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The Labour Party's real challenge is finding a radical voice
Will the UK Labour Party ever really, vocally resist Conservative policies? They should be engaging young voters on global social inequality.The UK Labour Party has been challenged to a radical new...
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Security and status determination for urban refugees in Malaysia
It seems probable – and entirely reasonable - that it will take several years to build trust in a ‘new’ Myanmar that is safe to return to.But in a context of perpetual fear and insecurity, how will...
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Women’s rights under threat in Iraq
Few disagree that the Iraqi government’s increasingly Shia character has alienated its Sunni population—but what has mounting sectarian division meant for the rights of women and girls?Last October,...
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The greater (and shorter) decriminalisation story: it's the physics of...
Brian Winston explains how the hypothecated tax and the BBC have gone together for the last 92 years like love and marriage: ‘you can’t have one without the other’. The BBC has a wonderful story to...
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Invasion of the data snatchers
How Big Data and the Internet of Things means the surveillance of everything. There’s simply no way to forecast how these immense powers - disproportionately accumulating in the hands of corporations...
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The conscience of Syria: An interview with activist and intellectual Yassin...
A popular Syrian intellectual responds to questions on the Syrian conflict and the west. Throughout, Yassin confronts andreframes several western fears and constructs about Islamists, intervention and...
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On Lebanese sovereignty
The issue of what sovereignty means, and how it can be enforced, should not be confined to the defensive sphere alone. Increasing resentment against Syrians in the domestic sphere, and offhand...
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Turkey’s local elections, Erdoğan and the spectre of Gezi
People in Turkey are being forced to see the world as a zero-sum game between Berkin and Burakcan, to embrace one and condemn the other. Erdoğan is trying his absolute best to pull as many voters as...
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The shadowy hijacking of Bogota’s democracy
The Santos regime finally (and illegally) removed one of the few honest politicians in Colombia - the democratically elected, socialist Mayor Gustavo Petro - from office last Thursday, after only two...
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Ukraine – hoping for peace but preparing for war
Ukrainians have accepted the loss of Crimea, but discrimination against dissenters has already started and partial mobilisation makes them very apprehensive that they may be called on to defend their...
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The Rohingya refugee making factory
If the production of refugees was an industry, Myanmar would be among the world’s market leaders. And of all its products the Rohingya would be one of the most lucrative. A niche but growing market of...
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The Arab Spring popular uprisings – myth and reality
It is critical to recognize the significance of this revolutionary chapter in the modern history of the Middle East and the creative conceptions and articulations of resistance that shattered the...
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The Clegg-Farage debate
If Nick Clegg takes one lesson from the first debate into the BBC second leg next week, it should be to spend less time on 'what the real facts show', if he does want to do more than mobilise existing...
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The drone evasion
A parliamentary report on the UK's use of armed-drones in Afghanistan is, in its language and its attitude to casualties, a study in closure.An official study of the use and impact of armed-drones...
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Out of the Guantanamo frying pan into the Russian fire
While Russia steps up calls for the US to close the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, its own abuse and mistreatment of Russian nationals who returned to the country from Guantánamo a decade ago is less well...
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Shock U-turn as sell-off of George Eliot hospital cancelled
The planned sell-off of George Elliott hospital has been cancelled, hailed as a victory for common sense by unions and campaigners.Image: Unite Controversial moves to offer the running of George...
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Britain and Bahrain: still allied against democracy and human rights
An interview with Maryam al-Khawaja, a leading Bahraini human rights activist, on the continuing protests in Bahrain, the regime’s continued repression and the UK’s involvement in the ongoing...
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Once I Entered a Garden: a foretaste of the 2014 OpenCityDocs documentary...
openDemocracy welcomes a new cooperation with OpenCityDocsFest, which is showing Avi Mograbi's latest film, Once I Entered a Garden (Nichnasti pa’am lagam) next Monday, in London's Clapham...
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India: jostling for geopolitical control in Afghanistan
Forecasts past the withdrawal of US and British forces in Afghanistan tend to prize fears of violence and instability spilling over into Pakistan, obscuring the country's vital importance to both India...
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The heavy imprint of America's 'light footprint'
New documents reveal the blinding pace of US military operations in Africa as the Pentagon prepares for future wars. The numbers tell the story: 10 exercises, 55 operations, 481 security cooperation...
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