‘No Land! No House! No Vote!’ Lessons from South Africa’s Shack Settlements · BG | berlinergazette.de

Twenty years ago, shack dwellers in Durban founded Abahlali baseMjondolo, which is now the largest movement of poor people in post-apartheid South Africa. Its members practice a ‘living politics’ of a...

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How Autocracies Govern: Understanding the Tools of the Regime · BG | berlinergazette.de

Autocratic regimes govern by using isolation, fragmentation, and predictability as their tools. Exploring the case of Georgia, Aia Beraia argues that a society must recognize these conditions and repl...

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Care Work Is Confrontation: Universities Between Precarization and Polarization · BG | berlinergazette.de

To combat fascism and preserve the achievements of progressive politics, we need strong institutions. These institutions are essential for protecting fundamental rights and ensuring access to basic ne...

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Repression in Russia: When Cultural Self-Determination Becomes a Security Issue · BG | berlinergazette.de

A wave of arrests in Russia has brought issues of cultural identity, indigenous peoples’ rights, and the economic relationship between the center and the periphery into sharp focus. But why is the Kre...

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Yugoslavia as a Future to Fear: Evangelical Anti-Communism and the Cold War Imagination of Yugoslavia · BG | berlinergazette.de

For some, Yugoslavia represented an alternative form of socialist modernity. Others, especially those within conservative religious discourse, believed that socialism inevitably leads to moral collaps...

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Reducing Working Hours? Towards the Democratic Appropriation of Time · BG | berlinergazette.de

Every hour that we work less is one hour more that we have for political and democratic engagement, one hour more to take a breath and one hour more to discover our individual and shared interests. Th...

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Ten Years of the Same Script: Anti-Romani Eviction Policies in Duisburg · BG | berlinergazette.de

In Duisburg, police spatial control and evictions under building codes are implemented as parallel mechanisms that have been jointly developed and coordinated for the past ten years. These mechanisms ...

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Energy Transition in Colombia: Unions Fight for Energy Democratization and an Alternative Economy · BG | berlinergazette.de

Colombia’s energy unions view the transition as an opportunity for structural change. Their central objectives are reindustrialization aimed at achieving energy and food sovereignty and water justice....

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Are Data Centers Factories? Industrial Promises and Socio-Ecological Losses · BG | berlinergazette.de

Amid the planetary polycrisis – which is, among other things, a crisis of capital – AI data centers appear to be one of the last places offering opportunities for secure capital accumulation. In this ...

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‘Democracy’ Is not the Word for What We Want, but There Is no Other · BG | berlinergazette.de

Why do we clamor so desperately for ‘democracy’? In her “Deep Democracy” contribution, Sanem Su Avci argues that the word’s symbolic force stems from the history of modern domination – a legacy that c...

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Earthy Governance: How to Learn about Democracy from Indigenous Peoples? · BG | berlinergazette.de

In light of the planetary polycrisis, it is time to challenge the dominant strand of Western thought that asserts only humans possess rights and that other species exist solely for human benefit. In t...

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Austerity Kills – Still: The Lingering Effects of Austerity Measures on Greece’s Healthcare System · BG | berlinergazette.de

When the consequences of the 2007-08 global financial crisis began to be felt in Greece, the upheavals were not perceived as a possible future within the EU. However, given the current expansion of au...

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Demokratische Handlungsfähigkeit: Können wir das ökonomische System, das den Planeten zerstört, rekodieren? · BG | berlinergazette.de

Ein dauerhafter Kriegszustand breitet sich aus und der Autoritarismus nimmt zu. Damit einher geht der Zusammenbruch liberaler, demokratischer Institutionen. In ihrem Beitrag zur Reihe „Deep Democracy“...

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Making Babies, Making Money: Reproductive Bioeconomies in Neo-Authoritarian Capitalism · BG | berlinergazette.de

Reproductive technologies and their associated forms of commodification and profit-making emerged in the 1980s. Since then, these technologies have evolved into a global fertility industry that consti...

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Military Dictatorship in Brazil, Armed Resistance, and the Political Unconscious · BG | berlinergazette.de

In her discussion of two recent films from Brazil, “I’m Still Here” and “The Secret Agent”, Bruna Della Torre detects a partial erasure of the history of the Left. This erasure relieves the present of...

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The Alternative University: Higher Education as a Tool for Democracy? · BG | berlinergazette.de

In the face of the planetary polycrisis, anyone who wishes to speak of social transformation and democratization cannot avoid addressing the role of higher education. Education, in general, and higher...

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Lost in Securitization: Migration, Race, and Death at Europe’s Eastern Border · BG | berlinergazette.de

This year marks the fifth anniversary of the start of the ‘border crisis’ in Poland’s eastern borderlands and, consequently, the eastern border of the European Union. Kasia Narkowicz places this ‘bord...

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Students Against Mining: What Does the Student Movement in Serbia Have in Common with Anti-Extractivism? · BG | berlinergazette.de

For almost a year and half, one of the largest student movements in Europe has been transforming Serbia’s society. The protests, which have drawn hundreds of thousands of people, are not just a form o...

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Beyond Hunger Inc.: Building Solidarity Based on the Right to Food · BG | berlinergazette.de

Corporate-backed food aid programs have become the standard response to hunger. However, Kayleigh Garthwaite argues that we must recognize these programs as a symptom of the systemic failures that pro...

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Organizing Contradictions: How to Reignite a Debate About Ways to Overcome Capitalism? · BG | berlinergazette.de

To overcome capitalism, we must accept the magnitude of the task at hand and abandon certain illusions. We should engage with the political goals of classical socialists, such as the rule of the class...

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From Abya Yala to Kurdistan: Women Struggle Against the Destruction of Life · BG | berlinergazette.de

An international meeting was held in Bogotá to expand the global women’s and feminist movement. The goal was to discuss alternatives to the intertwined forces of capitalism, colonialism, and patriarch...

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Bonya vs. Putin: When a Beauty Blogger Stands Up to the Kremlin · BG | berlinergazette.de

A viral moment tends to spark political hope. But does it ultimately reveal more about the desire for change than the likelihood of it? Regzena Erdyneeva discusses the reception and impact of a viral ...

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Direct Democracy and Protest Movements: Towards the Democratic Protagonism of the Working Masses · BG | berlinergazette.de

In the capitalist system, economic processes are separated from democratic oversight, and the concept of a self-regulating market prevails. When the economy determines the living conditions of the maj...

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Ukraine’s Sovereignty Movement, Donbas Miners’ Strikes, and Democracy-Building · BG | berlinergazette.de

The practice of democracy does not necessarily occur within the institutions that comprise a democratic state. In light of this, it is important to examine some of the less obvious moments in the hist...

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Feminist Housing Policy: Socializing Living Space, Democratizing Care · BG | berlinergazette.de

Feminist housing policy, including the demand for socialization, should not be viewed as an additional adjustment to existing housing policy instruments. Rather, it strives for a structural transformation of social reproduction relations. This shift in perspective moves the focus from market power to social reproduction, from heteronormative household norms to collective care arrangements, and from protecting private property to exercising democratic control over housing, as Paulina Domke and Janne Martha Lentz argue in their contribution to the “Deep Democracy” series.

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Who Decides? How to Transform Society Through Self-Management · BG | berlinergazette.de

Deepening democracy means answering an elementary question: Who decides the conditions of our shared life? The notion of self-management asserts that those who produce and maintain society should coll...

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The Lost Art of Making a Revolution: Why Are Radical Political Protests Followed by Bitter Disillusionment? · BG | berlinergazette.de

In recent years, every enthusiastic mass mobilization has inevitably been followed by bitter disillusionment. However, the improvement of repressive techniques and the overwhelming legacy of structure...

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Mainstreaming the Far Right, Entrenching Neoliberalism: Italy’s Political Laboratory From Berlusconi to Meloni · BG | berlinergazette.de

Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet is now one of the most stable governments in the history of the Italian Republic. This seems to disprove the widespread warnings of an impending decline in democracy that acco...

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In the Ruins of Progress: Repositioning Democracy as An Everyday Practice · BG | berlinergazette.de

To mitigate, if not halt, the catastrophic escalation of the planetary polycrisis, we must counteract market and state relations by strengthening social relationships. This requires a democratic appro...

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Calculating ‘War-Readiness’: The Militarization of Healthcare Between Affirmation and Resistance · BG | berlinergazette.de

The militarization of society has not spared the healthcare system. Hospitals and medical staff are being made ‘fit for war.’ This regressive social transformation, driven by the war effort, is met wi...

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