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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleEuro 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The politicization of Hindu faith in India
Hinduism preaches tolerance, the Indian Constitution enshrines plurality. So why has divisive political communalism become acceptable, even electable, when disguised as economic growth? Responding to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The struggle to defend La Famantina is forever: how social movements in...
In La Rioja, Cordoba, Corrientes and elsewhere, activists are defending what they hold in common. In the process, they are also transforming their relationships with one another.Activists defending La...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Unmasked: The city institutions given privileged status in the controversial...
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveal who benefited from the undervaluing of the Royal Mail.wikimediaIn a City career spanning more than 50 years, it takes something quite exceptional to shock...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Corporate hegemony and the Keystone Pipeline
Environmental management consistently projects an image that the risks of climate change can be managed and the extraction of dirty energy resources should continue. The oil industry has corrupted the...
View ArticleHow the US created the Afghan war - and lost it
The unreported story of how the Haqqani network became America's greatest enemy.It was a typical Kabul morning. Malik Ashgar Square was already bumper-to-bumper with Corolla taxis, green police jeeps,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Starting at the top: why rights groups need to engage religious leaders
For human rights to find resonance in the global South, we must connect them to the existing beliefs of the people by engaging religious leaders. Without this cultural resonance, the human movement is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yes - the radical case for independence: introduction
Here, we publish the introduction to the new book "Yes - the radical case for Scottish independence".In 2007, Holyrood’s Labour executive trailed Alex Salmond’s SNP in the polls, and Tony Blair,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The “equality economy”: tackling labour-market insecurity in Europe
While since “9/11” a militarised conception of security has dominated the world, the global economic crisis has seen insecurity in the labour market mushroom. Marking international workers' day, could...
View ArticleClik here to view.
40 reasons to support Scottish independence: 12, 13, 14: the coming British...
Remaining in the union doesn't mean a stable future, it means shackling Scotland to an economy that's heading rapidly towards the edge of a cliff: Reasons 12, 13 and 14 to support Scottish...
View ArticleThe global crisis: seeing it whole
If important new studies of social and economic failure can be fused with awareness of environmental and security trends, the chances of progress will be multiplied.There have been many books published...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The divided house of anti-Europe
Right-wing Eurosceptic parties will have more MEPs than ever before in the next European Parliament. But this doesn't mean they will be able to form a united Eurosceptic front.A summit of Eurosceptic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Adams: peacemaker or paramilitary?
The arrest of the decades-long leader of the “republican movement” in Northern Ireland, Gerry Adams, has provoked international surprise. It shouldn’t—but it does provide a lesson in the perils of...
View ArticleOutside the jobcentre: talking with jobseekers
Interviews with unemployed and underemployed people reveal the exacting impact of dealing with jobcentres and workfare programmes. The UK government's new 'Help to Work' scheme, with daily jobcentre...
View ArticleA tribute to legendary Sudanese poet Mahjoub Sharif (1948-2014): a story of...
As an influential character in Sudanese history, Mahjoub found his way to people’s hearts by making his poetry part of everyone’s daily life and rhythm. In memoriam.Memories from my undergraduate...
View Article