Are we standing on the brink of a new kind of nihilistic governmentality, where politics is turned into perpetual theatre, disconnected from any kind of coherent government programming?
The view that social struggle should be repressed is hindering the opposition. Unless the view of the state and its coercive apparatus changes, the chances of wide scale social transformation are limited.
The growth of religious fundamentalist forces in Bangladesh poses life-threatening challenges to atheists and secularists.
A meditation on the ‘millennials’ and several of the discussions at Team Syntegrity 2017.
Police and protests meet at the G20: a litmus test for freedom.
Sister Genoveva is a 70-year old Colombian nun. She teaches city kids on human trafficking and she objects that the Bible was written by men with a patriarchal vision. Español
The CHP leadership have to ask themselves which they find more distasteful: Erdoğan’s autocracy or concessions on Kurdish rights?
African feminist movements are diverse. But we can, and must, learn from decades of transformational organising on the continent.
I have been a qualified facilitator for more than two decades, but had almost forgotten what this extraordinary three-and-a-half day process was like. Would it be different in the twenty-first century?
Chaotic crowds, like natural disasters or terrorism, are perceived as ultimate threats. The excesses of the resulting strategies of preemption became obvious during the G20 summit.
“When it comes to BAME, Ofcom must set a minimum standard that the BBC have to meet behind the camera.”
A recent conference on freedom of expression threw up issues around relationships between ex-Muslims and reformist Muslims – and the ideological confusion of their allies.
