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Russian regional elections: business as usual, Elena Strelnikova - “Well I think they’re right to go on strike!!!! - “What’s the point?!! The government will take whatever decision it wants, whether they strike or not. And the French are still going to have to work for an extra two years.” -... Read more » Revolution in the blogosphere: Tom Harris and Eric Joyce in controversy , Gerry Hassan Two significant moments in the British political blogosphere: Tom Harris’s declaration that he is retiring from writing a blog, and Eric Joyce’s attack on voters as ‘liars’ and then subsequent qualification/semi-withdrawal. Harris and Joyce... Read more » PPP pushers: why can't the EBRD stop?, Fidanka Bacheva-McGrath The economic crisis has starkly exposed the perils of accumulating hidden debt commitments through public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure, with their enticing promises of ‘build now, pay later’. Yet the European Bank for... Read more » The balance sheet on Labour's 13 years: so much good, such an opportunity lost - Toynbee and Walker reviewed , Pat Thane As Polly Toynbee and David Walker round off their running audit of Labour’s record, Pat Thane considers the many ‘good things’ Labour governments achieved and the weaknesses that undermined them Polly Toynbee and David Walker, The Verdict. Did... Read more » The Anishinabe and an unsung nonviolent victory in late twentieth-century Wisconsin , Tom H.Hastings In spring of 1986 I got a call from Walter Bresette, a Red Cliff Anishinabe (aka Anishinabeg, Ojibwa, Ojibwe, Chippewa) native American. Walter was a treaty rights leader for the 13 bands of Lake Superior Ojibwa and he said to me: “Get a... Read more » People power and the new global ferment, Stellan Vinthagen We live in a time of historic social change, a time of ‘people power’. As expected, conventional news media have not understood this. More surprisingly, most alternative media as well as authors and academics also don’t see it. Still, it is... Read more » Learning how to hug a Tory and the folklore of anti-Toryism , Gerry Hassan It has been a strange old week. Controversial Tory-Lib Dem welfare reforms have been announced. Angry students have protested, some rioted and some taken direct action. The hoary old battle cries of ‘Tory cuts’ and ‘Tory scum’ have again... Read more » Time for the human approach , Javier Solana and Mary Kaldor Recently, there has been much talk of a ‘reset’ in the West’s relations with Russia. It was started by President Obama but has been taken up by President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel and, in the last week, by the Secretary General of... Read more » openDemocracy RECOMMENDS Don't Shoot the Clowns Jo Wilding Best Price £1.09 or Buy New £6.74   • View comments • openDemocracy NEWS openDemocracy event London: oD author Charles Shaw asks 'Who's addicted to the War on Drugs?' You are invited to join Charles Shaw, openDemocracy author and activist and acclaimed documentary maker and criminologist, Roger Graef for an evening of discussion and testimony of drugs policy and criminal justice on: 7pm, Tuesday 16 November...   •
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