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Published in: HomeMigrants as activist citizens in Italy
In 2010 and 2011 migrants behaved like activist citizens throughout Italy, initiating a new cycle of struggles in...
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Published in: HomeTaking up the gauntlet in the UK: the only real Big Society is the associative society
The uncritical understanding of what constitutes a ‘community’ and the failure to grasp what forms of citizen...
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Published in: HomeThe fight for a genuinely democratic Europe
In France, the Manifesto of Appalled Economists underlined some of the country’s most prominent economic concerns...
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Published in: HomeFlemish nationalism: a new landscape
The results of Belgium's local elections has brought victory in the northern Flanders region to the conservative and...
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Published in: HomeRearticulating the movement post-15M in Spain
On September 15 in Madrid, over one hundred thousand people answered the unions’ call to demand a referendum on...
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Published in: HomeRe-imagining Europe: re-imagining democracy
People across Europe are critiquing the morality of the political and economic system. Globalisation has helped to...
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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: HomeThey all want Monti longer... because they all fear Beppe Grillo's revolution!
In Italy, a consensus is slowly building around a second term for Mario Monti's technocratic government – but could...
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Published in: HomeGreece: Syriza shines a light
Like a swan moving forward with relaxed confidence while paddling furiously beneath the surface, Syriza, the radical...
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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: 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: HomeMay and Spain's Bermuda Triangle
Real Democracy Now, if it had done nothing else, has rescued a supine Spanish electorate from the stultifying...