‘If representative democracy is only to choose every four, or five, or six years the person who’s going to do everything they want without taking popular will into account... we are in a sort of trap and I think that’s certainly the case today for Europe and elsewhere.’
The luminary of China’s emergent “New Left” speaks to openDemocracy about the lessons of labour unrest, the Cultural Revolution as taboo, and post-party politics.
Laying bare the social and economic structures of oppression to reconstruct a national psyche from the ruins – how an idea caught on.
Unofficial poet laureate UA Fanthorpe is an unlikely icon, having left her prestigious career for a job as a receptionist. But she understood that recording the everyday - the often ignored - can help people to connect, to see the importance of everyone's story. She changed both society and my lif
Both anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish racisms have become part of daily ‘common sense’ constructions everywhere in time of global crisis, expressing insecurity and hostility against ‘the Other’, ‘the terrorist’, ‘the usurper’. The Palestine/Israel question has helped to encourage these conflations and
