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Published in: Home: AnalysisSinn Féin could win the Northern Irish election. Here’s what that meansAs a younger generation leaves the old sectarian divisions behind, new political alliances are forming
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Published in: Home: OpinionFrance’s election result should serve as a wake-up call for Keir StarmerThe Labour leader and Emmanuel Macron both fail to grasp that aping the far Right won’t lead to its demise
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Published in: Home: OpinionThis time around, the threat of a Le Pen presidency is realThe far Right does not command a majority in France. But Macron’s arrogance and elitism, plus divisions on the Left,...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe French election is all about imperialism. Here’s whyWith oligarchs using their media outlets to promote far-Right presidential candidates, France is being haunted by...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe can still force a U-turn on the UK’s anti-democratic Elections BillJohnson’s government is rewriting the rules to make sure there can only be one winner – and we can’t let that happen
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK government accused of ‘rigging democracy’ with election changesPlans to impose First Past the Post voting system on mayoral and police crime commissioner elections were ‘sneaked...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWho decides Iran’s presidential elections?On Friday, Iranians will go to the polls to vote for the new president. But the will of the people is not the only...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIs this the beginning of the end for Labour?The pandemic should have been a chance to decry inequality and demand change. Instead, Labour tried to win a...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: ExplainerPower is up for grabs in Israel – but does anyone except Netanyahu want it?As yet another election looms, years of discrimination and racism have fragmented Israeli politics, leading voters...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEcuador’s pro-mining politics dealt a blow by Indigenous, green movementIn a historic referendum, more than 80% of the electorate in Cuenca, Ecuador’s third-largest city, voted to ban...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Interview‘Barbarism or solidarity’ at stake at Ecuador elections, says indigenous presidential candidateYaku Pérez, the leader of indigenous party Pachakutik, is running on a green platform – but can he reach outside of...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightIs fascism returning to Romania?A new Romanian radical right party is resurrecting Romania’s interwar fascism.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaGuaidó proposes to step aside if Maduro does so to conduct free, fair, and verifiable electionsThe 6 December parliamentary elections in Venezuela are seen as a fraud by the opposition and part of the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe business of being a bad loser in MexicoThe (ill-gotten) power of defeated candidates in Mexico
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Published in: Home: OpinionAmerica 2020: an interim report from the slough of anxietyA detailed briefing that gives pessimists and optimists alike a lot to think about.
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Published in: ourEconomyWestern style ‘democracy’ in Africa is just a way of pushing the neoliberal agendaThe region has its own rich democratic traditions to draw from.
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionDid the Hungarian local elections break polarisation and extremism?Hungary’s recent elections mark a breakthrough: the paralysing myth of Fidesz’s invincibility has been shattered.
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Published in: HomeLocal bosses may fill the party-sized hole in Ethiopia’s next electionEthiopia has traditions of local self-government – could they induce voters to look at independent candidates for Parliament?
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBolivia elections: another term for Evo Morales?Whether the charismatic but increasingly isolated and contested left-wing president wins or loses, the reality is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe decline of Erdoğanist authoritarianism: a new chance for “democratization” in Turkey?The Istanbul municipal elections might be the beginning of the post-Erdoğan period. But is it the end of authoritarianism?
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
