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Russia: farewell to 'national unity', Andrey Makarychev
Vladimir Putin may have won Sunday’s presidential election, but his new term is unlikely to be an easy one. Russia has changed: the middle classes surf the Internet, compare themselves not to their...
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The $100 bn Facebook question: will capitalism survive ‘value abundance’?,...
Open-source software, shared innovation and crowd-sourced manufacturing threaten capitalism as we know it. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Does Facebook exploit its users? And where is the $100bn in the...
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Written for the Late, Lamented Occupied London, Todd Gitlin
An American celebrates the achievement of the Occupy movement in a 'farewell but let's meet again soon' letter sent across the Atlantic to Occupy London. The occupations were brilliant. They created...
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Austerity with democracy is possible, Markha Valenta
So why are we in Europe going down the path of a deeply self-deceptive and hypocritical race to the bottom, where trans-European solidarity is a non-starter, since it can only be a barrier to a...
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Averting all-out civil war in Syria, Franco Galdini
International diplomacy should declare its unequivocal support for the peaceful protesters and the deluge of peaceful demonstrations still flooding the streets of many Syrian cities, thus pushing for...
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Tunisia: free speech double standards, Amna Guellali
In Tunisia, the flag of freedom of expression has often been waved when politically convenient and forgotten when it isn’t. Freedom of expression has become a battleground in post-revolution Tunisia....
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The feminisation of poverty and the myth of the 'welfare queen', Kate Donald
Governments are constructing social policy based on misrepresentations and stereotypes about poor people and welfare claimants, rather than by reference to the structural inequalities that affect...
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Forget the ‘golden age’ of capitalism: there’s no return, and our future can...
Talk on the British left of a return to a Keynesian, pre-monetarist system is historically untenable. Aaron Peters argues that the solution to the current crisis resides not in statist capitalism but...
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Being secure in the space of occupation: notes from a student-led experiment...
Security is nothing if not the radical equality experienced when acting in concert. But even in spaces created through collective action, producing security in the commons requires positive action....
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Police, magistrates and prisons by G4S. Is this what the British people...
Police privatisation is one part of a bigger story in the UK. With precious little public scrutiny the world’s largest security company has gained astonishing influence over our government and our...
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An election, or a declaration of war?, Tikhon Dzyadko
Amid growing proof of ‘dirty tricks’ during Sunday’s presidential election, the new Russian government has made it clear that the opposition can expect no concessions. Protesters at rallies in Moscow...
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Religion and coming to terms with soldiering in the Israel Defense Forces...
Judaism is crucial for how IDF soldiers comprehend their role as soldiers and share their experience, as well as providing them with the worldview that locates their role as individual soldiers within...
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Partners in need: Turkey, the European Union and the United States face the...
The Arab spring has cast Turkey back into the western fold and away from alternative alliance patterns which seemed to be in the pipeline only a few years ago. Turkey won't act in Syria without its...
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Moral principles, the ‘Leftists’, and the Syrian Revolution, Odai Al-Zoubi
Criticizing the uprising, in itself, is not immoral. But what is immoral, is to criticize the uprising without declaring their solidarity with the Syrian people. Every week, we read articles, from the...
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Faith: know thy place, Rahila Gupta
The feminist critique of religion should not appease the strident voices which label secularism as fundamentalist or militant by promoting a secularism that has had its teeth drawn. Feminists must...
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The danger of inaccurate information in conflict reporting, Pawel Wargan
Before we stop to think, we share. We don’t think about what it means to re-Tweet a news article. Are we claiming ownership of the information contained in it? In increasing public exposure to this...
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Mexico’s war on drugs: can you expect the military to function as police?,...
A side-effect of the war on drugs launched by President Calderon was to involve the army in carrying out police operations against gangs. However, this blurring of lines between both security...
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Narrating the Arab spring from within, Hoda Elsadda
What are the evolving narratives of the Arab Spring? Hoda Elsadda reports from a conference in Cairo examining the conflicting narratives of and about the Arab revolutions, and the geopolitics of...
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Contraception: the new American soap opera, Ruth Rosen
The war over contraception in America during the last bizarre month was never about religious freedom or women’s health care. It was about controlling women’s right to control their own bodies and to...
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The weapon of truth: an independent observer’s view of a non-election, Julia...
The debacle of last December's rigged parliamentary elections convinced many people who had previously been politically unaware to sign up and train as election observers. Sunday’s election saw ten...
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