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Published in: TransformationSocial innovation and the challenge of democracy in Europe
The hype surrounding the innovation society obscures crucial issues of politics and power.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Our dreams don't fit in your ballot boxes
When 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: TransformationArt after Occupy
In the aftermath of Occupy, artists are utilizing a diversity of tactics at the cutting edges of radical politics...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Romania and Bulgaria: occupy the transition!
Last year’s mass protests in Romania and Bulgaria gave citizens a taste of how together they can transform public...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy: back to the future?
PM Matteo Renzi triumphed over Beppe Grillo and Berlusconi in the last European elections. Does this reshuffling of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“Spain is Different”: Podemos and 15-M
Podemos has presented itself as a party of "decent ordinary people”, who understand the needs of ordinary citizens...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Eurosceptic parties will save Europe’s soul, despite themselves
We must take seriously all the new parties in the European Parliament, not least because they might well be doing us...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Useless European elections?
A vicious circle must be broken, but this can arise only from inside the European perspective, through a mounting...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Can Alexis Tsipras save the Italian left?
The oft-divided Italian radical left has united behind the star of the Greek left, Alexis Tsipras, in the European...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Matteo Renzi: all Italy needs is to believe
For his detractors, Matteo Renzi is a new Berlusconi pursuing charisma, rather than articulate political ideas....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The new Balkan revolts: from protests to plenums, and beyond
The current wave of protests in Bosnia may represent the birth of true activist citizenship. These movements...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Matteo Renzi: Italy’s fake revolution
Last week, Matteo Renzi’s government obtained the backing of the Italian Parliament, aiming to revolutionise the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What Romania can teach the western world
Unlike France, Italy or the Netherlands, the crisis of Romania’s elites has not led to a rise in xenophobic politics...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The ‘laboratory’ called Hungary: a challenge for understanding protest movements
There is a central Hungarian political paradox: it is the conservative governing party (FIDESZ) which has made...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Trouble in Austeria
Can the EU still be rescued following its disastrous failure to tackle the economic crisis?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why are the Irish not resisting austerity?
It has become a cliché to compare the passivity of the Irish in the face of the Troika’s brutal austerity programme...
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Published in: TransformationJoy arises, rules fall apart: thoughts for the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
In 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: Can Europe Make It?The false promise of a new left in Poland
As the old, post-communist left struggles with its own failures, the nascent new left already appears to be...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The legacy of the indignados
Much has been written about the indignados, what was new about them and what is, or will be, their legacy. It is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What's Left in Poland?
In the first article of our new debate on the Left in Poland, Anna Grodzka MP discusses her party, the Palikot...