Oppositions are reviled, NGOs banned, criticism is prosecuted as treason: worldwide, the spaces for emancipatory politics are being deliberately pared away.

Another reason for the failure of the government project of the Workers’ Party (PT) was the media monopoly of the old elites. Antonio Martins’ discussion portal Outras Palavras supports left-wing points of view.

Interview with Nader G. Attar from medico’s Egyptian partner organization Center for Refugee Solidarity.

A diversified movement has conquered the streets.

Civil society organisations like the El Nadeem Centre for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture are under growing pressure.

Symposium about externalisation and regionalisation of migration and refugee policy, 23 February 2016, Berlin

For the right to demand peace at times of war. Academics from all over the world defend their colleagues in Turkey.

It is good and just to give homeless people shelter for the night, wrote Bertolt Brecht. He added, however, that this will not change the world, or shorten the age of exploitation.

The movement Migrante Mesoamericano is providing support to migrants transiting Mexico. Marta Sánchez Soler emphasises the political character of this aid.

Over the course of the past 14 years, the European Union and its member states have gone to great lengths to expand the reinforcement of the union’s external borders.