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Ending fascists’ grip on power not only requires voting them out, but replacing them with the right people.
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Syrian Refugees March and Occupy to Demand Asylum in Switzerland
Syrian refugees impatient with foot-dragging by Swiss authorities to grant them legal status have been braving the autumnal chill in an improvised camp out front of the migration office in Bern.
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“We Are Gone and Yet We Remain”: The Last Days of Zurich's Binz Squat
As tensions continue to rise around housing rights in Switzerland, one Zurich squat’s struggle was derailed at a critical moment by violence.
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In Zurich, and Across Europe, Squatter Communities Are Strengthening
Last weekend, 4,000 supporters of Binz, Zurich’s longest-established squat, were met with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons when a party turned into a march to protest their imminent eviction.
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"Thank God for the Fascists": A Dispatch from Weimar Greece
The "revolutionary infrastructure" of Athens's volatile neighborhood Exarcheia appears now to be gearing itself towards resisting, if not literally fighting, fascist violence and providing refuge for its victims.
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Dispatch from Greece: Meeting the "Antagonist" Movements
A visitor encounters Exarcheia, a hotbed of political activity, a bulwark against state power - and now an entire zone of Athens where police and those of the "wrong political persuasion" just don’t go.
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Switzerland's Immigration Crackdown Reveals an E.U. in Crisis
Despite Switzerland's outward stability, there is fear in the air as Europe seems to be falling apart around us.
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Should a New Revolution Rely Solely on New Media?
Online news distribution has a tendency to isolate rather than integrate, to provide the illusion of political activity where there is none.
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There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”
Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.
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Ending fascists’ grip on power not only requires voting them out, but replacing them with the right people.
Gerontocracy endangers democracy.
One pressing question is how the worldwide outrage might, and could, spread to his other business interests, not least his largest interest: SpaceX.
There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”
In many European countries, the far right holds or shares power. Democracy is in crisis.
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Yarvin saw the “red pill” as the realization that the Enlightenment ideals he came to associate with “the cathedral” and democracy are actually a poison leading to societal decadence and decline.
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As the American public continues to publicly stand up to the administration, Trump’s grip on power will eventually slip.
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It is clear that authoritarian fascists, in the United States and elsewhere, do not want education that promotes critical thinking.
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There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”
Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.
