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EU centralisation-without-representation: a reply to Frances Coppola, Simon...
Europeans are against ‘more Europe', because they are against the particular type of authoritarian, anti-democratic political union on offer. It would not after all, be the first time in history that a...
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Squatting in the path of the housing crisis: global capitalism coming home
As homelessness soars in South East England, a vast warehouse sits empty in central Oxford - until local tenants squat it, to organise a conference on the UK's housing crisis...At 2:15am, my alarm...
View Article"Rwanda: The Untold Story": questions for the BBC
A deeply flawed BBC documentary on Rwanda's genocide raises serious questions over the corporation's ethics and standards."There is no reasonable basis for anyone to dispute that, during 1994, there...
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H2: the experience of a generation
Palestinians whose houses are on the a-Shahuda are prevented from leaving home by their front doors and must exit by climbing through their roofs and down the back of the building. There was a time...
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Whatever happened to (Euro) Maidan
For almost a year, Ukraine has refused to leave the international headlines. But little attention has been paid to what has been happening in Kyiv.For almost a year, Ukraine has refused to leave the...
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The once and future EU recovery
The instigators of these anti-social and anti-democratic policies, rules and treaties defend them as the mechanisms to bring recovery, end fiscal deficits and reduce public indebtedness. Were they...
View ArticleTurkey’s ISIS crisis
PKK has been fighting ferociously against ISIS from day one and is in need of arms and weapons. But it has long since been declared a terrorist organization by many including Turkey, the US, EU and...
View ArticleTurkey’s quagmire since the Arab Spring
Just last week Erdogan once again ruffled some feathers with his polemical outburst at the UN General Assembly, questioning the legitimacy of Sisi’s rule.Turkey has been pivotal in determining both the...
View ArticleViolence in Hong Kong: the translated evidence
Hong Kong Democracy Now is a voluntary working group translating videos and articles to support international media coverage of Hong Kong’s civil disobedience movement. They are maintaining an updated...
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Preaching for human rights
Human rights advocates must take their message to street corners, like preachers, and teach the people love for everyone, irrespective of race, tribe and sexual orientation. FrançaisAgnes Kyomugisha, a...
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Immigration detention in the media: anarchy and ambivalence
Alongside calls for the reduction or ending of immigration detention, we must demand more balanced coverage from our media. Melanie Griffiths reports on two decades of ‘riots’ and fires inside...
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New law proposed to "stop the NHS becoming simply a memory"
The "NHS Bill 2015" campaign is calling on all General Election candidates to sign up to the new "NHS Reinstatement Bill", and is already attracting cross-party support.Image: Professor Allyson Pollock...
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Five bloody days in North Ossetia
For the Ingush and Ossetians, memories from an overlooked conflict continue to simmer… I am Ingush – and I still do not fully understand why my mother always minds me going to Vladikavkaz, or why my...
View ArticleLocalism Watch resources, Sept 2014
Resources for Localism Watch, September, 2014OPINIONSWestminster City Council Chief Executive Charlie Parker argues that central government should show greater confidence in councils’ ability to run...
View ArticleLocalism Watch Resources – October 2014
Localism Watch resources, October 2014 - including the afetmath of the indyref...A trawl of the latest online news, comment, advice and informationThe Bigger Picture“We are seeing a return to...
View ArticleBrazil's election surprise
An unexpected result in the first round leaves the presidential election open. It also hints at Brazil's underlying political dynamics. Brazil's presidential election campaign, already marked by...
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Interview with imprisoned Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab
During his visit to Ireland in late August, Rajab spoke with Malachy Browne about his experience in a Bahraini prison, the failure of western media and governments to support human rights in the Gulf,...
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Scotland: a big push for Basque sovereignty supporters
Despite the referendum result, Basque nationalists still see Scotland as an inspiration for their own national struggle for self-determination.Basques march to protest to the Spanish government's...
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After the Scottish referendum: Corsican contagion?
In the wake of the Scottish vote, Corsicans are trying to gain publicity for their own, often neglected, struggle for self-determination. Could we soon see an independence referendum on this small,...
View ArticleThe once and future Syria
A negotiated peace may be Syria’s only salvation from imminent demise, but internal complexities and strategically incoherent external responses mean it will not be forthcoming.Everything crazy about...
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