Every year, millions of tons of sand are dredged from seabeds and riverbeds. The sand is then transported across regions and national borders. It is pumped into shallow waters where it is compacted an...

In light of the rise of transnational techno-fascism, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) slogan, “Alles ist möglich!” (“Anything is possible!”), raises questions about the relationship between total fe...

Angesichts des Aufstiegs eines transnationalen Tech-Faschismus wirft der AfD-Slogan „Alles ist möglich!“ Fragen nach dem Verhältnis von totaler Machbarkeit, Pluralität und politischem Handeln auf. Inw...

A wave of resilient coworking spaces is countering the mainstream or neo-corporate model of coworking spaces, as embodied by global franchise chains like WeWork. These spaces have a twofold effect. Fi...

These days, the Jahnsportpark and the neighboring Mauerpark in Berlin have become a battleground over what constitutes a good life. On one side is the picture-perfect embodiment of capitalism, which u...

Democracy does not arise solely in parliaments or institutions – it is created every day wherever people organize their shared lives. Exploring the case of women in Latin America’s housing movements, ...

Technological advances in the AI industry suggest that the world as we know it is coming to an end. Something worse may be emerging, but so is something else. The future may seem pre-programmed, but i...

Since 2017, the Duisburg Model has been part of a statewide program in North Rhine-Westphalia. The program promotes antiziganism by helping municipalities evict residents and acquire and renovate prop...

While Donald Trump’s first term could be seen as an anomaly in U.S. democracy, his second term resembles a systemic upheaval. Fueled by apocalyptic fantasies, society is experiencing an authoritarian ...

In October 2025, during a press conference in Brandenburg, Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz sparked a debate when he claimed that migration causes problems in the Stadtbild (cityscape). Nassim Mehr...

Today’s fascist political forces derive a significant portion of their power from accumulated wealth, which is the product of labor. So why not recognize the working class’s ability to refuse this lab...

As of January 2026, the stocks of seven of the world's most well-known technology companies had reached market capitalizations of about $1 trillion or more. Dubbed the ‘Magnificent Seven,’ their publi...

In order to understand the danger of fascism, we cannot focus solely on its historical manifestations in the 20th century. Fascism is flexible and adaptable. It can take on many different forms within...

The image of summer in Europe is that of a time when we can escape stress and hard work – a break from politics, if you will. Yet, summer has always been political. Nowadays, this ambivalence seems an...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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“...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Although governments in the Americas are expanding their military capabilities to secure capital accumulation and infrastructure development across the continent, captured territory continues to be de...

The famous Paris Commune had a little sister: the Canton of Cartagena. Its neglected history is linked to both the federalist revolution in Spain in 1873 and the colonial and global social protests of...

Models and practices of democracy that exclude illiterate people are inherently elitist and contradictory. Consequently, despite its considerable efforts throughout history to provide workers with pri...

We must defend democracy, not as it currently exists, but by making it a reality. As long as the economy remains outside the realm of democratic control, democracy is intertwined with a destructive, c...

The decline of department stores is part of a broader process of capitalist restructuring, most visibly exemplified by the proliferation of suburban shopping malls and digital commerce. The loss of lo...