Darfur has practically been closed off to journalists, politicians and independent civil society organizations, and sexual violence and rape have now become a reality in women's day-to-day lives.
Neoliberalism and nationalism will continue to be fused under the recent Bulgarian coalition. Domestic policy outcomes are unlikely to differ from previous coalition governments.
Guanyem Barcelona is a citizen platform that has embarked on a mission to solve the current Spanish political crises with their own hands. This increasingly popular political movement aims to remove power from elites and bring democracy to the people.
Progress has been slow. Other than Wilder, only one other African American – Deval Patrick of Massachusetts – has been elected governor of any state.
The Arab awakening is creating a new socio-political and economic reality in the region, transforming the balance of power, not because states have become stronger, but rather because states have become weak and fragile.
In 2001, Howard Clark authored this piece for War Resisters’ International on the dangers inherent in extending the degree of social mobilisation. A common tendency for many of us is to mistake militancy for empowerment. Such militancy, however, has its price.
Those arrested in Iran after the presidential election of June 2009 join the detainees from earlier moments of repression. The blogger and openDemocracy author Hossein Derakhshan is one of the latter. The anniversary of his incarceration is being marked by efforts to publicise his case, reports Da
He was an increasingly isolated figure, regarded at the time with a contempt and hostility from some Party apparatchiks that exceeded even MI5 denunciations.
Writing in 2012 for War Resisters’ International, Howard Clark sketches the situation facing nonviolent movements against land grab and militarism. For Clark, campaigns that combined attachment to land with opposition to war and militarism carried a special appeal.
Navigating between cooperation and confrontation vis-à-vis institutions of power, as WILPF approaches its centenary it must continue to avoid cooptation into a system that produces the violence it abhors.
An approach to building revolutionary organisation addressing the specific challenges of the Egyptian context, while also being rooted in a broader tradition of revolutionary socialist politics.
