Als historischer Prozess lässt sich der Katalonienkonflikt mit dem Jurakonflikt (hier klicken) vergleichen. In beiden Fällen geht es um die Integration und Selbstbestimmung einer unzufriedenen Minderheit mit eigener Identität (Katalonien, Jura) in ihrem Verhältnis zum Einheitsstaat (Spanien, Bern). Worin besteht die Unzufriedenheit und woraus entsteht sie? Wieviel […]
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As a historical process the conflict between Catalonia and Spain can be compared to the Jura conflict (click here). Both are about the integration and self-determination of a dissatisfied minority, with its own identity (Catalonia, Jura), in its relationship to a unitary state (Spain, Bern). What is […]
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About the fragility of the revolutionary process. An interview by Andrés Gil with Álvaro García Linera, Vice President of Bolivia. The following is a rough translation into English of the interview that was done in Spanish (see video and Spanish transcript below). What role does an intellectual […]
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EVAN GREER (campaign director of Fight for the Future): So, this is a moment for everyone, whether you’re an ordinary internet user with a few hundred Instagram fans or a major website with hundreds of thousands of daily visitors, to harness the power of the web to […]
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On 18 June 2017 the citizens of Moutier, a small town in the heart of the Jura region in Switzerland, decide on the future of their city, whether to remain in the Canton of Berne or to leave and join the Canton of Jura. The referendum vote […]
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On 4 April 1967 Martin Luther King delivered a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam” in front of over 3,000 people at Rivereside Church in New York City. The speech has lost none of its actuality. The fundamental reality of capitalism and US permanent warfare and what it does […]
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Bei der Suche nach einem Sinn der Brexit-Abstimmung geht es primär weder um Argumente für oder gegen einen Austritt Grossbritanniens aus der Europäischen Union noch um den Versuch zu erklären, warum die Briten für oder gegen den Ausstieg gestimmt haben. Der Sinn ergibt sich auch nicht aus […]
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Seeking a meaning of the Brexit vote is not primarily about arguments for or against Britain leaving the European Union; neither is it is about trying to explain why people voted for Leave (or Remain). It does not concern the consequences of the vote, rather it is […]
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What? Brexit (British exit) refers to the June 23, 2016 popular vote in which a majority of the voters decided that Great Britain should leave the European Union. Who decided to call the popular vote? In 2013 PM David Cameron promised to negotiate a new settlement with […]
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At a public debate about Europe with Slavoj Žižek und Julien Assange the moderator asked Yanis Varoufakis what it would concretely mean to democratize Europe. In his answer Varoufakis focused on three measures: 1) transparency; 2) stabilization; 3) making a constitution for Europe. Interestingly, exactly these three […]
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