Idomeni refugee camp was,over the last three weeks, the epicentre of the refugee crisis in Europe. The growing violence in the camp arose from the closure of the border. Português.
The role of technology in solving the climate change challenge was completely ignored by world leaders at the Paris conference.
In the short term, Europe can only survive as a way of solving common problems, worth having insofar as the EU stabilises crises and protects the economic wellbeing of its citizens.
Podemos, rather than being a prosthesis for the 15-M multitude, should be conceived as a weapon it needed to be able to navigate this fluid and unstable historical conjuncture. Español
In only one year and a few months of existence, Podemos has successfully obliged all the pre-existing parties to incorporate its repertoire of ideas, methods and metaphors. Español.
Podemos mistook their local committees (the celebrated circulos), along with the municipalist initiatives, for mere generators of demands, not places for collective construction and political creativity. Español.
Surrogacy is marketed by the idea that it will succeed where all methods of procreation have failed. But what happens when it doesn’t, and who pays the cost of failure?
It takes a lot to get very little, but there is no other option… we must open a new way, without the means to do so. We are in the belly of the whale.
It is not a “choice” in the proper sense, it is rather an instinct to reach the surface in order to breathe. It offers them a home in which the restlessness of “to be” can be resolved.
Citizen coalitions have been in power for six months in Madrid, Barcelona, and many more cities in Spain. What are the main take-aways? And what will happen with the Spanish national elections of 20 December? (Video, 32 mins)
Mired in political chicanery, the presidential handover was not up to the standards of an advanced democracy. But suspicions of maneuvers trying to limit press freedom are much more worrying. Español
This vision of education forming the basis of the educational model that Podemos proposes is openly opposed to the ruinous policies of privatization that began in Europe in the 1980s. Español.
