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From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
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Exposed: Major U.K. Financier and Conservative Donor Guilty of LIBOR Rigging
Financial authorities in Britain have uncovered that a major financial supporter of the U.K. government, ICAP's CEO Michael Spencer, is closely tied to the LIBOR rate rigging scandal affecting some $360 trillion worldwide.
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Reclaiming the Roadblock, UK Uncut Takes Direct Action Against Austerity
Complementing other British anti-austerity movements in recent years, UK Uncut has proved perhaps the most successful at mobilizing activists from across the country to challenge corporate evasion of taxes.
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Britains Remember Their Victims of Austerity
10,000 white flowers were placed on the green before the U.K. Parliament, each flower representing a person with disability who died within three months of assessment by Atos, a private British healthcare assessor.
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How Nordic Europe Is Guarding the Commons
Nordic Everyman Rights give people in most Scandinavian and Baltic countries guaranteed access to nature's bounty, demonstrating a strong model for reclaiming the commons.
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Direct Democracy in Reykjavík: The Wisdom of the Icelandic Crowd-Sourcers
Better Reykjavík is one of the pioneering direct democracy projects originating from Iceland, enabling people to connect directly with — and help shape — political power, and could be applied far beyond Iceland's shores.
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Occupy Action in London Targets U.K.’s Military Industrial Complex
Occupy vs. the Arms Fair brought together supporters of Occupy and anti-arms trade activists in London to organize against what is described as the "world’s leading defense and security event."
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How the Fracking Church of England Could Further Profit From British Gas
The Church of England’s corporate management asserts it is neither for nor against fracking. But despite this, its legal department undertook measures to ensure they can profit if it goes ahead on its land.
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Stockholm Activist Collective, Strengthened After Firebombing
On November 29, 2008, a leftist Stockholm collective called Cyclopen was bombed and burnt to ashes. Now, after hundreds put in summers of labor and acted through consensus-based decisions, the new gleaming building is set to open.
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Royals and Aristocrats Seek Big Gains From Fracking in Britain
If England's aristocracy and royal family continue to support — and aim to benefit from — fracking, it may be worth focusing more attention on the concentration of land ownership to understand how old money holds the power to frack us all.
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Grow Heathrow: A London Eco-Village Is Creating Energy and Food Alternatives
To the west of London, next to Europe's largest airport, a visit to Grow Heathrow shows an eco-village bustling with organic alternatives as U.K. squatters meanwhile block the airport's expansion.
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The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
The tragic shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is just the latest example of ICE having a fundamental disrespect for human life — further proving why the agency should be stripped of funding and shut down, and its rank-and-file agents and leadership prosecuted.
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
The current wave of food recalls is a direct byproduct of President Donald Trump’s administration deliberately removing the safeguards put in place aimed at protecting American consumers more than a century ago.
From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
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The current wave of food recalls is a direct byproduct of President Donald Trump’s administration deliberately removing the safeguards put in place aimed at protecting American consumers more than a century ago.
Posted 1 month 1 day ago
From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
Posted 1 month 3 days ago
