Archive: Opinion

Blood on Europe’s hands: EU complicity in financing authoritarianism and forced displacement in the MENA region

Opinion

20.06.2024

The EU’s liberal political establishment has been eroding the rights of migrants and refugees over the last decade

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Takeaway from the European elections: We need to talk about capitalism

Opinion

17.06.2024

We have to look at capitalism with its neoliberal reform policies as the root cause of the decline of our societies into authoritarianism

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The banality of democracy

Opinion

7.06.2024

What makes our democracies banal isn’t the conscious use of evil methods to silence freedom of speech, it’s how the system practises evil in a ...

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The European ‘patient’: EU Parliament and the dilemma of the citizen

Opinion

3.06.2024

In view of the European Elections on June 9, one wonders what the motivations are for going to the polls

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Rosa Luxemburg: The struggle against opportunism and reformism

Opinion

24.05.2024

Luxemburg symbolised, for young people especially, opposition against class compromise in Germany

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Where are those who stand against censorship and cancel culture now?

Opinion

22.05.2024

Where is the indignation against the blocking of journalists who want to cover the war and the occupation? Where is the revolt against the real ...

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Hey, boss, leave those kids alone

Opinion

13.05.2024

In Portugal, let's not turn our young people into a cheap alternative source of profit, like the Netherlands is doing

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The EU’s new ecocide law may still let environmental criminals get away with it

Opinion

8.05.2024

The EU passed a law that criminalises actions “comparable to ecocide” but some limitations in the definition may undermine grounds for prosecution

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Neoliberalism and the far-right: The alliance of discontent

Opinion

30.04.2024

The rise of Chega is not just the result of an intolerant, racist and xenophobic Portugal, it is above all the result of neoliberal economic ...

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