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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  The bitter lessons of Olof Palme's murder

  Published on: 18 June 2020

  Written by: Pierre Schori All articles by Pierre Schori

  There is a morbid link between the effects of extreme hatred in Palme's days and today´s vicious propaganda and fake...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Slimy knowledge

  Published on: 18 June 2020

  Written by: Iain Galbraith All articles by Iain Galbraith

  Singly emitted particles seem not only able to pass through two holes simultaneously but to have an awareness of...

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  Published in: 50.50: Opinion

  Italy, it’s time to confront your own rampant racism

  Published on: 17 June 2020

  Written by: Nadeesha Uyangoda All articles by Nadeesha Uyangoda

  While Italians support Black Lives Matter in the US, we must look closer to home – at our own language, colonial...

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  Published in: Countering the Radical Right

  How COVID-19 deflated the Austrian populist radical right

  Published on: 16 June 2020

  Written by: Hans-Georg Betz All articles by Hans-Georg Betz

  COVID-19 has fundamentally altered the logic of Austrian politics as refugees and the question of Islam in Austrian...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  The need to contextualise monuments, avoiding indifference and ambiguity

  Published on: 15 June 2020

  Written by: Alessio Colonnelli All articles by Alessio Colonnelli

  Controversial statues should be dealt with according to their individual contexts.

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Antifascist culture in isolation

  Published on: 15 June 2020

  Written by: Moritz Föllmer All articles by Moritz Föllmer

  After 1933, a left-wing culture that had encompassed socialist workers, artists and intellectuals alike was driven...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  France is free to demonstrate again – well, nearly

  Published on: 15 June 2020

  Written by: Chris Myant All articles by Chris Myant

  “ The rally on the afternoon of Saturday 13 June was intended to proceed from La République to the Opéra… we were...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  France gives a little over George Floyd

  Published on: 10 June 2020

  Written by: Chris Myant All articles by Chris Myant

  “That excruciating eight and a half minute long video of George Floyd's slow, gasping passage from life to oblivion...

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  Published in: ourEconomy: Opinion

  Curtain time for an EU budget without fossil fuels

  Published on: 9 June 2020

  Written by: Raphael Hanoteaux All articles by Raphael Hanoteaux

  Europe’s trillion euro budget can drive the European Green Deal, but only if it excludes spending on fossil fuels.

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  Published in: Home

  Hart Island: New York City’s dark shadow

  Published on: 9 June 2020

  Written by: Owen Clayton All articles by Owen Clayton

  Being Hart Island, the proposed park – given the racist title ‘Negro Coney Island’ – was to be solely for black...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Four invisible enemies in the first pandemic of a “datafied society”

  Published on: 8 June 2020

  Written by: Stefania Milan All articles by Stefania Milan

  Written by: Philip Di Salvo All articles by Philip Di Salvo

  COVID-19 lays bare the nuances of a society undergoing digital data transformation in nearly every field of human...

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  Published in: ourEconomy

  How big polluters are profiting from European public aid

  Published on: 4 June 2020

  Written by: Alfons Pérez All articles by Alfons Pérez

  Written by: Nicola Scherer All articles by Nicola Scherer

  The EU recovery programme is at odds with its planned European Green Deal.

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  Published in: openMovements

  We are all in this together: from global pandemic to global solidarities

  Published on: 2 June 2020

  Written by: Giuseppe Caruso All articles by Giuseppe Caruso

  To be effective, social movements’ actions must be grounded in effective organisational dynamics and democratic...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Dismantling democracy – the right to be entertained

  Published on: 2 June 2020

  Written by: Karolina Wigura All articles by Karolina Wigura

  Written by: Jarosław Kuisz All articles by Jarosław Kuisz

  It is not enough any more to call populists names. Calling them fascists has ceased to make any impression on many...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  The unique experience of St Nazaire

  Published on: 2 June 2020

  Written by: Chris Myant All articles by Chris Myant

  France will be hit hard for its loyalty to the resource-guzzling monsters of modern industrialism.

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  Published in: Countering the Radical Right

  The radical right is exploiting a Swedish teen’s murder

  Published on: 2 June 2020

  Written by: Michael Colborne All articles by Michael Colborne

  The tale concocted about Tommie Lindh’s death has become an excuse to target minorities, particularly Muslims, with violence.

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  Published in: Home

  Splinters: June – short essays on the here & now

  Published on: 1 June 2020

  Written by: Splinters collective All articles by Splinters collective

  This month: Whatever happened to Dunkirk spirit?...SLIMY KNOWLEDGE... Endgame?... The Fire of Moscow.

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  Published in: openDemocracyUK

  Number 10 must lift briefing ban on openDemocracy, says European press freedom watchdog

  Published on: 29 May 2020

  Written by: Adam Bychawski All articles by Adam Bychawski

  Government accused of attempting to “isolate and punish critical coverage” by boycotting media outlets.

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  Published in: Home

  The gift of Covid-19

  Published on: 29 May 2020

  Written by: Samir Gandesha All articles by Samir Gandesha

  The gift can be regarded as a brutal lesson in the inescapable universalism – a trembling fragility and profound...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?: Opinion

  Achille Mbembe and the fantasy of separation

  Published on: 29 May 2020

  Written by: Jonathan Lanz All articles by Jonathan Lanz

  The latest German uproar exposes a core cleavage in Holocaust memory.