There is enough energy in the public's opposition to the cuts and the marketisation of public services to frustrate and split the UK's Coalition government. But this will need a forensic approach.
How do we pass moral judgment over the use of political violence? What of situations that lack a basic strategy, as on London's March for the Alternative? Paul Sagar regrets the violence last Saturday, but tempers his judgment with an understanding of the underlying reasons.
Fred Halliday (1946-2010), openDemocracy author and Director-Designate of the LSE Middle East Centre, 2006-2008, did not want the LSE to accept a £1.5m grant. He wrote this memo to the University's governing body in October 2009 to try to convince them to give up the money.
The political moment for reform of the banking and shadow-banking industries seems to have passed. UK politics is in thrall to a powerful bank lobby that scores victory after victory
The shocked faces of Camilla and Prince Charles as they are attacked by a group of student demonstrators is now an iconic image. It has come to symbolise the potential of protest to break with the illusion of the separateness of worlds upon which the structures of power are built.
In 1971 a counter-insurgency manual set out an operational response to non-violent direct action protest movements as well as military insurgencies like the Provision IRA in Northern Ireland, drawing on the UK's colonial experience. Today, it holds a surprise for a new reader.
Without massive ongoing public support the banks will fail. We should take the consequences seriously, they extend much further than bonuses
A student protest in central London reveals the ugly face of an unaccountable government and the angry one of an alienated young generation, finds Delwar Hussain.
The Conservative MP, Jesse Norman, this week launches his PFi Rebate campaign, a proposal to raise £500 million by reducing PFi repayments by 0.05%
Protestors and strikers always have two opponents: those they are against and the way the media represents them. Today in London, can different kinds of opposition come together and overcome the media?
With the axe in full swing, the broadcaster’s aspirations now seem to rise no higher than playing Chancellor Osborne’s lapdog. They no doubt feel they are delivering ‘edgy’, ‘daring’ material; in reality they are simply regurgitating the most pernicious and misleading dogma of the corporate lobby.
