Ten things you should know about socialism | openDemocracy
WEBFeb 4, 2020 — 4. The U.S., Soviet Union, and China have more in common than you think. As capitalism emerged from feudalism in Europe in the 19th century, it advocated liberty, equality, fraternity, and ...
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great ...
WEBAug 16, 2021 — The set of conspiracy theories around the Great Reset are nebulous and hard to pin down, but piecing them together gives us something like this: the Great Reset is the global elite’s plan to ...
The Battle of Algiers: historical truth and filmic representation
WEBThe ‘Battle of Algiers’ was a pivotal event in the Algerian War of Independence. Taking place in the tiny backstreets and alleys of the Algiers Casbah from the summer of 1956 through to ...
Six reasons why protest is so important for democracy
WEB3. In an electoral democracy, protest provides an essential voice for minority groups. The classic theorists of representational government recognised that universal suffrage and majority voting ...
What does it mean to be a global citizen? | openDemocracy
WEBFeb 13, 2013 — A global citizen is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and practices. Such a definition of ...
Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond
WEBAug 27, 2019 — Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond. A key under-studied area for analysis is how contemporary extreme right movements can also be seen as totalitarian. Indeed, it is not difficult ...
US elections and Project 25: How the right plan to stop abortion ...
WEBAug 27, 2024 — It has been two years since the US Supreme Court blew up federal protection for abortion, handing states the power to enact abortion bans and realising the decades-long fever-dream of anti-rights ...
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WEBA world of devastating weather events, unliveable cities, gross food shortages, and global marginalisation beckons. openDemocracy is an independent international media platform covering current ...
Communism and democracy – a living legacy | openDemocracy
WEBApr 27, 2018 — According to classical Marxism, liberal or “bourgeois” democracy is an instrument of class rule that serves to protect private property and to preserve the capitalist system. To create a ...
Border Security Bill: racism by Starmer’s new Labour government ...
WEBSep 2, 2024 — Proposed powers in the new Border Security Bill would enable border force officers to search people and examine and seize their belongings, including copying data from and retaining people’s ...