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Fundamentalism and education
At a time when global warming requires that we do our most creative thinking, public education and free thought are under attack by both austerity programs and religious fundamentalism. So where are...
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Bulgaria, protest for the future
Bulgarian citizens are protesting across the country against the capture of their government and for a meaningful democracy. A memorandum from Sofia outlines the heart of their case.Demotix/Katya...
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Radio Jittery
The crisis that has shaken the Moscow bureau of Radio Liberty over the last year appears to be drawing to a close. Zygmunt Dzieciolowski spoke to its Acting President and CEO Kevin Klose about his...
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Bulgarians confront the oligarchs
The streets of Sofia are awash with demonstrators: the terms of this protest movement, as in Sao Paulo and Istanbul, are the twin themes of justice and equality.A street protest in Sofia, Bulgaria....
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This week's window on the Middle East - June 26, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Israel: on music, the Academy and the cultural boycotts.Israel: on...
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The far right in Burma, India and Sri Lanka
Far right religious nationalism is growing in South Asia. Fuelled by the experience of colonialism, the resulting internal tensions since independence, and powerful civil society movements.Burma is a...
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Populism and the enchanted world of ‘moderate politics’
Why do some political scientists seem oblivious to the fact that the ‘moderates’ who let down their electorates are mainly responsible for their own demise? A reply to Catherine Fieschi’s Who’s afraid...
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What England can learn from the US - health privatisation and AIDS activism
Health must be provided socially yet the NHS needs some fundamental reshaping. Campaigners should look at the AIDS activism of the US in the 80s - it's not enough to win the arguments, you need social...
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Keep the faith - a review of the UK's People's Assembly
On Saturday 4000 activists gathered in London to discuss austerity and privatisation, and how to respond. Caroline Molloy found a lack of space to fully participate and shape solutions - but shoots of...
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Lest we forget
As the UK public are invited to celebrate the razzle-dazzle of very British pipes, drums and loud bangs on their recently-constituted Armed Forces Day, Up in Arms asks how war impacts on national...
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Get ready for Transformation
“Oh, cool! So, uh, what's it about?” That's the usual response when I tell people I'm editing a new section of openDemocracy titled “Transformation: where love meets social justice”.“Oh, cool! So, uh,...
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São Paulo: the city and its protest
While the recent protests in São Paulo are made up of a cross-section of Paulite society 'waking up' to social injustice, it is young people from the urban periphery, those which have 'never slept' who...
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This is what 21st century unionism should look like
The pooling of democratic funds should not be funnelled exclusively into any single party, particularly one so frequently hostile to worker's interests. Instead union funds should be dispersed to...
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Burn up not out; four suggested projects for UK activism
At the moment, there are few anti-capitalist social movements that have any real impact. Aaron Peters examines four structures that would aid their plight and boost the movement's political...
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‘Human Rights’ must join activists in social struggle
Stephen Hopgood wrote in ‘Emerging powers and human rights’ of the not always subtle distinction and looming abyss today between <a href=">what he calls ‘Human Rights’ and ‘human rights’. Our...
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Welcome to the Ministry of Social Transformation
Looking for alternatives to “the denial-laden pseudo-optimistic think-happy-thoughts crap that so often passes for spirituality in numb, consumerist America?” Check out the work of the Protest...
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Ignoring the facts: Fear and lawmaking in the UK
Defying her own experts, the UK Home Secretary has decided to use an evidently failed method to fight problems that don’t exist because she’s afraid of what she can’t see because it isn’t there. What...
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The scapegoats of Empire: racism and resistance in the city of romance
As the citizens of Venice propagate myths about the city’s expanding 'oriental' workforce they humiliate members of their own community and allow the island’s true invaders to escape justice....
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Spying, Bulgaria and the long road to Ithaka - weekly comments roundup
A look at this week's best reader comments on our Can Europe make it? debate. We begin with an important article by Ben Hayes on thetimidity and hypocrisy in the EU’s response to the NSA spying...
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Defending the indefensible
Favourite lawyer of the Russian far right, Dmitry Bakharyev is developing a network of clubs for like-minded nationalists — teaching them knife, rather than ball, skills. He hopes they will form the...
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