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Published in: 50.50This powerful one-woman play shows how "black revolutionaries don't just drop from the moon"
With poetry, music and dance, the new play Woke stages the personal, political awakenings of Assata Shakur and a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Over the worst in Europe: the 2010s have not ended like the 1930s
A resurgent “Europe of citizens” has fended off the challenge from the “Europe of Fatherlands”. What remains now is...
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Published in: HomePreventing radical right extremism requires honesty, empathy and a whole society approach. Are we doomed to fail?
We need to empathise with those we fundamentally disagree with. Is society ready for that?
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Published in: HomeBrazil’s conservative revolution
Now it is Bolsonaro’s turn to shut down courses in philosophy and sociology, ostensibly to privilege "areas that...
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Published in: 50.50The war on Europe’s women and LGBTIQ people has only just begun
The far right did not conquer the European Parliament – but this doesn’t mean the threats to our rights have...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Content moderation and censorship: can we handle a double standard?
If we get it right, machine-learning could be useful in identifying hateful networks and building a complete picture...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Triple threat to transparency: a Brexit Story
Any discussion of propaganda and the 2016 European referendum starts with years of Euromythology and migrant-bashing.
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Published in: HomeIndian elections: it wasn’t the economy, stupid!
The people accepted electoral authoritarianism for their security. This neutralised warnings by intellectuals and...
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Published in: 50.50Europe's far-right bid to take back 'Christian Europe'
Focus on Russian 'interference' risks ignoring the growing role of American religious conservatives in fuelling the...
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Published in: HomeSalvini is escalating war on Italy’s Roma community by deploying soldiers
Sending troops to vulnerable camps is feeding anti-Roma sentiment and emboldening the far right.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Thoughts for my fascist brother in the North of Italy
“Far from rejecting the ‘establishment’ they criticize, the League has always represented the interests of corporate...
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Published in: 50.50“Solidarity is in the air”: Meet the bold, young women challenging Europe’s far right across borders
In March, I travelled from London to Verona, Italy to join a historic protest for women’s and LGBTIQ rights – while...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Perceptions of Jews or perceptions of antisemitism?
“I’m not neutral in this debate, as I’m an anti-Zionist diasporic Israeli Jew most of whose family have been...
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Published in: 50.50Is your prosecco funding the far right?
British restaurant critic Jay Rayner slams leading prosecco firm for sponsoring coalition of ‘racists, bigots and...
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Published in: 50.50Prosecco firm slammed for sponsoring summit of ‘racists, bigots and ultra nationalists’
British restaurant critic and LGBT rights campaigners call for boycott over support for recent gathering of US,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?PNL and ‘European Others’
How France’s most successful rappers set about countering Europe's hegemonic narratives.
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Published in: 50.50Hundreds of Europeans ‘criminalised’ for helping migrants – as far right aims to win big in European elections
Elderly women, priests and firefighters among those arrested, charged or ‘harassed’ by police for supporting...
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Published in: ourNHSHow NHS staff are fighting back against the ‘hostile environment’
The Daily Mail's claims of our success are sadly premature - but the "patients not passports" campaign is indeed growing.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDon’t feed the Farage trolls
As I’ve learned in the European Parliament, publicly debating with Farage and his bad-cop UKIP outliers often merely...