From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the second Iraqi War, the word “freedom” arguably meant theft, neocolonization, military invasion, torture and uprooting. But democracy should be taken back and made to serve a politics of the alternative.

Either Europe will be reinvented as a radically new political space, or it will perish, argues Etienne Balibar in these theses

Rosi Braidotti is a prominent scholar of gender studies and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. She has explored the notion of “nomadism”, which has become the key concept for the development of an extremely rich and original research, varying from poststructuralism, to the history of feminism, to ethics.

The plight of migrants, the ‘globalisation’ of the human condition, poses again the question of solidarity and demands a response of planetary ambition and responsibility.

The degree of racism in a country is an indicator for the level of its internal crisis. In Italy, where this rate is rising dangerously, it is necessary to continue along the route marked by the events of the first of March.

Interview with Samir Amin, whose latest book riasserts the necessity to resort to a critical utopia in order to understand the world and find alternatives to overcome capitalism.

A cruise boat filled with Italians is expected to sail from Barcelona to arrive in Genoa the 26th June 2010; a new transnational type of protest against the present political, social and economic conditions in Italy.

An artistic and political project carried out by European Alternatives in London, Athens, Belgrade and Zagreb over Autumn 2009.

The ‘democratic deficit’ in the European Union is one of the few things that almost everyone knows about it. We have started a campaign for the Parliament to insist that it has the dominant role in deciding the policies of the Union.

In this series of events organised in partnership with the LSE Forum for European Philosophy we invite thought provokers thinkers and scholars to reflect on key questions concerning the status of citizenship, the relations between Europe and the rest of the world and the question of the status of the migrant to Europe. Can there be a genuinely transnational demos?