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  • An illustration showing a man in a suit running away from two different hats – one a top hat the other a Russian Communist Party hat – trying to trap him

    Maidan over: The balance of power in Ukraine

    While Ukraine’s oligarchic elite aspires to become a ruling class, it is also the object of an ongoing competition between Russia and the west to draw it into their respective transnational capitalist classes, writes Marko Bojcun

  • A tent with cardboard signs reading in Turkish that it is a veterinarian clinic

    ‘In Gezi Park there is free food, medical care, a kids’ area and a library’

    Ece Bulut gives us the latest from Istanbul’s Gezi Park, and looks at how the movement is organising – and changing people

  • Street grafitti in Burkina Faso depicting Thomas Sankara and reading 'Justice for Sankara' in French

    Thomas Sankara: an African leader with a message for Europe

    On the 25th anniversary of Sankara’s assassination, Nick Dearden argues we need to remember him to challenge dominant views of Africa and fight our own debt crisis in Europe

  • Italiano: Silvio Berlusconi al Grand Hotel Trento per la campagna elettorale delle elezioni provinciali. Credit: Niccolò Caranti

    Beyond Berlusconi

    Populist, authoritarian, xenophobic and sustained in office by a corrupt electoral system – but Silvio Berlusconi’s government isn’t the only one in Europe that can be described this way

  • Former US President Bill Clinton (right) shaking hands with a man (left) at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany

    The dangers of Atlanticism

    Atlanticism is the Achilles’ heel of European security, self-identity and collective will, argues John Williams

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