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The stakes for Europe are higher than they seem in elections overshadowed by the far right

14 May 2024

Politics & economy

The stakes for Europe are higher than they seem in elections overshadowed by the far right

In the 6 to 9 June elections, Europeans are staking much more than it seems: with unprecedented support for the far right, between high levels of discontent and disinformation, they risk condemning themselves to losing social rights and legitimising a divided and ineffective European [...]Read the full article

Eight decades after the Spanish Civil War, is Spain's slow exhumation of its traumatic past a signal that it is ready to build “a culture of memory?

15 April 2024

Politics & economy

Eight decades after the Spanish Civil War, is Spain’s slow exhumation of its traumatic past a signal that it is ready to build “a culture of memory?

The search for persons disappeared during the Spanish Civil War, a search backed by the United Nations and overshadowed by political debate, has resulted in the exhumation of just 800 mass graves over the last two decades, out of a total of around 3,500. It is a fragile advance that risks being [...]Read the full article

Enrico Somaglia of EFFAT: “What some call red tape is for us, a red line”

9 February 2024

Enrico Somaglia of EFFAT: “What some call red tape is for us, a red line”

“It’s very easy to address all your frustrations to the EU and Brussels bureaucrats. But as a trade union representing agricultural workers, we defend the Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy. We believe they can help us make the sector more sustainable and, from a social point of view, they [...]Read the full article

Verónica Gago, essayist: “Inflation is driving what is happening and pulverising everything else”

16 October 2023

Politics & economy

Verónica Gago, essayist: “Inflation is driving what is happening and pulverising everything else”

The success of the far right in Argentina “cannot be separated from a critical political and economic situation [with galloping inflation] that makes you feel like your income is losing value from one minute to the next. It’s a daily battle through the economy, which causes tremendous [...]Read the full article

Israel's far-right government goes all-in as secular Israelis seek a way out

21 April 2023

Israel’s far-right government goes all-in as secular Israelis seek a way out

Recent moves by Israel’s right-wing government to weaken the power of the judiciary and further erode human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is pushing the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors to seek EU citizenship and move back to the countries where their grandparents were once [...]Read the full article

For Argentine sociologist Ariel Goldstein: “The growth of evangelical churches is a result of the failure of the state to resolve the major problems that people face”

17 February 2023

Politics & economy

For Argentine sociologist Ariel Goldstein: “The growth of evangelical churches is a result of the failure of the state to resolve the major problems that people face”

Why are evangelical churches in Latin America increasingly influencing the region’s political, social and economic agenda? Argentine sociologist Ariel Goldstein provides some insight into the phenomenon.Read the full article

Across South Asia, online hate speech is increasingly leading to real-world harm

13 July 2022

Across South Asia, online hate speech is increasingly leading to real-world harm

Fuelled by politicians and amplified by social media algorithms, hate speech is proliferating online across South Asia. Inflammatory posts garner thousands of views before they are taken down, with offline, sometimes deadly consequences.Read the full article

Ideology and energy: the story of Hungary's geopolitical realignment

30 May 2022

Politics & economy

Ideology and energy: the story of Hungary’s geopolitical realignment

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has reversed his country’s longstanding transatlanticist policy and embraced Putin’s Russia.Read the full article

José Mujica: “Digital civilisation is creating a real disease in representative democracy, and I don't know what the cure is”

16 April 2021

Politics & economy

José Mujica: “Digital civilisation is creating a real disease in representative democracy, and I don’t know what the cure is”

The worst dictatorship in the world could never even dream of having a mechanism that would allow it to get into people’s subconscious, and what’s worse is that it’s in the hands of private companies that sell their services.Read the full article

Even in peaceful countries, journalists are increasingly being identified as ‘public enemies'

3 March 2021

Even in peaceful countries, journalists are increasingly being identified as ‘public enemies’

Since 2018, most of the murders of journalists no longer occur in countries where there is armed conflict. Now they happen in nominally peaceful nations. Neither criticism from those in power nor populist speeches assassinate journalists directly. However, they do worsen the environment for the [...]Read the full article

Understanding the era of emotion

1 February 2021

Understanding the era of emotion

In recent years, neuroscience has demonstrated the powerful role that emotions play in our decision-making – something that brands, social media and politicians have figured out how to exploit.Read the full article

It's time for an alternative approach to migration and asylum policy in Europe

25 September 2020

It’s time for an alternative approach to migration and asylum policy in Europe

Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde: The EU’s current approach is not only censurable for all that it entails in terms of neglect of duty, non-compliance with international commitments and collaboration with the endless atrocities committed by mafias and governments, but also, and all the more so, for the simple reason that it does [...]Read the full article

The murder of Bruno Candé has put racism – and colonial amnesia – under the spotlight in Portugal

11 September 2020

The murder of Bruno Candé has put racism – and colonial amnesia – under the spotlight in Portugal

“There is this national fantasy of Portuguese exceptionalism which is maintained by silence and omission. We need to dismantle these fantasies that feed racism and justify exploitation and supremacist ideas.”Read the full article

Enough with the slogans and statements – it's time for Europe and its institutions to uproot racism at all levels

25 June 2020

Enough with the slogans and statements – it’s time for Europe and its institutions to uproot racism at all levels

Kékéli Kpognon: “As long as the conversation on racism fails to go deeper than the self-congratulating assessment that ‘Europe has been doing better than the US in issues of race’, little will be done to tackle historical and structural racism across the [...]Read the full article

Fuelled by social media, in India Muslims are “a convenient scapegoat” for the coronavirus

6 May 2020

Fuelled by social media, in India Muslims are “a convenient scapegoat” for the coronavirus

“The term ‘CoronaJihad’ not only blames the Islamic community for the virus but also implies that with it the community is targeting the majority – the Hindus in India.”Read the full article

People-powered local politics can save democracy from populism

16 April 2020

Politics & economy

People-powered local politics can save democracy from populism

Steve Rushton: Globally, the far-right is on the rise. Locally grounded politics can challenge the populists and deal with the systemic problems we all face.Read the full article

Can Vienna's model of social housing provide the inspiration to tackle Europe's housing crisis?

22 January 2020

Politics & economy

Can Vienna’s model of social housing provide the inspiration to tackle Europe’s housing crisis?

Housing in Vienna costs significantly less than in other European capitals. This is partly due to the fact that close to half of Vienna’s housing stock consists of public housing, a 20th century political legacy of the Social Democratic [...]Read the full article

9 January 2020

Here’s how civil society can push rising hate back to the fringes

Andrew Firmin: This global backlash of conservative anti-rights activism has been eroding hard-won human rights across the globe. But it is being met by an impressive civil society response that is increasingly seeking to build new coalitions and reach a broader range of [...]Read the full article

Patriarchy's counteroffensive: meet the international anti-feminism lobby

25 November 2019

Patriarchy’s counteroffensive: meet the international anti-feminism lobby

Campaigns aimed at stopping the legalisation of abortion, denying gender-based violence or advocating therapies to cure homosexuality are being promoted by international networks forming a powerful lobby. They talk of ‘gender ideology’ and their target is [...]Read the full article

How to end hatred

15 November 2019

How to end hatred

“Rejection of the ‘other’ has always existed, but something has changed. Now the hate is open and unabashed, free of all restraint.”Read the full article

7 November 2019

We’ve defeated fascism once before; to do it again we must stand UNITED

Nathan J. Thomas: Ahead of the International Day Against Fascism on 9 November, UNITED looks at how European fascism is being resisted today, and the urgent lessons we must learn from history.Read the full article

Jordi Vaquer: “We are not taking the danger of white supremacism and extreme-right violence seriously enough”

31 October 2019

Jordi Vaquer: “We are not taking the danger of white supremacism and extreme-right violence seriously enough”

“Today we have governments that are either led or conditioned by forces that are questioning issues of equality that were previously agreed in principle.”Read the full article

Despite the anti-immigrant rhetoric, Poland receives more migrant workers than anywhere else in the world

11 October 2019

Politics & economy

Despite the anti-immigrant rhetoric, Poland receives more migrant workers than anywhere else in the world

With record low-unemployment rates and millions of Polish people of working age living and working elsewhere, an estimated 1.5 million migrant workers are needed by 2025 to power the country’s economic growth.Read the full article

Emboldened by the state, Brazil's militias are operating with increasing impunity

30 August 2019

Emboldened by the state, Brazil’s militias are operating with increasing impunity

By allowing citizens to own guns, President Bolsonaro is actively helping militias, narcotraffickers, land grabbers collaborating with agrobusinesses and other criminals gain access to even more firepower.Read the full article

In the US, big banks are divesting from private prisons, thanks to anti-ICE activism

20 August 2019

Politics & economy

In the US, big banks are divesting from private prisons, thanks to anti-ICE activism

“Activists can hold financial institutions accountable for investing in human rights abuses, and those who profit from misery can be hit where it hurts – in the wallet.”Read the full article

This may feel like the 1930s, but history doesn't have to repeat itself

3 June 2019

Politics & economy

This may feel like the 1930s, but history doesn’t have to repeat itself

Nick Dearden: “We can beat climate change, use artificial intelligence to build a better world and restrain corporate power. But we can only do so by forming networks, locally, nationally and internationally.”Read the full article

Ahead of the EU elections, neo-fascists are inciting anti-Roma violence in Rome's disillusioned suburbs

22 May 2019

Politics & economy

Ahead of the EU elections, neo-fascists are inciting anti-Roma violence in Rome’s disillusioned suburbs

The facts are meaningless when it comes to exploiting the allocation of social housing to a Roma family for electoral purposes.Read the full article

25 April 2019

Politics & economy

How Bolsonaro administration is already undermining Brazil’s commitment to Agenda 2030

Mayra Castro : In his first four months in government, Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has adopted measures that have thrown Brazil’s fulfilment of the Agenda 2030 goals off track.Read the full article

Should we be worried about the declining economic weight of income from labour?

18 April 2019

Politics & economy

Should we be worried about the declining economic weight of income from labour?

Carmen Vizán Rodríguez: The decline in the labour share in the economy, linked to the shrinking of the state, globalisation, financialisation, technological change, corporate concentration and the fall in workers’ bargaining power, has major socioeconomic and political [...]Read the full article

More of the same in Israel

12 April 2019

Politics & economy

More of the same in Israel

Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde: Aside from a few nuances and the uncertainties regarding the formation of a new government, the one overall conclusion we can draw from these elections is that we can expect to see more of the same, in other words, more fait accompli tactics being deployed by Israel and more hardships for the [...]Read the full article

Fascism in Brazil and the emerging resistance

30 October 2018

Politics & economy

Fascism in Brazil and the emerging resistance

Glauber Sezerino : “Of all the forms of resistance seen over the last few weeks, one in particular seems the most capable of confronting the fascist menace threatening Brazil: the active and on-going resistance of women, particularly of black women.”Read the full article

Lecia Brooks of the SPLC: “We're in this ‘growing pains' moment and I think we'll be ok. It's just going to get really ugly first”

19 October 2018

Lecia Brooks of the SPLC: “We’re in this ‘growing pains’ moment and I think we’ll be ok. It’s just going to get really ugly first”

“Ultimately, white supremacists can’t win because they don’t have the numbers in terms of the population. They know that the shift is happening; this is their last gap of hope.”Read the full article

Who's afraid of multiracial Europe?

12 October 2018

Who’s afraid of multiracial Europe?

The world is becoming an increasingly diverse patchwork. Although, as geneticists explain, it is only diverse on the outside.Read the full article

SOS democracy?

31 August 2018

Politics & economy

SOS democracy?

Have we entered the era of populism and authoritarianism? Regardless of which continent you look at, there is no shortage of examples to stir pessimism. And yet there are less autocracies than three decades ago, and two thirds of the world’s people live in democratic [...]Read the full article

Lech Walesa: “If we don't give people solutions, it will awaken the demons of the past”

1 June 2018

Politics & economy

Lech Walesa: “If we don’t give people solutions, it will awaken the demons of the past”

In this interview with Equal Times, the former Polish president calls for ‘positive globalisation’ and a change of attitude from the United States, as well as sharing his views on homosexuality, freedom of expression and the accusations of spying that he [...]Read the full article

The assassination of Marielle Franco is as much about Brazil's past as its future

4 April 2018

Politics & economy

The assassination of Marielle Franco is as much about Brazil’s past as its future

Nicolò Giangrande: Franco was a prominent dissenting voice in a racist and classist society, which made her a target. But her death has triggered a new wave of activism, just at the start of a very long and uncertain presidential election.Read the full article

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