openDemocracy meets up with Denmark’s fastest-growing political party, Alternativet, and The Alternative UK, who inspired by them, have just launched their own ‘friendly revolution’. Interview.
In both cases, through democratic processes authoritarian rule is imposed on a previously fairly democratic country.
Will Brexit ultimately result in a united federal Ireland in a confederation with Scotland, in the EU – with England and Wales outside it?
The Trump administration may well end up being no worse for humanity at large than the administrations that have preceded it. Español
La administración Trump podría muy bien terminar siendo no mucho peor para la humanidad en general que las administraciones que le han precedido.English
Every country, just like any individual, has to live with its own mess and pay the price for it.
Centre-right parties showed themselves more willing to hook up with anti-globalism – no threat to the international economic order – than the centre-left parties had with anti-globalisation.
In all countries, established political parties have the dangerous propensity to counter this electoral wave of populism by adopting the issues and language used by them.
We can defeat extremism by building something beautiful together.
