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The reasonable compromises of Ed Miliband, Mike Rustin

Stuart Hall's (2003) article New Labour's Double Shuffle, one of the most influential critiques of the last government. Its argument was that New Labour was essentially pursuing policies oriented to the furtherance of the agenda of...

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oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of September 27th, 2010, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss

Unheard Voices Project Trailer Released

Ahead of his much anticipated two month, 30 city tour of the US and UK, which will see openDemocracy editor Charles Shaw gather interviews with nearly 60 people for the first phase of the Unheard Voices...

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Thoughts on the Jewish boat to Gaza, Lynne Segal

How many warships does it take to intercept one small boat, with 9 unarmed passengers? 10 apparently! One for each passenger, and two for the 82-year-old Holocaust survivor. Did we need yet another boat provoking confrontation on the high seas...

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Ukraine: don’t ask who killed Georgiy Gongadze , Alexa Chopivsky

On a September evening in 2000, Ukrainian investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze, 31, the married father of twin three-year-old daughters, left hiscolleague’s home on a central Kyiv street. He hopped into a car, thinking it was a taxi...

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Let Dialogue begin, Ramtin Hajimonshi

What has prompted the launch of our new democracy and human rights network,Dialogue?

It is his or her experience of life that shapes someone’s understanding of democracy and human rights. I have had the opportunity to live under both a...

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Surveillance does not make us safe , Henry Porter

This is a contribution to a seminar held to accompany the Tate Modern's Exhibition Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera.

There is a man living in Carlisle called Christian Lord. Until this summer his name was as unblemished as it...

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Human rights and openDemocracy – a conversation, Rosemary Bechler

In our nine years of existence since May 2001, we have always believed that there is an intimate relationship between good communication and human rights.

There has always been injustice. But it was when modern communication technologies opened up...

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