Democracy
Teaching students how to dissent is part of democracy
Teaching children how to dissent in response to a violent situation that they feel threatens their well-being is aligned with the purposes of democratic schooling. Indeed, a flourishing democracy depends on such an informed and active citizenry who will speak out when they find laws to be unjust. by … »
Tribulations in Catalonia: a wedding and several funerals
Diary of a poor mortal in Catalonia. Saturday, December 23, 2017. Once again we have returned to vote. How good democracy feels! Now all that is missing is that there are no politicians imprisoned or charged for being in favour of the right to decide, that the president elected by… »
Study on Municipalism in Spain for RLS-NYC
By Vicente Rubio-Pueyo, A few months ago, I had the honor of being commissioned by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-NYC Office for writing a study on Municipalism in Spain for their publication series. It was released yesterday and it can be downloaded here in English and Spanish: http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/municipalism-in-spain/ This study… »
The Right wins in Catalonia, but nationalists will form the government
Franco’s youth wing, Ciudadanos (Citizens), prevailed in the Catalan elections called after the Spanish government dissolved the autonomous government after its unilateral declaration of independence. With a very high turnout of almost 82% of the electorate, Citizens obtained 25.48% of the votes, equivalent to 37 seats. Since to form a… »
Chile: the humanist parliamentary bloc “with both feet in the street”
“Don’t expect this bloc to be stuck in parliament. We will have both feet and all our soul on the streets”. With these words by Deputy Pamela Jiles, the first press gathering with the Humanist Party bloc took place in Santiago. Besides the distinguished journalist were also gathered two other… »
Brexiters, beware: if the ties that bind us unravel, tyranny may soon follow
By George Monbiot for The Guardian Public projects such as the NHS, BBC and social security define us as a nation. Without that cohesion, authoritarianism could flourish. So what is this country we are asked to love? This might once have been an easy question to answer. National identity… »
The twilight of the (pseudo)idols and the dawn of the Internal Guide
Few times I felt when reading the works of a philosopher the ire and venom distilled by Nietzsche in The Twilight of the Idols. Here we have a very angry thinker, I mused. My mistake was, of course, to assume that philosophers are intellectually and emotionally detached people. I was… »
Ada Colau: Not in my name
By Ada Colau [1] Talking so much about the train crash on conditional or in the future, it is hard to assimilate that today is the day. A decade of neglect of the Popular Party in Catalonia ends up today with the approval of the Senate of Article 155. »
DiEM25: the courage to imagine and to the transform the EU
On Saturday, 9th of September, the week before the official speech by Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission, on the State of the European Union, DiEM25[1] was in BOZAR theatre, Brussels, to show another vision of the European Union. The event brought together politicians and academics,… »
The Unnoticed Demise of Democracy
By Roberto Savio* Politicians are so busy fighting for their jobs, they hardly seem to notice that they risk going out of business. Democracy is on the wane, yet the problem is nowhere in Parliaments. Common to all is a progressive loss of vision, of… »
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