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If the union is to survive: Jonathan Edwards' speech on devolution
The Houses of Parliament discussed the aftermath of the Scottish referendum this week. This is the speech Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards planned to make, had he been called. He calls for radical and...
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Palermo is a laboratory for the precariat
We meet the young people drawn to the Sicilian capital by its anarchic appeal and opportunities for a new politics.Palermo. Photo by Acido Nucleico.Palermo is a frontier city caught between South Italy...
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Two years after Leveson, why is the UK government’s media dealings still...
They talk of 'transparency' but the reality is still a quiet word behind closed doors, shut off from public scrutiny. Westminster and Whitehall have no intention of letting the public know what...
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Ignorance and misunderstanding undermine current anti-trafficking...
Anti-trafficking efforts will fail as long as states and citizens continue to frame the victims of trafficking as criminals and security threats. Only a comprehensive and coordinated approach will...
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Scottish independence: what would Alan Peacock have said?
The leading Scottish economist stood up to Thatcher over advertising on the BBC, but died a month before the referendum. What would he have thought?Alan Peacock In an historic vote, Scotland has...
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Calm down, dear, it’s only a ‘trade deal’
European Commissioners and politicians reassure us about 'trade deals' don't convince - the secretive deals threaten our consumer and labour rights and our public services, including the NHS.Image:...
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India’s subaltern border citizen
Could Delhi be solving the wrong problem? What it chooses to define as a law and order problem is essentially a governance crisis of severe proportions and one that the Indian state is not yet willing...
View ArticleStop TTIP - Occupy Democracy - 17th - 26th October
Nick Dearden of the World Development Movement explains in stark terms what 'trade treaties' like TTIP really do. TTIP will be one area of discussion at Occupy Democracy's time limited occupation of...
View ArticleIsrael’s dual approach to Gaza and the West Bank: an overview
The areas now known as the West Bank and Gaza, despite geographic differences, were once similar in social, cultural and economic terms. But through a long process of one occupation after another, they...
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Drone strikes in Pakistan: laser or blunderbuss?
Attacks by US drones have often been presented as forensic, yet only one in 25 victims in Pakistan were identifiably associated with al-Qaeda.On target? Civilian casualties of drone attacks in Pakistan...
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The entitlement delusion
Within the corpus of international human rights law there presently exists no explicit recognition of a right to freedom from corruption. How can we make corruption more than a mere crime?Portrait of...
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Ocean grabbing: a new wave of twenty first century enclosures
Not only are the small-scale fisher communities best placed to ensure food sovereignty, but they are also the starting point for any serious transition towards an ecologically and socially just food...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland: a transformative strategy for women, peace and security
Moving beyond the paralysing difference of opinion about whether the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland constituted an armed conflict, women peacebuilders have produced a strategic guide which places...
View ArticleTough times for progressives in Israel
The state of right and left politics in Israel during the latest conflict in Gaza, Hamas’ evolution, the BDS movement and weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Interview.Charalampos...
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‘Sharification by stealth’ in the UK
Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Pragna Patel argues that minority women are being denied the right to participate in the wider...
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Ethiopia’s alleged terrorists: vocal bloggers and independent journalists
In attempting to minimize the risks attendant to human rights work in an authoritarian setting, Ethiopian NGOs have been hesitant to support young activists who face government persecution. Iain Levine...
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Black women are often sidelined by politics – but we have a lot to teach...
Black women suffer hugely from austerity, yet are too often sidelined by both labour and feminist movements. If these movements are to succeed, they have to listen, and learn.Image:...
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Development and human rights – a plea for a more critical embrace
The human rights framework provides an inadequate tool for understanding the deeper processes of development, and its uncritical embrace risks imposing a legal and bureaucratic rationality that will...
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Dale Farm: an eviction anniversary
While at Dale Farm, I consider myself to have witnessed an incidence of ethnic cleansing. Basildon Council argued the site was built on green belt land. In reality, it was a former scrap yard.A caravan...
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Yevtushenkov is no Khodorkovsky
One of Russia’s richest men, the owner of an oil company, has been arrested. There have been inevitable comparisons to Mikhail Khodorkovsky.One of Russia’s richest men, the owner of an oil company, has...
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