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Time does not always heal: state violence and psychic damage
My partner Alfie Meadows was nearly killed when a police officer hit his head with a truncheon at a demo. After Alfie was charged with 'violent disorder', I was so viscerally angry I stopped being able...
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Knitted Together: Crafting a culture of welcome for refugee women
A group of women in the UK have created a piece of art to challenge the detention of refugee women. Craft can be a powerful and cross-cultural means to challenge segregation with solidarity, says...
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Simmering tensions: Behind the facade of Amman
Jordan appears to have been relatively unaffected by the upheavals of the Arab uprisings, but growing resentment at nepotism, pandemic corruption, and economic deprivation lies just beneath the surface...
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From Strongman to Superman: Sisi the saviour of Egypt
Egypt’s current political scene is marked by ’Sisi-mania’, as the new leader’s supporters scramble to snap up the latest items of Sisi-branded consumer kitsch. A gendered reading of this ‘patriotic...
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Women's power to stop war: Hubris or hope?
In the first of a series of articles marking the hundredth year of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Cynthia Cockburn explores the roots of the women's peace movement and its aim...
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The shifting balance of identity politics after the Syrian uprising
An account of the drastic identity and narrative shifts during the Syrian uprising. The author focuses on the discourse of the Syrian regime, as well as those of anti- and pro-Assad Syrians. 'Syria is...
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Autodefensas: the solution to Mexico's drug problem?
Illegal drug trafficking is deeply embedded in Mexico. Collusion between the state and ‘self-defence’ groups is not, however, the answer to it.Easy to romanticise: autodefensas in Michoacan. Flickr /...
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Yemen in the frame, again
The toll of violence in Yemen continues unabated—if largely unreported. And unless the international community engages with its causes and the local parties, so it will remain.Recent drone strikes and...
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The Kremlin’s marriage of convenience with the European far right
Putin’s strong-arm tactics in Eastern Ukraine and ‘moral, family-based’ policies have won him ardent support from far-right European groups. But they should not be under any illusions...For its massive...
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Fourteen questions for Simon Stevens
The new head of the NHS, Simon Stevens, appears before the Health Select Committee today. Here are fourteen questions OurNHS hopes MPs will ask him.Do you agree that the evidence shows progressive...
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After the flood
In Russian Krymsk and Krym (Crimea) sound quite similar. They also share double standards – as some residents of the Kuban region have discovered. The circumstances under which Crimea became part of...
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Celebrating the Polish way
What is the place of far right and nationalist parties in Poland? Do they stand a chance at the upcoming European elections? What is their future?We celebrate Independence Day (11/11) in different...
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What's left when you are (far) right in Bulgaria?
The far-right nationalist party Ataka kick-started their European elections campaign in Moscow this week. What is the special relationship between the far-right and Russia in Bulgaria?Politics has been...
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Who are you calling a Nazi?
Why do extremist parties manage to draw wide support in times of uncertainty? A look into one of the most successful far right parties in Europe - the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).The rise of the...
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Passing the torch
openDemocracy's Editor-in-Chief is stepping down this summer to pursue new challenges. Here he writes about his two years at the helm of oD. Melancholy seeps in as I'm typing these words: at the end of...
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Euro elections 2014: You Tell Us bloggers discuss the far right in Europe...
Our young bloggers from across the EU discuss the rise of the far right in Europe. Part one here.What's left when you are (far) right in Bulgaria?Which way is 'right'?We have to complete Europe. We...
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Euro elections 2014: You Tell Us bloggers discuss the far right in Europe...
Our young bloggers from across the EU discuss the rise of the far right in Europe. Part two here.Who are you calling a Nazi?Celebrating the Polish wayCroatia's flammabilityHow the rise of the front...
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Why anti-consumerism is not enough
Rejecting population growth as a valid topic for environmental concern relies on the assumption that the world's poor will stay in their current state of poverty, while simultaneously insisting that...
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South Sudan: ending the bloodletting
The international community has a responsibility to end the bloodletting in South Sudan. And neither of its factional leaders, with blood on their hands, can be part of its future.The human cost: South...
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David Cameron praises 'Health Heroes' while he destroys the NHS
In a Daily Mail campaign the Prime Minister deploys his personal tragedy and patronises health care workers as 'angels in aprons'. Misleading rhetoric provides cover for Cameron's legislative...
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