As the government makes a grab for new terrorism powers, we need to examine the basis of its "extremism" narrative.
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.
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
Our constant clashes over ‘the commons’ are not just conflicts over public resources. This is a dispute over what passes as common sense.
