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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain after Brexit: welcome to the vulture restaurantUS business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The next one hundred years – a salute for Agnes HellerIt is quite wrong to see authoritarianism as harking back to the past. Its threat is built into the times we live in.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIt’s not about reaching Europe, but fleeing Libya: accounts from a Mediterranean rescue shipWhile the whole of Europe was speaking about the castaways we had on board, we were the only ones hearing their stories.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSecurity wins the day over privacy: High Court rules Snoopers’ Charter is not a breach of human rightsA worrying judgement suggests "safeguards" are enough to allow mass surveillance, even if they're not being adhered to.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Drawing the right lessons from the Roma HolocaustHow can we break the cycle of the centuries-long rejection of Roma ?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?When policing becomes political: lessons from France’s gilets jaunesIn America, police brutality is a partisan divider, while in France it could be a political bridge.
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsMP demands investigation into Farage’s US, dark money pro-Brexit campaign groupStark warning of US-style Super PACs arriving in UK as Brexit Party leader launches dark-money-funded campaign group...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightMerkel’s dilemma: Germany’s polarising ‘Turkish issue’ returnsTo prevent such developments, mainstream parties need to shape political discourse, instead of being shaped by it.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightPolitical religions and fascismThe creation of new symbols and rituals to evoke belief in a higher cause are central to the concept, ‘political...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The left will be international or it won’t be at all: lesson from GreeceToday, one of the major historical roles of a progressive left is to explicate the need and pursue the end of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWelcome to Boris Johnson’s government of all the lobbyistsThe prime minister’s new team has strong links to leading corporate lobbyists – they are representing the ultra-rich...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThe ups and downs and clashes of Western civilizationEthnocentric, sexist and racist ideologies demonstrate why it is important to de-colonise the study and teaching of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“We wargamed the last days of Brexit. Here’s what we found out”What can be learned about winners and losers from running a simulation of Brexit as a wargame?
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightWhy the radical right love their intellectualsThere is much we can learn from the 1920’s and 1930’s. For example, it was not only his ideas that made Nae Ionescu...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightWhy the radical right relishes Boris Johnson as prime ministerJohnson’s success in the Conservative leadership election is based upon undeliverable or potentially disastrous...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The European demos and Ursula von der Leyen’s democratic quandaryVon der Leyen cannot create a second chamber, but she can wholeheartedly embrace the idea, and give Europe’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Turkish centre-right: soon over-crowded?Throughout the early 2019 election process, İmamoğlu pushed the boundaries of the secularist main opposition CHP,...
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Published in: HomeTurkish government trying to blame Gezi Park protest on ‘foreign actors’, says imprisoned civil society leaderOsman Kavala says that he has been targeted by the government because of his involvement in civil society.
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Published in: ourEconomyAn agenda for a new internationalismThe UK Labour Party's International Social Forum kickstarted a much needed debate about global justice.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The ‘new right’ is not a reaction to neoliberalism, but its offspringThe neoliberals’ impact on the “new right” is nowhere clearer than in the British hard right’s attempt to enforce a...