The prospect of the far right taking power underlines the failure of technocratic government – and the need for true alternatives
In a summer overshadowed by war in Europe, a pandemic, an energy and cost of living crisis and climate chaos, Italy has decided to follow the UK and trigger a government collapse.
Mario Draghi, the internationally admired former head of the European Central Bank, was never elected but was called upon in 2021 to lead a temporary government of national unity. That unity ended last week.
Lorenzo Marsili is an Italian philosopher, the founder of the European Alternatives movement and author of Citizens of Nowhere
