Politics

Bernie Sanders on Saturday crisscrossed Southern California with rallies at Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and at the Kern County Fairgrounds. Aiming to speak to more than 200,000 Californians during the month before the June 7 presidential primary election, Sanders already…

John McDonnell, shadow chancellor Zoe Gardner, migrants’ rights activist Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary Caroline Hill, Young Labour chair

Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP Owen Jones, author and activist Clive Lewis, shadow climate minister Anthony Barnett, openDemocracy Sirio Canós Donnay, Podemos Neal Lawson, Compass

openDemocracy founder Anthony Barnett discusses DiEM25, Brexit and European democracy with Yanis Varoufakis. Recorded at the Another Europe is Possible event in London, 28 May 2016.

Anti-incumbency waves against the 15 year old Congress government at Dispur, roaring assurances over curbing in Bangladeshi (read Muslim) migrants and the fast-pace of developments and more were a few of the main reasons that influenced the electorate of Assam…

President-elect Rodrigo Duterte or, Duterte Harry to some, is early into his run-up to real power and the China Matters blog – chinamatters@prlee.org gives some highly detailed context to what’s coming next and why it’s most interesting, given local and…

Human Wrongs Watch By Baher Kamal* ISTANBUL, Turkey , May 22 2016 (IPS) – The African Union (AU) representing 54 countries and home to 1,2 billion inhabitants, will be in Istanbul to participate in the May 23-24, 2016, first-ever World…

By Inka, NoTTIP TEXT AND IMAGES PROVIDED BY TIM FLITCROFT Monday May 16th saw Day of Actions Against CETA by anti TTIP activists who joined allies from across Atlantic to kickstart the campaign in the centre of London. Our message:…

In this interview with the former finance minister of Greece and founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025), Yanis Varoufakis, a host of issues are discussed which  include privatization, human rights, media, his experience with the EU and capitalism’s…

The rumor had been spread over the past 20 days concerning the final decision for the evacuation of Idomeni. In the meantime the Greek Ministry of Health carried out a voluntary vaccination campaign in cooperation with NGOs that are dealing…