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Kilburn Manifesto: The economy - changing the terms of debate
It is neither austerity nor its preceding crash which is sucking the life from Britain's economy, it is the failure of democracy that sees the economy geared solely towards wealthy interests. We must...
View ArticleA do and don’t do list for the new High Commissioner
A new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has just been appointed - Prince Zeid, Jordan’s UN Ambassador in New York. He will need to move quickly to improve the visibility and viability of the...
View ArticleA common vision: The abolition of militarism
"If our common dream is a world without weapons and militarism, why don’t we say so? Why be silent about it? It would make a world of difference if we refused to be ambivalent about the violence of...
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Remembering Glasgow's Mackintosh building
As Glasgow School of Art assesses the damage after a fire severely damaged the Mackintosh Building library, artist and writer Elizabeth Grant reflects on the significance of the building and the...
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Podemos, or how the European elections helped trigger the early exit of a king
The extraordinary electoral success of Podemos, given its short trajectory, has had the greatest repercussion because it threatens the electoral strategies of almost all mayor players in SpainPodemos...
View ArticleDislike the new government? Attack the female minister
Misogyny permeates the political and cultural landscape in India, from the violence on the streets, to the ‘rape jokes’ in journalism offices, to the way in which female politicians are subject to...
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Singing for sex, and other political anomalies
Our Sunday Comics columnist learns some human and political lessons from the frogfish and toadfish of FloridaExactly a year ago today, sitting on a beach on the Florida panhandle, I wrote an article...
View ArticleThe rogue general and the migrant ‘massacre’ on the Mediterranean
Pressure on Europe as asylum-seekers in Libya risk everything to reach safety in Italy while the EU looks the other way.In the migrant ghetto of Abu Salim in Tripoli, Libya, a group of about 80...
View ArticleSexual violence, access to justice, and human rights
The patriarchal framework of justice which reflects gendered stereotypes, cultural and traditional prejudice has to change. Whilst there is slow progress in implementation, international law is...
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The uncertainty of no; new national stories (40 reasons to support Scottish...
A no vote brings with it constitutional wranglings in which, right now, Westminster is accentuating the positives and hiding the negatives under the carpet; while a yes vote brings Scots the chance to...
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This week's window on the Middle East - June 9, 2014
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Syrian conflict transforms security regulations in Jordan.Syrian...
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I'm a woman, but I'm glad I used to be a man
I was the kind of trans* person who, upon coming out, sought to destroy all references to my male social and legal identity in the most ruthless manner. Part of Transformation's liberation series.It is...
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Live from Lampedusa: The Freedom of Movement
Nicholas De Genova introduces The Charter of Lampedusa.Illustration by HareguFor several years now, the European Union has converted the Mediterranean Sea into a mass grave. Untold thousands of...
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Ukraine's blackmail system
In Ukraine, businessmen are pressured to give financial and political support to the authorities or to testify against political opponents. It could be argued that for Petro Poroshenko, elected...
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The tragedy of education in rural Romania
Rural education in Romania is in a dismal state, lagging far behind its urban counterpart, and having among the worst standards in the European Union.A class in a Romanian high school. Flickr. Some...
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Symbolism of the Donetsk People’s Republic
A new republic, even one – especially one – as uncertain in status as the Donetsk People’s Republic, needs all the trappings of power. But what do they mean?After months of reportage from Eastern...
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Making it flow, somehow
This is not a film about the Egyptian revolution. This is a film about Cairo - and traffic.Cairo in Arabic, Al-Qahira, means – among other things – ‘the victorious’. The days of (at least direct)...
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Alexander Theodore Shulgin (1925-2014)
Legendary chemist, psychedelic adventurer and author passed away June 2nd. Known to family and friends as “Sasha”, Alexander Theodore Shulgin was born on June 17, 1925 in Berkeley, California. His...
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Bosnia: the “lost generation”
The international media can cast an unflinching spotlight on wars but when the war is over the spotlight is suddenly switched off—would that it were that simple for those, including children, left...
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What's liberation got to do with it?
Veteran activist Urvashi Vaid on being a utopian in the 1970s, and how gay rights prevailed over liberation politics. Part of Transformation's liberation series.Lesbians free everyone, 1995. Credit:...
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