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Firefighting for democracy in Ukraine
Recent US and EU demonstrations of support for democracy in Ukraine are eloquent proof of how political short-term goals keep overriding the need for long-term strategic thinking.The crisis in Ukraine...
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Why Ukraine is still not (yet) Russia
Most observers thought that any threat to the Sochi Olympics would come from disarray to the east and the south, in the fractious Caucasus. But, as it happened, strife came calling from the West.The...
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The constituent assembly of the commons (CAC)
This bottom-up lawmaking project is an opportunity for us to reflect on the role the law can play as a strategy of struggle and resistance against the neoliberal policies of commodification and...
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Social room: making a more civil society
The US school shooters weren't just pathological murderers, they were responding to suffocating beliefs about masculinity. The 'sea of pink', Nelson Mandela and the AIDS memorial quilt show that to...
View ArticleA new (order) Ukraine? Assessing the relevance of Ukraine’s far right in an...
Now that the EU is ready to embrace the new Ukrainian government, investing at least one billion euros in the ‘revolutionized’ country, it is time to reinvestigate the question of far right influence...
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We must protect NHS democracy
As the Green Party Spring Conference kicks off in Liverpool today, Caroline Lucas MP writes exclusively for OurNHS about the threats to NHS democracy in England.Image: Green PartyThe Coalition told us...
View ArticleAn Armenian perspective on Khojali
Many civilians were killed in the war between the newly independent states of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. The period remains surrounded by dispute and forgetting. But it also raises...
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NHS boss apologises for tweeting Hitler parody
The care.data debacle - the cracks are showing at the top....It had to happen - the caredata debacle and the reaction of NHS IT boss Tim Kelsey, has been immortalised in a classic "Downfall" parody by...
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Two bob each way on democracy: book review
The author of The Life and Death of Democracy reviews The Confidence Trap: A history of democracy in crisis from World War 1 to the present by David Runciman (Princeton, 2013).With talk of democracy in...
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TV Rain - the wrong question
A row over a viewer opinion poll has effectively silenced TV Rain, Russia’s most independent TV channel. A pity they asked the wrong question.At first glance the significance of the regime’s attack on...
View ArticleKleptocracy: final stage of Soviet-style socialism
The tumult in Ukraine marks a wider crisis of the corrupt post-Soviet model. The impact will be felt most acutely in Russia itself, says Krzysztof Bobinski.Viktor Yanukovych’s fall in Ukraine marks the...
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Welcome to the age of resistance
I plead guilty to the indictment of avowed optimism. We have entered an age of resistance for which we must build an analytics. New forms, strategies and subjects of resistance and insurrection appear...
View ArticleIsrael passes legislation to reclassify its Christian citizens as ‘non-Arab’
A new Israeli law creating a legal distinction between Arabs of Christian and Muslim descent passes in the Knesset. Basing the categorisation and status of citizenship on religious and ethnic...
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Populist snapshots: this week’s exchange in the European Parliament
An excerpt from the debate on discriminatory internet sites and government reactions (March 13, 2012, Strasbourg), followed by commentary on the political language.This article looks at the rhetoric of...
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Polish parliament - guarding human rights?
The decision by the Polish parliament to set up a subcommittee for the implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments is a positive step for both the country and for Europe.The Polish...
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Reuniting the monetary union: a proposal to counter the eurozone’s imbalances
Persistent trade imbalances are threatening to derail the European economy. Luca Fantacci calls for a European Clearing Union to promote a sustainable pattern of production and consumption across the...
View ArticleHow co-operatives can help Generation Y take control over their future
Co-operatives can give a generation of graduates the chance to reclaim their future.One year ago I graduated university and found myself in a fundamentally unjust and unsustainable economy that in my...
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The modern return of Vagrancy Law
The crime of 'being suspicious' seems to be making a return as the state seems ever more keen to police the poor and vulnerable. The recent case of 'stolen food' from Iceland is a perfect...
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Kenyan rights groups under fire: Are officials abusing the “Beijing Consensus”?
Kenyan officials under International Criminal Court indictment seek caps for foreign funding to local NGOs, rasing the spectre of a “Beijing Consesus” for African civil society. A contribution to the...
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How I stopped watching porn for one year and why I'm not going back
I remember when I first discovered internet porn – I was 17 years old. Fascinated by this world of unleashed sexual expression and fantasy, I couldn’t get enough of it. I thought I'd outgrow my porn...
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