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Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Democratic and secular voices in Muslim majority countries have too often been sacrificed by the left in the West in the name of anti-imperialism and identity politics. The authoritarian movements of ...
E.P. Thompson and One Nation Labour- Kenny responds to White & Barnett 27 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
Despite tensions in his outlook over the years, E.P. Thompson's works represent a useful reference point for contemporary debate on progressive patriotism and the nation. Flickr/scatterkeir. Some ...
Going inside, coming out 27 Aug 2013 | 02:46 pm
Before Chelsea Manning rebelled against the order of the US army, others had already done so—the soldiers she exposed. Their insider status has protected them whilst she has functioned as a symbolic s...
David Miranda: terrorist or tourist? 27 Aug 2013 | 01:20 pm
The debate roars on as Theresa May insists the detaining of our citizens is for our own protection, but how far and how deep can this controversy go? Flickr/ukhomeoffice. Some rights reserved. It wa...
Privatised justice and erosion of democracy in the UK 27 Aug 2013 | 12:33 pm
Public service outsourcers G4S and Serco were caught overcharging taxpayers by tens of millions of pounds for tagging and monitoring offenders. What happened next? Justice minister Chris Grayling, ha...
Beirut's schizophrenic identity 26 Aug 2013 | 04:41 pm
The Syrian civil war is spilling into Lebanon and drawing Beirut’s schizophrenic sectarian identity to the surface. War-torn Barakat building, Beirut. Since my first visit to Lebanon in 2009 I have ...
The seeds of a movement: disabled women and their struggle to organize 26 Aug 2013 | 03:09 pm
Up against the male-centric nature of disability theory, and the slowness of women's movements and feminist scholars to address disability as a political issue, disabled women are laying down the basi...
How to win friends and influence the new economy 26 Aug 2013 | 02:55 pm
Loneliness is as strong as smoking or alcohol abuse as an indicator of premature mortality. When Lisa Cook found she had no one to help her put her cat down, she decided to act. She joined a resilienc...
Red tape or a red rag?: the Equality Act in the UK 26 Aug 2013 | 02:27 pm
With austerity measures in full swing, the government's decision to review the duty on state and government bodies to proactively tackle women's inequality in the UK has raised alarm bells amongst lea...
The protests in Turkey: urban warfare in 'rebel cities' 26 Aug 2013 | 12:52 pm
These are democratic protest movements in societies experiencing rapid change where the public’s demand for better services and more democracy at local as well as national levels grow at a faster pace...
