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By Matthijs Gardenier and Arthur Groz The activity of the French far right outside traditional parties seems to depend to a large extent on the current political situation. Several social movement strategies can be identified among French far-right groups. The first...
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By Laurence Cox and the ULEX Project As the Global North (only) starts to move towards the end of the pandemic, global heating is still intensifying; a rising tide of authoritarian governments and far-right groups threatens democracy and movements around the...
Simin Fadaee26 Feb 2021
Note: This piece was first published on Discover Society. Farmers and agricultural workers have been blocking numerous entry points at the borders of New Delhi for more than a month. They travelled from great distances to India’s capital by tractors, buses and on...
Yun-Tong Tang19 Feb 2021
Violent clashes with police, storming the legislature, vandalizing properties in the parliamentary building …… All these happened in the United States, one of the most well-established democratic states in the world. The event in the US Capitol shocked the world and...
Yun-Tong Tang13 Jun 2019
In September 2014, hundreds of thousands of protesters in Hong Kong went onto the street, standing up against the Chinese National People’s Congress’s decision to bar Hong Kong from having a free and fair universal suffrage. Protesters occupied the roads around the...
Simin Fadaee8 Jan 2019
NB This blog post was first published on openDemocracy, as part of the openMovements series (29 July 2018). The major transformative potential of permaculture in India lies in its ability to make small-scale farmers self-sufficient. Hence, it offers viable solutions...
