Inspired by the US civil rights movement and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, the movement for democratic self-determination in West Papua is using new tactics of nonviolent action to advance its cause.
Russia is on the verge of election season. While simmering social tensions and a nervous elite make these interesting times, no-one really doubts United Russia will sweep a national victory. The interesting battles will be in local and city elections, writes Mikhail Loginov.
Much of left thinking has been based on denial: don't eat this, believe that or behave like the other. Slow Food provides a healthy antidote of inclusion, rather than exclusion, and as the authors discovered in Turin – much to savour.
What role does racism play in fueling support for the Tea Party movement? Tea Partiers are mobilizing to defend economic interests that liberal public policy in the US has fused with whiteness, says Lisa Disch
The west, unlike India, for example, has unwittingly created a wedge between ‘straightness’ and ‘gayness’ that makes it difficult for society to accept homosexuality as ‘normal’.
If Prime Minister David Cameron’s 'Big Society' brings religious groups to the fore even more than Tony Blair’s opening of the education system to faith groups, what impact will this have on British society?
With the Special Tribunal of Lebanon indictment for the assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri set to be issued ‘very, very soon’, the weary and the wary in Lebanon are holding their breath.
A sweeping response to Peter Kellner's argument for Labour to be the party of the British people and the call by Neal Lawson and John Harris for a 'New Socialism'
The explosive conflict over higher education demands a rethink across British society about what it should deliver and who should pay for it.
Driving the new wave of protests in England especially is a generational divide that is economic and cultural: the system traded on the alienation of the young from it but it was never mere passivity and now it started to erupt.
The Big Society must articulate its vision and define its expected outcomes, or face fading from the political landscape.
The ‘new ruins’ – poorly designed and shoddy shopping malls and mass-produced housing – are ubiquitous throughout our cities. Ken Worpole finds that Owen Hatherley is a witty and erudite gazetteer of terrible mistakes, but wonders if the acerbic author is as fair as he could be
