"MPs from France, we inform you of the People's Directives for you to transpose them into LAW. "
The movement today is national, and in part nationalistic, very difficult to talk to about the reform of Europe. Nevertheless, it is a challenge to a pan-European movement like DiEM25.
Commercy's Yellow Vests offer a political solution to the movement: autonomous local committees, direct democracy, sovereign general assembly, delegates with a precise mandate revocable at any time, rotating responsibilities.
Centuries of entrenched patriarchy cannot be upturned in a month. But this country finally looks ready for a feminist overhaul.
A TV debate would solve nothing, and claims about “the will of the people” are vapid. We need to find a way to hold a meaningful debate. (The rest and the West Part 2. - Part One is here.)
To win the battle against the far right, the left must understand that it faces a fragmented enemy, which is quite different from unitary historical fascism. Español
The public university strike in Colombia has reached its 7 week mark as will continue until further notice. This mobilisation throws the crisis of public education in the country into the spotlight. Español
The Novomedia forum in Kyiv offered a close-up look at the communications strategies of internationally connected ultra-conservatives
The political right is not only cracking down on academic freedoms, but has started simultaneously to become a fierce advocate of an aggressively anti-intellectual freedom of speech.
The students that the government is hoping to dissuade from studying in France are the young people of its former colonies. How does this square with ‘patriotism as openness’?
After the COP21 in Paris, Macron wanted to become the world leader on Climate Change. But what could seem accurate policy measures not always are perceived as fair politics.
For the past two years openDemocracy has been tracking down the secretive, wealthy donors trying to influence British politics unseen.
