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
The populist discourse of Podemos and Syriza is the attempt to cope with a post-industrial and crisis-ridden economy in which traditional class identifications fail to mobilise the electorate.
“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.
The struggles of a variety of movements, peoples, communities and organizations have opened new and creative spaces for participation. Português
Our constant clashes over ‘the commons’ are not just conflicts over public resources. This is a dispute over what passes as common sense.
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.
The chance conjunction in Prague of DOX's Art Brut exhibition and of the Václav Havel Library's 2015 European Dialogues contains a message about European values and the public sphere.
In this report as in the work of Piketty or Atkinson, there appears a new sense of confidence. But in adopting a middle class frame, it misses an opportunity.
Against a repressive government, nonviolent action can often be more effective than violence. A new book surveys how the switch from armed to nonviolent resistance can occur. Book review.
