Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great ...
Aug 16, 2021 · The set of conspiracy theories around the Great Reset are nebulous and hard to pin down, but piecing them together gives us something like this: the Great Reset is the global elite’s plan to ...
Six reasons why protest is so important for democracy
3. In an electoral democracy, protest provides an essential voice for minority groups. The classic theorists of representational government recognised that universal suffrage and majority voting ...
Ten things you should know about socialism | openDemocracy
Feb 4, 2020 · 4. The U.S., Soviet Union, and China have more in common than you think. As capitalism emerged from feudalism in Europe in the 19th century, it advocated liberty, equality, fraternity, and ...
The biggest donors to Labour and the Tories in 2023
Mar 13, 2024 · The Conservatives received the most donations by far, raking in £44.5m in cash, compared with Labour ’s total of £21.6m, £6m for the Liberal Democrats, £610,000 for the Green Party and £ ...
Why we need White History Month | openDemocracy
Oct 25, 2021 · Perhaps, by announcing a White History Month, in which non-White peoples are explicitly evacuated from key points in the history of the UK, we might be able to understand better the mechanics of ...
The rise of the border and surveillance industry and why you …
Apr 20, 2021 · And by 2025, the global border security market is predicted to grow by between 7.2% and 8.6%, reaching a total of $65-68 billion. According to TNI’s report, the border and surveillance industry ...
Communism and democracy – a living legacy | openDemocracy
Apr 27, 2018 · According to classical Marxism, liberal or “bourgeois” democracy is an instrument of class rule that serves to protect private property and to preserve the capitalist system. To create a ...
Meet Britain First: the UK's fastest growing far right group
A number of snap reports in the media took up the growth of this new group, the “phenomena” that is Britain First, with nearly half a million “supporters” on Facebook. It was the same old ...
What are we talking about when we talk about white men?
Oct 15, 2020 · When we talk about the problem of ‘white men’, what we are really talking about are problems with the way we understand what it means to be white and what it means to be a man. The statistics ...
Israel and Palestine: a story of modern colonialism
May 29, 2018 · The old Iqrit. Source: Palestine Remembered. Samer’s powerful story is a rather exceptional one. Unlike Iqrit, many of the areas depopulated in 1948 were either settled by Jewish migrants or ...