Egypt: liberal hypocrisy no laughing matter
While both pro- and anti- Morsi supporters are united in their desire to see Egypt take an independent path, the political leaderships ostensibly representing the two sides clearly rely upon the...
View ArticleChallenging neoliberal population control
Racist and patriarchal ideas underpin the new ‘family planning’ initiatives promoted by DfID, USAID and the Gates Foundation which deny women in the global South real control over their bodies. The...
View ArticleSão Paulo: the city and its protest
While the recent protests in São Paulo are made up of a cross-section of Paulite society 'waking up' to social injustice, it is young people from the urban periphery, those which have 'never slept' who...
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This is what 21st century unionism should look like
The pooling of democratic funds should not be funnelled exclusively into any single party, particularly one so frequently hostile to worker's interests. Instead union funds should be dispersed to...
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Burn up not out; four suggested projects for UK activism
At the moment, there are few anti-capitalist social movements that have any real impact. Aaron Peters examines four structures that would aid their plight and boost the movement's political...
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‘Human Rights’ must join activists in social struggle
Stephen Hopgood wrote in ‘Emerging powers and human rights’ of the not always subtle distinction and looming abyss today between <a href=">what he calls ‘Human Rights’ and ‘human rights’. Our...
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Welcome to the Ministry of Social Transformation
Looking for alternatives to “the denial-laden pseudo-optimistic think-happy-thoughts crap that so often passes for spirituality in numb, consumerist America?” Check out the work of the Protest...
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Ignoring the facts: Fear and lawmaking in the UK
Defying her own experts, the UK Home Secretary has decided to use an evidently failed method to fight problems that don’t exist because she’s afraid of what she can’t see because it isn’t there. What...
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The scapegoats of Empire: racism and resistance in the city of romance
As the citizens of Venice propagate myths about the city’s expanding 'oriental' workforce they humiliate members of their own community and allow the island’s true invaders to escape justice....
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Spying, Bulgaria and the long road to Ithaka - weekly comments roundup
A look at this week's best reader comments on our Can Europe make it? debate. We begin with an important article by Ben Hayes on the timidity and hypocrisy in the EU’s response to the NSA spying...
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Brazil too ‘traditional’ to be a global human rights leader
The author responds to Camilo Asano’s prediction in ‘Emerging powers and human rights’ of the considerable potential for Brazil to contribute positively to a global human rights agenda. A lot will have...
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Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
At the end of June Prince Michael of Kent attended a retro aircraft festival organized by The Air Squadron in Ukraine. The Russian press always followed such events with adulation, but this event was...
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Mr. Erdoğan, give me back my sons
On top of those arrested in the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, in the last three years alone, an estimated 10,000 political and non-political activists have been arrested on alleged PKK links.Mothers...
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What changes would you like to see to the look of openDemocracy?
We've recently made some changes to the layout of the site but we haven't finished yet! Let us know how you think the design of openDemocracy could be improved.As you (hopefully) noticed last week,...
View ArticleWhen companies charge the taxpayer for monitoring the dead
G4S & Serco fraud inquiry: Five things the British public need to know about privatising criminal justice.It was a shocking announcement. Chris Grayling, looking more rattled than at any other time...
View ArticleYorkshire community defends kidney-transplant patient from deportation and death
The UK immigration authorities have hounded an ill woman for years. They claim she is a health tourist. Her doctors confirm that she is not. On Thursday Roseline Akhalu yet again faces her accusers in...
View ArticleBack to the future for ‘human security’
In glossing over the freedom from fear aspect of its original articulation and placing it firmly within an individual nation state framework, this will be a disappointment to many.The United Nations is...
View ArticleA global security initiative
Muslims using computers in Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan are not the only ones to fall under the gaze of US surveillance. Since 9/11, American Muslims have been disproportionately targeted compared to...
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Sunday Comics: Die
As six heads of state try and dominate chance in a darkened room, our Sunday Comics columnist takes us on a journey through the gambling culture of New Orleans, introducing us to the characters who...
View ArticleThe rules of secret justice in Britain
To deploy 'Secret Justice' in the UK the government has to table the rules that will deliver its legislation. It is rushing them through the House of Commons and has announced they will be debated and...
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