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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy: real weapons of mass distraction
Matteo Salvini’s rhetoric is getting ever more worrying as we approach the EU elections.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Restive immobility – Melville’s tale of Europe
Seen from the commander’s deck in Brussels, calm is not a bad option after all. Cooptation in power is working...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe UK is 'getting worse' on torture and ill-treatment both at home and abroad
As the UK faces UN scrutiny in Geneva this week, a new report examining everything from British prisons and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Saviours of the nation? – on the breakthrough of the radical populist right in Spain
Attacking the symptom (i.e., the populist radical right) is not going to do the trick – not in Spain, not in the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe relentless factories of hatred, fear and lies: on the global ultraconservative and reactionary waves
There are two undeclared wars on the vast majority of the world's population, the destitute popular classes and the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWe need leaders, but not just any leaders
The greatest danger to our security does not come from refugees looking for a better life, but from politicians who...
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Published in: HomeThe DFLA: a(nother) new UK far right movement?
Britain’s far-right undertow turns hostile currents against ethnic and religious minorities into a tsunami of hatred.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKurdish women’s experience of state violence in Turkey
An Interview with the Migration Monitoring Association (GÖÇİZDER) that illuminates the invisible aspects of the war...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Modern racism
Why a compromise in international politics no longer plays on the side of democracy. And it is democracy that is at stake.
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Published in: 50.50Revealed: the Trump-linked ‘Super PAC’ working behind the scenes to drive Europe’s voters to the far Right
openDemocracy undercover investigation reveals ‘explosive’ evidence of ‘deeply concerning’ coordination between...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe extreme right international movement gets ready to fight its next battle in Spain
Hours before the closing of the campaign, an investigation by openDemocracy reveals the widespread international...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIndigenous communities facing landlessness in Paraguay
A recently ended six-month occupation of a public square in central Asunción by the Tacuara'i community has brought...
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Published in: oDRJustice for Vito: a trial into a high-profile hate crime begins in Georgia
Six months after the murder of Georgian human rights defender Vitali Safarov in Tbilisi, two suspects are now on trial.
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Published in: oDRIn Russia, calling yourself Circassian is always political
Scattered across the world, Circassians are increasingly active online. Now in Russia, activists are putting forward...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s radical right VOX party in their own words
The separatist conflict in Catalonia saw VOX emerge to stardom overnight, just by arguing for Spain’s monolithic National Us.
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Published in: 50.50Esclusivo: fondamentalisti cristiani collegati a Trump trasferiscono milioni di dollari verso l'Europa a sostegno dell'estrema destra
Dopo aver scoperto da openDemocracy che un fiume di denaro ha attraversato l'Atlantico per spingere i programmi...
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Published in: oDRWhat’s behind anti-migrant feeling in Russia’s arctic republic of Yakutia?
In Yakutia, crime and nationality intertwine in the latest wave of anti-migrant feeling in Russia.
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Published in: oDR“My only crime is that I am a Muslim”: mass terrorism arrests hit Crimean Tatar solidarity campaign
Mass arrests of Crimean Tatar activists on terrorism charges once again testify to the “special rules” that are...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDemocracies are not polite
Democracies thrive on discussion and the contest of ideas. However, we must reach a consensus that certain values...
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Published in: 50.50Le donne di tutta Europa sfidano l’estrema destra in Italia
Manifestanti da diversi paesi arrivano a Verona per opporsi al Congresso Mondiale delle Famiglie, il meeting...
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