Open Democracy

Open Democracy is an independent global media platform covering world affairs, ideas and culture which seeks to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world. It receives some 8 million views a year. It is supported by many foundations and universities, as well as individual donations. The editor-in-chief is Mary Fitzgerald.

Climate Change

Changing the Climate Conversation: School Strikes are a Start, but we Need Bank Boycotts and other New Tactics

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Strengthening the climate movement requires a rethink of strategy and tactics

Algeria

Veiling and Revolutions: From Algeria to Sudan

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By Ouissal Harize | – (OpenDemcocracy) – With women leading revolutions in Sudan and Algeria, it is natural to wonder again, will Arab uprisings be finished by women? In his famous essay, ‘Algeria Unveiled’, Frantz Fanon (1959, p. 35) writes: ‘The way people clothe themselves, together with the traditions of dress and finery that custom […]

Donald Trump

Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian fundamentalists boost European Far Right with Dark Money Millions

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By Claire Provost and Adam Ramsay | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – US Christian right ‘fundamentalists’ linked to the Trump administration and Steve Bannon are among a dozen American groups that have poured at least $50 million of ‘dark money’ into Europe over the last decade, openDemocracy can reveal today. Between them, these groups have backed […]

Feminism

‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’

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In Europe, we’re seeing rising right-wing populism

Syria

As Trump Gets out of Syria & Afghanistan will Mercenaries & Blackwater Come In?

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By Paul Rogers | – At the end of 2003 the United States-led war in Iraq was going badly wrong. It had started so well from the Pentagon’s perspective, as American troops entered Baghdad within weeks of launching the invasion in late March. The regime crumbled and a statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled. The […]

Far Right

The Antisemitic Turn of the Rising Far Right ‘Alternative for Germany’ Party

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The AfD wants to use Israel to exploit the false notion that whoever is pro-Israel could not be antisemitic

Left Politics

Bernie Sanders & Yanis Varoufakis call for Progressive Front against Trump’s Neo-Fascist International

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By Luis Martín | – Via OpenDemocracy.net Calling on progressives worldwide to form an international movement to combat the rise of authoritarianism represented by Donald Trump. Senator Bernie Sanders, the former US presidential candidate, and Yanis Varoufakis, co-founder of DiEM25, are today calling on progressives worldwide to form an international movement to combat the rise […]