Ten things you should know about socialism | openDemocracy
Feb 4, 2020 · Over the last 200 years, socialism has spread across the world. In every country, it carries the lessons and scars of its particular history there.
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great ...
Aug 16, 2021 · ‘The Great Reset’ conspiracy theories don’t seem to want to die. The theories were triggered by the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) summit last year, which had the theme …
Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond
Aug 27, 2019 · In the late 1970s, the Czechoslovak critic of communism, Vaclav Havel, helped to develop another key piece of terminology, ‘post-totalitarianism’, to describe the contradictory …
Six reasons why protest is so important for democracy
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What does it mean to be a global citizen? | openDemocracy
Feb 13, 2013 · A global citizen is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and practices.
Why we need White History Month | openDemocracy
Oct 25, 2021 · I wish I could join the throngs of people queuing up to slag off Black History Month. Four weeks and more on the transatlantic slave trade, the Underground Railroad and the …
Cory Aquino and democracy in the Philippines | openDemocracy
The Filipino opposition activist Benigno Aquino was assassinated on the tarmac of Manila airport on 21 August 1983, moments after his return to the country to challenge the rule of long-term ...
Communism and democracy – a living legacy | openDemocracy
Apr 27, 2018 · Political actors must always reckon with natural limits, structural bias, institutional inertia, vested interests and the actions of their opponents, not to mention irreducible …
What was communism? | openDemocracy
Few occasions are more propitious for forgetting the past than moments of historical commemoration. Amidst fond recollections of the fall of the Berlin wall, and in a time of, at …
Race and racism in modern Turkey | openDemocracy
Nov 5, 2014 · First President of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Wikimedia/Public domain.When General İlker Basbuğ, the highest ranking officer in Turkey until just a few years …