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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...
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Published in: HomeHow a divided Spain started a revolution
The Spanish Revolution is a result of deep underlying divisions running through the Spanish society, which the...
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Published in: HomeWe have broken the silence: Fresh from Madrid, a member of the Communications team of the 15 May Movement
This interview with Beatriz Pérez took place in the early morning of Thursday 26 May in English with additions from...
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Published in: HomeSome kind of revolution
In Puerta del Sol, the camp’s peaceful and serious ethos seems to have won the demonstrators the respect of many...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Spanish protests and the need for politics and conflict
The popular uprising of Spanish youth has been inspiring to observe, but its call for radical democracy should not...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe 'Spanish revolution' and the Commons: a Tale of Two Tweets
While hundreds arrived at the Spanish Embassy in London to support the protesters in Spain, the Labour-run Progress...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEgypt, Bahrain, London, Spain - Tahrir Square as a meme
Certain tropes of struggle are spreading mimetically between movements against poverty, corruption and austerity...
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Published in: HomeUnderstanding ‘Spanishrevolution’
For the last week, Spain has been rocked with its own ‘Spanishrevolution’ - a civil movement which has sprung up to...
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Published in: HomePolitics of fear: a frightened left
Nobody has raised real debates in national or supranational parliaments to discuss the excesses of the securitarian...
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Published in: HomeThe Second Spanish Republic remembered
The values of the Spanish Republic - freedom, progress and solidarity - are also the values of today’s Europe....
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Published in: HomeSortu and ETA: Basque politics, Spanish law
Spain’s supreme court has refused to register a new Basque political party pledged to non-violence, because of its...
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Published in: HomeThis is our revolution, too
Maybe western leaders are afraid that, having seen what it is like when a people dictate to their government what it...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Sudan heads to polls amid renewed violence in Abyei
South Sudan heads to polls amid renewed violence in Abyei. At least fourteen dead in Tunisian employment protests....
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Published in: HomeBarcelona i Catalunya: the real thing
The scholar of world politics and openDemocracy columnist Fred Halliday lived and worked in - and fell in love with...
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Published in: HomeTributes to Fred Halliday 1946 – 2010Fred Halliday, great scholar, international fighter for justice and openDemocracy columnist, died on 26 April 2010....
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Published in: HomeSpain's politics of memory
The Madrid train-bombings on 11 March 2004 provoked a dignified outpouring of collective grief. But the moment was...
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Published in: openSecuritySpain agrees to take in former Guantanamo Bay inmates
Spanish government agrees to house former terrorist suspects. Sydney bomb plotters sentenced. Tymoshenko accuses...
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Published in: HomeSpain, Europe and the world: Zapatero’s moment
Spain’s tenure of the European Union’s presidency is a rare opportunity for its prime minister to make his mark on...
