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Published in: HomeSpain’s political draw: a problem of programme or image?
Sunday, June 26, Spanish elections. A new alliance between Podemos and Izquierda Unida aims to unlock the political...
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Published in: oDRNeoliberalism, mining and Armenia's politics of plunder
The resurgence of fighting with Azerbaijan could hinder progressive mobilisation in Armenia, but recent...
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Published in: oDRTheir security, our poverty: militarisation and Lithuania’s new labour code
There are signs that a new movement is emerging against austerity in Lithuania, but it will have to contend with a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What role for the ETUC in organising workers in Europe?
The added value of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is its role as a think-tank or even of a...
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Published in: HomeAffirming democracy: trade union action meets work fragmentation
How do you organize collective action if the workforce is spread in a fragmented value chain and if the power that...
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Published in: oDRDepoliticising protests in Armenia
Years of social and environmental protests in Armenia have proven one thing — our demands must be political in...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy after Sanders
Building a progressive alternative, beyond social media and mass rallies.
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Published in: HomeLebanese activists leave their ‘comfort zone’: how to overcome mistrust in conventional politics
In a context where all other forms of political action seemed to be blocked in the foreseeable future, municipal...
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Published in: HomeIs there a future for a social democracy?
Social democracy has been limited to understanding market principles and redistribution as ways of serving the...
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Published in: HomeKarl Polanyi and twenty-first century socialism
Polanyi’s views were the exact opposite of his contemporary, Joseph Schumpeter, who famously defined democracy as...
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Published in: HomeThe crisis in European social democracy: a crisis like no other
Social democracy, as practiced so far, is disappointing and depressing. There are grounds for confidence in its...
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Published in: HomeA new politics from the left?
Can it be achieved from within existing political institutions, or does it require new sources of power to be built...
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Published in: HomeA human economy approach to development
Money buys the machines that control people’s access to work. Humanity’s task is to reverse that order.
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Published in: HomeEnd of a cycle for the left in Latin America?
We share a common enemy: a neo-conservative project for capital accumulation on a global scale, based on extreme...
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Published in: HomeDefending democracy, reinventing the left
Representative democracy can only strengthen if it resorts to more participatory and deliberative mechanisms, a new...
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Published in: Home“We must never forget, so it never happens again”: Brazil’s peasant internationalism
On International Day of Peasant Struggles, we reflect on Brazil’s ‘Landless Workers’ Movement’, which has been at...
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Published in: oDRThey make money through our dead bodies
Negotiation processes over conflict are practically impotent in men’s hands. A statement on the recent hostilities...
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Published in: Home« Nuit Debout » : citizens are back in the squares in Paris
What distinguishes a social movement from any other kind of mobilization is the fact that it does not focus on a...
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Published in: HomeOpen Letter to the International Community about the political situation in Brazil
A new type of “judicial-mediatic coup”, more complex and sophisticated than the military coup, is under way in...
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Published in: HomeJapan after Japan
Post-Fukushima social movements, the rebirth of history and tacit futures. An interview.