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Published in:North Africa, West AsiaIn Turkey, two Facebook posts are enough to land you in jailIn a letter seen by openDemocracy Turkish Canadian PhD student Cihan Erdal says that he is a 'political hostage' -...
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Published in:Can Europe Make It?“They’re uncompromising”: How the young transformed Poland’s abortion protestsFour years ago, Polish women went on strike over an abortion ban. Now, a younger, fiery generation has joined them.
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Published in:openMovements: OpinionMacron’s populism and IslamThe election strategy that forges a new populism through its conceptualization of freedom of expression and...
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Published in:openMovementsCreating a hyperlocal infrastructure of care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid GroupsCOVID-19 mutual aid groups revolve around caring for neighbours as a hyperlocal infrastructure. This can have a...
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Published in:openMovementsSocial movements in Corona times: new constraints, new practicesMovements compensate for the lack of collective actions in public spaces, laying the groundwork for future...
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Published in:Can Europe Make It?: OpinionOpen letter for critical and emancipatory thinking in research and higher education in FranceThis open letter in response to the 'Manifesto of One Hundred' (October 31) has been signed by over 2,000 French...
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Published in:openMovementsA widening data divide: COVID-19 and the Global SouthCOVID-19 shows the need for a global alliance of experts who can fast-track the capacity building of developing...
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Published in:openMovementsCovid-19 crisis and long-term transformations: alternatives from IndiaWill the Government of India listen to us, or go back to business as usual, content to handle the next emergency in...
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Published in:openMovementsWe are all in this together: from global pandemic to global solidaritiesTo be effective, social movements’ actions must be grounded in effective organisational dynamics and democratic...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEurope in 2021
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Published in: HomeSkirmishes on the South African battlefield
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCOVID-19 and the new global chaos
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCovid-19 crisis: normality was the problem
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaSocial movements as essential services
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThree responses to the coronavirus crisis
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Published in: openMovementsVirus: all that is solid melts in the air
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe 'de-aging' of the world
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Published in: openMovementsTowards a more convivial left?
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBolivia on the brink of an abyss
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Published in: HomePortugal as a strategic target of the far right
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaZapatistas: the fight goes on
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe age of pardon or the age of aggression?
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Published in: HomeSmall-town feminist activism in Poland
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe politics of protest in Argentina
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Published in: HomeThe ‘new’ climate politics of Extinction Rebellion?
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Published in: HomeVietnam: how to circumvent state repression
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Published in: HomeRethinking resistance in post-uprisings Egypt
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Published in: HomeThe booming industry of Chinese state internet control
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Published in: HomeCivil rights and voter suppression in the US
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Published in: Home15M's social and political effects in Spain
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBrazil, hijacked by post-truth
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Published in: HomeHarvesting hope: the permaculture movement in India
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Published in: HomeThe jihadogenous urban structure
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Published in: TransformationThe revenge against the commons
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDeath of the “new republic” in Brazil
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaA revolution with the name of a woman
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Brexit: whose will, which public?
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMexico: the volcano of resistance
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Published in: HomeIran: the revolt of the deprived
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Published in: HomeThe new Chilean political (contra) cycle
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Published in: Home(Re)imagining the future in Bolivia
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Published in: HomeHeated debates around domestic violence in Armenia
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Published in: HomeHamburg G20 protests and alternative futures
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Published in: HomeIn Indonesia, the peasant struggle of Kendeng
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Published in: HomeMaking the future possible again
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Published in: HomeFostering alliances across progressive movements
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Published in: oDRFighting back, in the back of beyond
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Published in: HomeHuman nature as victim in Colombia
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Published in: HomeCOP21: the climate movement’s last summit?
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Published in: HomeTrade union building in Myanmar
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Published in: oDRArmenia in the trap of “national unity”
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Published in: HomeInequality and protest – getting it right
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Published in: HomeOccupy is not the reason why Trump won
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Published in: HomeStanding Rock: victory celebrated, struggle to continue
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Published in: HomeThe popular movement of Oaxaca, ten years later
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Published in: HomeNetworks, social movements and the internet in Mexico
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Published in: HomeLiberation pedagogy in Mexico’s social movements
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Published in: oDRDissecting Russia’s winter of protest, five years on
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Published in: oDRThe battle for Moscow
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Published in: HomeDemocracy and social movements in Mexico
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Published in: HomeSelf-organised struggles of migrant care workers
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Published in: HomeProtest against the deportation of asylum seekers
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Published in: HomeRio’s Olympic ruins
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Published in: HomeRio, city of epithets: Olympic urbanism in context
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Published in: oDRIn defence of society: an open platform
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Published in: HomeFailed coup attempt in Turkey: the victory of democracy?
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Published in: HomeDismantling the democracy we wanted for Brazil
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Published in: HomeZimbabwe in turmoil: from the trenches
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Published in: HomeThe dilemma of the European Left
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Published in: HomeAre we Spaniards better off five years afterwards?
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Published in: HomeSpain’s political draw: a problem of programme or image?
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Published in: oDRNeoliberalism, mining and Armenia's politics of plunder
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Published in: oDRDepoliticising protests in Armenia
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Published in: HomeDemocracy after Sanders
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Published in: HomeIs there a future for a social democracy?
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Published in: HomeKarl Polanyi and twenty-first century socialism
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Published in: HomeA new politics from the left?
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Published in: HomeA human economy approach to development
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Published in: HomeEnd of a cycle for the left in Latin America?
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Published in: HomeDefending democracy, reinventing the left
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Published in: oDRThey make money through our dead bodies
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Published in: HomeJapan after Japan
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Published in: HomeWe need a Plan B for growth
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaGlobal South, beyond the State
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Published in: HomeBelated tourists of a postponed-revolution
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Paris has been hit at its heart
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Published in: HomeAnkara’s war on peace
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?More than a refuge, a welcome
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Published in: HomeSouth Africa’s twin rebellions: bifurcated protest
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Published in: HomeNegotiating environmentalism in a democratizing Iran
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hope, power and delusion
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Published in: HomeContested symbiosis: state-NGO relations in China
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Published in: HomeRenewing the Latin American connection
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Published in: HomeLearning from social movement failure
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Published in: HomeProtests of the marginalised: an interview
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Published in: HomeThe crisis of democracy in Japan
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Published in: HomeMoving beyond the squares: anticipating the debate
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Published in: HomeThe citizen revolutions in Latin America
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A dilemma for Podemos
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Published in: HomeAyotzinapa: the events that shook the Mexican youth
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?First we take Barcelona...
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Published in: HomeAfter Tunis. What next for the World Social Forum?
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Published in: HomeTravelling theory
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Published in: HomeDefending the global knowledge commons
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Published in: HomeStill a chance for another Europe?
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Published in: HomePrisons and radicalization in France
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Published in: HomeGlobal terrorism as anti-movement
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Published in: HomeWar and social movements in the age of globalization
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Published in: HomeOpen futures: struggles from below
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Published in: HomeThe Podemos wave
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Breno Bringel is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ) and editor of Dados, a leading Brazilian Social Sciences Journal. His latest book is Global Modernity and Social Contestation, edited with José Maurício Domingues (Sage, 2015). Visit his website. Follow Breno on Twitter: @brenobringel.
Geoffrey Pleyers is FNRS researcher and Professor of sociology at the Université de Louvain, Belgium and associate researcher at the Collège d'Etudes Mondiales. He is the president of the Research Committee 47 "Social classes and social movements" of the International Sociological Association. Visit his website. Follow Geoffrey on Twitter: @GeoffreyPleyers.
Armine Ishkanian is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. She has expertise in civil society, democratisation, gender, and development in the post-socialist countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Follow Armine on Twitter: @Armish15.
