From top to bottom: German net private wealth; wealth of top 10% (who own 63% of all wealth); wealth of poorest 10% A group of German trades unions, academics, and militants have attempted to seize back the clock as a powerful mode of political expression with their...
Democracy means dissent, distrust and resistance According to classical theory, the roots of democracy are in consensus. The truth, however, is quite the opposite. Experience has shown us that the key to democracy lays elsewhere; in the capacity to accept and even...
The road to Doima (Colombia), at best unpaved and bumpy, is today crossed by rivers in flood. The rivers have submerged the low concrete bridges and at the second bridge the river is so high the bus has to stop and wait for the waters to subside. The rainstorm that...
History repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce, Marx wrote in his Eighteenth Brumaire. This famous remark fits well to the current situation in Slovenia, when the country experiences the largest protests since 1989. The person standing in the centre of...
During the closing months of 2012, Slovenia has seen a series of mass popular protests. Thirty thousand demonstrators gathered on November 17 for the first protest, organised by trade unions, students, and organisations of retired people and artists. Dozens of...
“Normal men do not know that everything is possible” – David Rousset1As quoted in Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism 1951. The movie Compliance2Directed by Craig Zobel, Magnolia Pictures (2012). For a trailer and summary of the plot see...
