The coalition government has shown little interest in engaging in an authentic reconciliation between Tunisians with different political allegiances.
Today openDemocracy launches a special global feature: How do the 2012 US elections look from here? And we launch it in Greece, Europe’s cradle of democracy and twenty-first century scandal for democracy worldwide.
Chris Grayling may find the solutions to his problems lie in penal reform.
The Conservatives pledged to make British society more ‘family friendly’ on coming to power. Are they succeeding?
A big Trade Union rally is taking place tomorrow - the 20th October. It is misconceived.
UN, international, Palestinian, and Israeli human rights organisations do important work in Palestine. But the magic 'national security' argument is always available as a tool for the government of Israel.
Tunisians went to the polls almost exactly one year ago, in their first and free elections, the major outcome of the revolution. Today, Tunisia stands fragmented politically, its economy is struggling and its social protests remain unabated. And its first anniversary may be marked in ways that are
In addressing Catalunya's call for autonomy, the EU and Spain must remember lessons from Slovenia’s case for independence. There are clear parallels between the situation in Spain and that of Yugoslavia in the late 1980s.
Nonviolent Peaceforce has not just been ‘monitoring’ the ceasefire in Mindanao. NP teams have been out there every day actually ‘peacekeeping’ in the true sense of that word: addressing concrete problems on the ground, de-escalating tensions, preventing displacement and disruption of normal life
Britain needs a national conversation on its imperilled political and moral culture. Has the Labour leader had the first word?
Despite all the compliments, we are entitled to ask: what has Britain’s current Labour Party really learned from Eric Hobsbawm?
