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Published on: 27 March 2022

Written by: Rashmee Roshan Lall All articles by Rashmee Roshan Lall

Leading obituary writers discuss who gets to be publicly memorialised in death – and who doesn’t

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Published on: 7 February 2022

Written by: Anthony Barnett All articles by Anthony Barnett

Written by: James Curran All articles by James Curran

openDemocracy’s former North America editor has sadly died. Here, our co-founder remembers a dear friend, as we...

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Published on: 19 July 2021

Written by: Adam Ramsay All articles by Adam Ramsay

The writer, who died at just 34, gloriously represented an audience that so many in the media hadn’t understood was there

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Published on: 7 September 2020

Written by: Jonathan Moses All articles by Jonathan Moses

The anthropologist, anarchist and activist, author of "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and "Bullshit Jobs", has died at...

Published in: Transformation

Published on: 21 November 2014

Written by: Dean Spade All articles by Dean Spade

Author and activist Leslie Feinberg died this week, just before Transgender Day of Remembrance. As the opposite of a...

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Published on: 9 June 2014

Written by: Jon Hanna All articles by Jon Hanna

Legendary chemist, psychedelic adventurer and author passed away June 2nd.

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Published on: 18 January 2013

Written by: Kristina Gorelik All articles by Kristina Gorelik

Tributes are flooding in to the renowned Russian human rights lawyer Yury Schmidt, who has died aged 75. Schmidt...

Democracy is being eroded across the world.