You would think a peace movement would be the least patriarchal of all social movements but you can masculinise anything. Feminist understanding challenges what it really takes to make peace.
While movements in Brazil and South Africa have been fueled by unrealized socio-economic expectations and by explosive growth in India, what they have most in common is the subordination of democracy to money.
The city of Baltimore was in a ‘state of emergency’ long before the rioting began.
Smugglers are not the cause of migration; they are the consequences of the EU’s expanding border surveillance regime. The EU should concentrate on saving migrants from this regime.
The Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra believes that the west has lost the power to create a world after its own image. What is the future of the ‘western model’?
Meet the new networked movements that are taking on big business, and winning big victories.
Lo que llevó a la izquierda a gobernar en esta parte del mundo debe entenderse como parte de un proceso de exclusión de la arena sociopolítica de las capas pobres de la sociedad. Publicado previamente en openDemocracy . English.
The ‘utopian’ slur against peacemakers is defeatist propaganda for pro-war, pro-militarisation and securitisation interests and the military-industrial complex. Marion Bowman reports from WILPF's Centenary Conference in the Hague.
Kilicdaroglu not only promised to address the problems of the country’s 17 million poor, but tied the reforms to a timeline, not at all common in Turkish politics.
On 1 May Occupy Democracy will be returning to Parliament Square to demonstrate against the UK's inveterate political system.
