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Racism has just taken on different forms
Despite all of the claims of enthusiasm for multiculturalism, there is still an expectation that one culture will dominate others in western countries.French pupils protest against the school turban...
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The Myanmar context
For the first time since independence, government forces and most Ethnic Armed Groups have stopped fighting. This is an historic achievement in peace-making. However, the ceasefire process has yet to...
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It’s time to put money out of its misery
Money talks, but what language is it speaking? New ideas and experiments could reposition money as a source of social justice as well as personal fulfillment. This is the final article in our series on...
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This is Britain: TV celebrities meet people who can't afford to eat
As banks, energy companies and loan sharks feed off the poor, TV celebrities try to find out what poverty means in a BBC documentary series for Sport Relief.Rachel Johnson, Theo Paphitis, Jamie Laing...
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The last camping ground
Russia’s oil goliaths have been devastating vast areas of natural landscape, and indigenous people’s lives, in their rush to extract the black gold that lies beneath. But a family of reindeer herders...
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Big Brother is cashing in on you
The internet’s cookie monsters are harvesting your secrets. A £90bn industry is going unregulated and unchecked, gathering seemingly unrelated information for trade and profit. ‘On the internet, nobody...
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Kashgar's redevelopment is about more than anti-Uyghur sentiment
While the CCP’s motives for redeveloping Xinjiang's capital are manifold, what seems to be provoking the most anger among residents, is the near total absence of Uyghur presence in decision-making....
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Ukraine and Eurasia's imperial fault-lines
The current conflict has been brewing for a long time and is the result of two asymmetrical imperialisms: Russia's outdated, and rather formal, imperialism, on the one hand, and the west's smart,...
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Still searching for justice: victims in Sri Lanka
Five years on from the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka, the international community’s patience with the government in investigating gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law...
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Striking behaviour: Chinese workers discover a weapon against labour-market...
In theory, workers in China are promised security through official trade union representation and the rule of the Communist Party. In practice, confronted with the endless churning of a globalised...
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Taiwan’s students are resisting a Hong Kong-style future
Hong Kong has long been seen as the testing ground for peaceful absorption of a democratic territory into the People’s Republic of China.Student-led protesters in Taipei yesterday stormed the Executive...
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Anbar – thorn in Maliki’s side
Anbar province has emerged as the fulcrum of a rising Sunni resistance against Iraq’s Shi’a controlled government and it could have a major impact on the formation of the next government.The ongoing...
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Obama and Iraq: the myth of abandonment
John McCain and others continue to blame the escalation of tension and sectarian violence in Iraq on Obama’s 'abandonment' of the country in 2011, but the foundations for the violence were laid years...
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La Serenissima
What Europe needs is a re-engagement of her citizens in the integration project: Europe needs to start making Europeans again.The citizens of the Italian region of Veneto voted overwhelmingly for...
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The Persian Gulf: implications of the Saudi-Qatari dispute
The Saudi strategy of offering military support to the US while exporting Muslim militancy and portraying itself as the protector of the two holiest sites in the Islamic world has backfired for both...
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Afghanistan 2014: political transition
As Afghanistan heads for presidential elections on April 5, the country is going through one of the most critical periods in its post-Taleban history: the transition (Inteqal). The term Inteqal is used...
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Venezuela: taking the counter- out of revolution
Venezuela is politically polarised and so is much of the coverage of it. But just as the violence is now kaleidoscopic the international response must become more complex.Fractured society, fractal...
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The Religion of the Future
How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us? A new book provides some...
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Organising today: stewarding and responding to ‘the people’
38 degrees aims to bring people together to take action on the issues that matter to them. As part of our series of interviews with practitioners, Participation Now researcher Nick Mahony talked to...
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Egypt: A Space That Isn't Our Own
Last month a young woman was mob attacked on Cairo University campus. Socially and culturally constructed circles that control our lives seem to be tightening at a time when individuals are trying...
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