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Syria is our business too: why Europe must take the lead on efforts to end...
Simply waiting until the fight is over looks like a realpolitik option, but it is a recipe to push Syria only further into disaster. The stalemate can last for years. Europe must act now – to prevent a...
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Off the Menu: Guantánamo Bay Hunger Strike
The majority of the remaining 166 prisoners at Guantanamo have been on hunger strike since early February, mostly held without charge or trial, yet there has been a continued media silence on the...
View ArticleCommonwealth Charter is a fig leaf that will change little for LGBT people
Despite the impression left by some of the UK media, the Queen has not signed a charter ensuring gay rights across the Commonwealth. “Queen to sign new charter backing gay rights” wrote the Telegraph...
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Thank you to all of you for helping us reach £250,000 - openDemocracy will stay open! We did it!It´s great news: openDemocracy broke through our £250,000 target a few days before the deadline of March...
View ArticleThe Syrian irony for Turkey
Before the uprising, Erdoğan and Davutoğlu tried to turn Damascus and Aleppo into safe market havens. Perhaps Turkey still expects eventually to have the lion's share in a future reconstructed Syria,...
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Will the new Syria be any better than what the new Palestine proved to be? Annalena di Giovanni responds to the conversation between Fawaz Gerges, Rosemary Hollis and Robin Yassin-Kassab. It is...
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Talking point: Is culture the new politics in Russia?
How far has culture become the new politics in Russia and how does it compare to earlier periods in the country's history? Introducing a new week-long CEELBAS debate on oDRussia, Artemy Troitsky, Peter...
View ArticleWhy we need a political campaign to reinstate the NHS in England
This extract is from the forthcoming publication on the future of the national health service for the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class)(This article originally appeared at Left Foot Forward,...
View ArticleA war against women: The CSW declaration and the Muslim Brotherhood riposte
The statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in response to the UN Commission on the Status of Women draft Agreed Conclusions on violence against women, is nothing short of an assault on their most...
View ArticleWorkfare and the state of exception
The retrospective legalisation of workfare has deprived rightful claimants of £130 million. Alongside the lives wrecked in its wake, the ‘emergency’ legislation has exposed a chasm at the heart of...
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Banderlogs and network hamsters: the language of political protest in Russia
The role of the social networks in the organisation of recent political protest in Russia has been well documented. But the nature of revolution is changing, affecting language, literature and the...
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Laying siege to the villages: lessons from Shenzhen
In this 4-part series, Mary Ann O'Donnell explores the social antagonisms that have emerged through Shenzhen's informal urbanization of villages. Each article features a corresponding photo-walk. Next:...
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Laying siege to the villages: the Nantou peninsula
In this 4-part series, Mary Ann O'Donnell explores the social antagonisms that have emerged through Shenzhen's informal urbanization of villages. Next:Neoliberalizing the bamboo curtainThe built...
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Laying siege to the villages: neoliberalizing the bamboo curtain
In this 4-part series, Mary Ann O'Donnell explores the social antagonisms that have emerged through Shenzhen's informal urbanization of villages. Next: Informal urbanization in the outer districtsTwo...
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Laying siege to the villages: informal urbanization in the outer districts
In this 4-part series, Mary Ann O'Donnell explores the social antagonisms that have emerged through Shenzhen's informal urbanization of villages. Next: Neighbourhoods for the working poorShenzhen...
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Laying siege to the villages: Baishizhou neighbourhoods for the working poor
In this 4-part series, Mary Ann O'Donnell explores the social antagonisms that have emerged through Shenzhen's informal urbanization of villages.As of 2013, Baishizhou was the largest of the so-called...
View ArticleAnti-semitism, Israel and nationalism, part 1/3
Antony Lerman in conversation with Tony Curzon Price around Lerman's political memoir, The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist - A personal and political journey. Part 1, 37 mins.A nationalist development...
View ArticleThe complications of dispersing aid in Syria
Aid is ultimately dictated by the host government’s willingness to grant international access to a country. Martin Armstrong speaks to those who are trying to cope.Sitting in a modest, third floor...
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Freedom and meaningful work: an exploration
Many of us have resigned ourselves to domination in the workplace. This is an outrage. 'Meaningful work' is not only an achievable goal for all, a socialised mutual economy is beginning to emerge that...
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Syria is our business too: why Europe must take the lead on efforts to end...
Simply waiting until the fight is over looks like a realpolitik option, but it is a recipe to push Syria only further into disaster. The stalemate can last for years. Europe must act now – to prevent a...
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