PM Erdoğan’s inflammatory policies point to the pitfalls of majoritarian style democracy in Turkey.  

Waiting times in Accident and Emergency departments have reached a nine-year high, according to new research released today by the Kings Fund. In the first quarter of this year, nearly 6% of patients waited longer than the 4 hour maximum target. Chris Skidmore MP and Clare Gerada, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, went head to head on this morning’s Today programme to discuss Skidmore’s claim that immigration was partly to blame. The interviewer is Sarah Montague.

Julienne Lusenge spoke to Jennifer Allsopp at the Nobel Women's Initiative conference in Belfast about her work as a women's human rights defender in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

As men we have to recognize that our gender is more prone to violence and most sorts of crime. But does this mean we are unchangeably so? Personal experience, critical thinking and collective action can present a more optimistic picture, says Richard Johnson. 

In America and Ghana two men have recently faced the courts for abusing women patients and performing dangerous late-term abortions. These cases reveal the true impact of the lack of comprehensive reproductive health care, and accessible, legal, safe abortions.

The battle on tuition fees may have been won. But in order for Quebec’s student activists to develop and counter the new government’s ‘backdoor’ austerity, they must make use of the documented memory of student movements from around the world, including the British texts Fight Back! and Springtime.

The bedroom tax is not only socially destructive but, intentionally or otherwise, long term it is likely to have the effect of transferring large amounts of housing stock from taxpayers to banks.

One might note that the less represented the ‘popular’ classes are in political parties, in parliament or in government, the more ‘populism’ is branded a threat.

Turkey will not tolerate, let alone a Saudi-type sharia law, but even a much more 
palatable mildly Islamist neoliberal conservatism, which is, incidentally, a
 direct descendant of the American religious right rather than any Islamic political ideology.


Should Cameron, Obama, Hollande and Merkel remain tight-lipped about the disorder spreading across Turkey, we must conclude it is because they regard the measure of police force as an expedient that they themselves could ultimately resort to. 

The strange British reluctance to prosecute banned group Al Muhajiroun activists despite their support for al-Qaeda terrorism seems inexplicable. But is it?

The simmering dissent and dissatisfaction unleashed at Gezi Park may not be enough to topple AKP's majority, but it threatens their political agenda as well as Turkey's democratic consolidation.

The elusive truth of on armed raid in eastern Bolivia leads Matt Kennard into a major investigation of the efforts by Washington and its local allies to undermine the radical government of Evo Morales. 

Who represents Scotland's radical traditions, and what does the future look like? A new book, 'Scotland's Road to Socialism', prompts this question, and explores some uncomfortable truths for the Scottish left.

Where the female body - through its societal projections in media, art, politics and religion - has always formed the first port of women's oppression, it is necessary to consider whether attempts to reclaim it through topless protests in the public arena are more likely to defy or to reify existing, repressive paradigms, says Zoe Holman

Taxing wealth is an underexplored option in the UK, given the scale of wealth inequality. A new project confronts this head on, with proposals for radical reform.

Against the 'contemporary' limits of global capitalism, and the pre-given myths of nationalism, an alternative politics may emerge from the collective construction of 'time'. 

The concept of wilaya (guardianship over women) is key to discrimination against women. Debates over different interpretations of guardianship under Muslim law ultimately fail to address the key premises underlying hegemonic notions of masculinity and femininity and the institutions that propagate them argues Afaf Jabiri

Real or imagined, there is a widespread grievance in Britain's ethnic majority that they no longer come first. Does belonging justify increased entitlement, or is this privilege rightly being swept away?

Might the end of one of the most remarkable, and defining, of political careers in Algeria’s history be upon us?