By de-demonizing the signifier ‘communism’ we can open new ways to think about the explosive combination of popular actors questioning the legitimacy of democracy and the figure of the State. Español
“You are not only Turkish, Kurdish; not solely Armenian, Arab, Circassian, Georgian or Bosniak… Alevi, Sunni, Syriac, or Yazidi… Jewish, Hebrew, or Christian. You are all of them.”
As has been seen clearly during this campaign period, the harsh rhetoric used by the AK Party and the HDP regarding one another has brought the negotiations to the edge of a total freeze.
How did the struggle for Palestine gain such prominence on the left? The answer might tell us something about broader patterns of thought in left-wing politics today.
We must call for the Angolan government to drop all charges against the journalist Rafael Marques de Morais. His work needs to be supported, not silenced.
Os limites às “políticas participativas” evidenciam a necessidade de se construir instrumentos culturalmente adequados de participação direta e efetiva dos grupos étnicos. English
The struggles of a variety of movements, peoples, communities and organizations have opened new and creative spaces for participation. Português
The European Commission should take a hard stance and insist on European standards, while looking for novel ways in which to break down “behind-the-border” barriers to trade.
US diplomatic efforts to quell violence in Syria have been halfhearted and ineffective.
All of the students who take up the democratic challenges currently facing the EU and offer the following policy recommendations to address them are united in their desire to improve Europe for the future, a Europe which they wish to help create.
Israeli policy makers make sure to stay on the safe side of a de-jure separation, but often their daily actions speak louder than laws.
