When the Youth took the Squares…

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The so-called Spanish Revolution movement that has peacefully taken over the Spanish squares in the last weeks has voiced a clear demand of our times, which many citizens across Europe share: more open, effective and closer democratic institutions. However, it is not so much the democratic reform requests and proposals that this platform has put [...]

There Is No Third Way: Why Social Democrats Must Be Anti-Capitalists

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If social democracy has a future, then it can only lie in fully accepting the lessons of its own past, both distant and recent. Today, almost exactly twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is surely clear that the record of reforming governments before and after that momentous event has belied many [...]