September 11: the world - and Spain - is taken by surprise with the images of over a million people marching down through the streets of Barcelona, peacefully, in a very calm and cheerful mood, with no incidents whatsoever – in itself marking quite a distinctive exception to the trend in these yea
Spain’s crisis is not one of public debt per se. It is of private debt being transformed into a national burden.
Europe's financial-existential crisis has been intensified at every stage by the incomprehension and misjudgment of European authorities, says Krzysztof Rybinski.
As the European crisis intensifies, the Mediterranean’s cultural funding is increasingly landing on the chopping block. But can a cultural policy presided over by a bipolar Union ever hope avoid becoming a victim of the continent’s single-minded drive for austerity? 0 0 1 18 109 Yale University 1
The indignados movement is dead and Spain is back to the traditional political management of demands and interests. The language of protest needs another restructuring.
A year after the revolution of the indignados in Spain, the 15M movement promotes novel solutions to boost democratic participation.
Taking the Occupy movement in Spain as a case in point, location, organisation and timing seem to be crucial when it comes to putting across a lasting message.
A basic income could be of enormous importance as an integral part of a package of measures designed to guarantee the material existence of all people and their possibilities of living according to their own life plans. Universalising property - by providing the essential conditions for material,
The effort by Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón to investigate killings of civilians during the era of General Franco’s dictatorship has made him a legal target. The process raises profound legal and moral issues, says Pia Navazo.
The political class want the London occupation to make demands of them - but the protestors aren't accepting this power dynamic. They are instead assembling publics: the first step towards understanding the present and building for a better future.
By showing us the possibility of democracy in revolution, they have ignited a revolution in democracy, one that is redefining the meaning of both terms.
