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The EU and the Turks: tough times ahead
Brutal assaults by the Turkish police on protesters in Istanbul and around the country during the last few days have invited a few expressions of ‘concern’ from EU capitals. Unfortunately, the EU’s...
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A u-turn in Turkish politics? Gezi Park in perspective
The simmering dissent and dissatisfaction unleashed at Gezi Park may not be enough to topple AKP's majority, but it threatens their political agenda as well as Turkey's democratic consolidation....
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A Turkish Spring?
Should Cameron, Obama, Hollande and Merkel remain tight-lipped about the disorder spreading across Turkey, we must conclude it is because they regard the measure of police force as an expedient that...
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Make no mistake, revolutionary struggle in Turkey is up and running! A reply...
Turkey will not tolerate, let alone a Saudi-type sharia law, but even a much more palatable mildly Islamist neoliberal conservatism, which is, incidentally, a direct descendant of the American...
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The demophobes and the great fear of populism
One might note that the less represented the ‘popular’ classes are in political parties, in parliament or in government, the more ‘populism’ is branded a threat.So we are all ‘populist’ now? Many in...
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The bedroom tax - making Rachmanism legal in the UK
The bedroom tax is not only socially destructive but, intentionally or otherwise, long term it is likely to have the effect of transferring large amounts of housing stock from taxpayers to banks. There...
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Quebec’s student movement: learning from Britain and the globe
The battle on tuition fees may have been won. But in order for Quebec’s student activists to develop and counter the new government’s ‘backdoor’ austerity, they must make use of the documented memory...
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Kermit Gosnell vs. Joshua Drah: abortion, stigma and conservatism
In America and Ghana two men have recently faced the courts for abusing women patients and performing dangerous late-term abortions. These cases reveal the true impact of the lack of comprehensive...
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Ageing men are changing men? The debate on men and crime
As men we have to recognize that our gender is more prone to violence and most sorts of crime. But does this mean we are unchangeably so? Personal experience, critical thinking and collective action...
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‘We want peace. We’re tired of war’
Julienne Lusenge spoke to Jennifer Allsopp at the Nobel Women's Initiative conference in Belfast about her work as a women's human rights defender in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).JA:...
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Turkey, from Tahrir to Taksim
The public demonstrations in Turkey are a challenge to the social destruction and political regression being pushed through by an autocratic prime minister. This is a moment for change, says Kerem...
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Reforming Turkish democracy
PM Erdoğan’s inflammatory policies point to the pitfalls of majoritarian style democracy in Turkey. The anti-government protests last weekend demonstrate that a move to a more consensus model of...
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Clare Gerada challenges Chris Skidmore's claims about immigration and...
Waiting times in Accident and Emergency departments have reached a nine-year high, according to new research released today by the Kings Fund. In the first quarter of this year, nearly 6% of patients...
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What does the increasing power of Hezbollah mean to the Lebanese state?
Their actions in Al-Qusayr hurl them far closer to the category of regional militant force, as the architects of a new framework of Middle Eastern skirmishes, in which Sunnis and Shiites become the...
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The beginning of the end for Hezbollah? Nasrallah’s strategic mistake
When the Assad regime is ultimately defeated, Hezbollah will have lost the majority of its military hardware, a significant portion of its forces, and its political clout in Lebanon.Hezbollah, the...
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Neither Turkish spring nor velvet revolution
A media that does not function as a check on the government will not be able to survive in the coming days and people will definitely question business relations between the media and the government....
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China may be far away but Foxconn is on our doorstep
Drawing on support from permissive governments, multinational manufacturer Foxconn has set up shop in Central Europe. Yet the transitory nature of the many migrant workers employed in these factories...
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3 reasons why Britain's Michael Gove doesn't understand creativity
The education secretary's reforms fly in the face of all that we know about creativity and how best to nurture it. If we want our children to prosper in the world yet to come his plans must be opposed....
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Sticks and stones
International public opinion once concerned Russian and Soviet leaders, but not any longer. Pussy Riot, the Navalny trial and now attacks on independent pollsters Levada Center, a partner organisation...
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The climate shift: think and prepare
The imminence of severe climate disruption makes the work of those planning for the event more vital than ever. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have passed the 400 parts-per-million mark...
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