Don’t miss our special section on the state of the European left in the new Jacobin —  including Seth Ackerman’s massive introduction on the deeper historical and economic background that lie behind today’s votes in France and Greece:

The default mode of left politics in Europe in the past four decades has been a steady narrowing of political horizons, a lowering of expectations. But Europe today is witnessing developments that may soon bring an end to the last forty years’ trajectory of steady left decline; whether what comes next will be a revival or a final collapse will be determined by events that lie closer than we think.