Tag: Far right
Alma Gottlieb , January 12th, 2021
1. The moment that any transfer of power occurs from one individual or regime to another is fraught—ritually, sociologically, emotionally. Why? This is a liminal period–“betwix…

Ned Richardson-Little , February 19th, 2020
Are the “East Germans” just bad democrats who mourn the GDR? And is the “West” completely blameless in the Erfurt debacle? Not at all — while Thüringen’s politics…
Focaal Web Editor , December 12th, 2018
“Polish leaders marched with the far right” was perhaps the most common description of the massive demonstration that took place in Warsaw on National Independence Day, 11 November….
Alexandra Frankel , May 18th, 2017
Protesters disrupt Pegida-inspired rallies with their own rowdy demonstrations. The sound of a man yelling rapidly and angrily into a microphone pierced the silence in my car as…

Alma Gottlieb , January 23rd, 2017
(photo by Alma Gottlieb) The doors of our metro car opened and closed, opened and closed with increasingly alarming dysfunction. On any other day, the many more dozens…

Vito Laterza , June 22nd, 2016
Tomorrow the British will go to the polls to decide whether UK should stay within the European Union or not. I truly hope that the majority will vote…

Vito Laterza , May 27th, 2016
Check out my latest piece on Sanders and the US presidential race, published by openDemocracy on 26th May. Here is a short summary: “The US presidential primaries have…
Vito Laterza , December 7th, 2015
Very bad results in France’s regional elections: exit polls set xenophobic far right Front National (FN) first nationwide with over 30% of the votes; Sarkozy’s centre-right Republicans at…

Alma Gottlieb , October 11th, 2015
An impressively interdisciplinary team of geneticists, biological anthropologists, archaeologists, and geologists has just published an article detailing the genetic makeup of a man who lived in Ethio…