing editor. Rest in peace, rabbi.
History at a standstill. Margaret Bourke-White retrospective advert, Torino.
This week's playlist is about colonialism, then and now, and surviving it at home and in exile. Joel Schalit, in The Battleground newsletter. thebattleground.substack.com/p/office-amb...
He's easy to mistake for an American. Josh White, on GB News and UnHerd publisher Sir Paul Marshall, and his Pentecostal cum libertarian remix of British populism. thebattleground.substack.com/p/charismati...
I spoke about austerity and misrepresenting migrants. Yours truly on the populist upsurge in the EU elections. i24News, Monday.