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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Our dreams don't fit in your ballot boxesWhen people go home – what happens next? How do you canalise the tidal energy of a protest or social movement until...
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Published in: TransformationJoy arises, rules fall apart: thoughts for the second anniversary of Occupy Wall StreetIn these moments of rupture, people find themselves members of a "we" that did not until then exist, at least not as...
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Published in: HomeThe fight for the square - Tahrir, Sol, Wall Street, Taksim“The fight for the square is turning people into something new, whatever one thinks of what can happen after…”, a...
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Published in: HomeRearticulating the movement post-15M in SpainOn September 15 in Madrid, over one hundred thousand people answered the unions’ call to demand a referendum on...
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Published in: HomeBeyond Occupy: progressive activists in Europe
Occupy is part of a wide range of subterranean movements that explore ways to complement representative democracy...
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Published in: HomeExperiments in democracy and diversity within the Occupy Movement(s)Horizontal democracy attempts to ensure equality by embracing diversity and conflict. Within these political...
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Published in: HomeLos Indignados: a movement that is here to stay
The retreat of national politics in the face of the imperatives of the global financial markets is returning...
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Published in: HomeGreece: Syriza shines a lightLike a swan moving forward with relaxed confidence while paddling furiously beneath the surface, Syriza, the radical...
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Published in: HomeThe Spanish dilemma: a blessing in disguise?
Spain’s crisis is not one of public debt per se. It is of private debt being transformed into a national burden.
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Published in: HomeDebating “the commons” in post-socialist Bulgaria
The absence of solidarity with other causes and the persistence of neoliberalism in Bulgarian protests against the...
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Published in: HomeOccupy Europe: a supranational front of progressive forces is needed to refund the European Union
We have not only to replace Merkel, Rajoy, Monti forthwith and encourage Hollande. We have to get rid of Barroso and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBuilding a civil economy
Game theory or gift society? The narcissistic vision of the homo oeconomicus has failed to acknowledge...
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Published in: HomeFeminist practice in the 15-M movement: progress and outstanding issuesAs a protest space created by men and women, 15-M has not developed tools for recognising the patriarchal logic to...
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Published in: Home15M - Towards real-time democracy
A year after the revolution of the indignados in Spain, the 15M movement promotes novel solutions to boost...
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Published in: HomeHope from below: composing the commons in Iceland
Never again can the world be told by the custodians of the old that the people cannot be relied upon to write the...
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Published in: HomeBeating up the pressPress photographers and cameramen are the latest victims of police brutality in Spain. Unfortunately, the story of...
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Published in: HomeGreek protest in Syntagma Square: in between post-politics and real democracy
Syntagma Square is a political response to a highly polarised political establishment that has repeatedly failed in...
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Published in: HomeReal Journalism Now: the media after Spain's revolution
‘Why are the traditional media losing their credibility? Why do our citizens no longer trust us? In the Puerta del...
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Published in: HomeBeating a retreat (‘En retirada’)
Spain is the only country in the European Union with a population of over a million without a law on access to...
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Published in: HomeMay and Spain's Bermuda Triangle
Real Democracy Now, if it had done nothing else, has rescued a supine Spanish electorate from the stultifying...
