Political struggles over the future of Turkey have left the country profoundly divided. Former Prime Minister, now President, Tayyip Erdogan, has fueled growing polarization through his authoritarian response to protests, his large-scale urban development projects, his religious social conservatism, and
The Crisis and Experiment of the Commons: The New Rural Reconstruction Movement in China
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By Ou Ning* Outdoor film screening at Bishan Harvestival 2011. Photo by Hu Xiaogeng. When China joined the WTO in 2001, it became a part of the global economy. The Chinese government has warmly embraced globalization, pushing the process … |
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Climate change, crisis, anti-ziganism: from floods in Romania to arson in Stockholm
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Niculaie, 64 years old, rumanian citizen, is in Högdalen. He was recently thrown out of his temporary home by Swedish police. This was ordered through the enforcement authority by the city hall of Stockholm. “In the place we used to … |
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Thanatopolitics in Greece: when a fascist ruling the ministry of health handles public health over to a private business
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Another organized crime-act, performed under the austerity pre-text, legitimized by the punitive rationales of conservatives and neoliberal economics. Thanatos [than–uh-tos, -tohs], meaning ‘death’ in Greek. Thanatopolitics is a philosophical term that discusses the politics organizing … |
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Book in English on the rise of nazism in today’s Greece
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Dimitris Psarras, a researcher and journalist studying the far right phenomenon in Greece for over 30 years, had a book published in English, with Rosa Luxenburg institute, explaining the history, the particularity and the realities of the far right in … |
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Henry A. Giroux: The Militarization of Racism and Neoliberal Violence
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The recent killing of an unarmed 18-year-old African-American, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer has made visible how a kind of racist, military metaphysics now dominates American life. His subsequent demonization by the media only confirms … |
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The Ongoing Barbarism of Two Nationalisms: Hamas and Israel
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Hamas and Israel exploit their mutual weaknesses to revive their national agendas within the increasingly critical Middle East region (Reblogged from http://www.leftcom.org/en) The pundits are scrambling around to explain the “usual” crisis between Hamas and the State of … |
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Sleepless Nights and Starry Skies
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Source: http://actforfree.nostate.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/SLEEPLESS-NIGHTS.pdf THE World Cup is not about football. If a country becomes a candidate for organizing this event, it is because football absolves the same function today as the spectacle of the gladiators did in ancient Rome, and because … |
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Greece: Which is the private company G4S about to take over the security of detention centres
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By omniatv. Author: filistina Translator: Anna Papoutsi “Private firms providing “security services” will soon undertake the guarding of migrants’ detention centres, as well as the policing of “special” prisoners with monitoring devices, thus paving the way towards the privatisation of … |
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Documentary: Pieces of Madrid
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http://www.globaluprisings.org/new-documentary-pieces-of-madrid/ This short documentary explores ongoing resistance and self-organization in the midst of the economic and social crisis in Madrid, Spain. As social conditions continue to deteriorate across the country, people have been turning to the streets and to each … |
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