Governance and democratic participation

In the second week of September, a two-day strike and plant-gate sit-in at The Nile Linen Group in Alexandria forced management and officials from the Labor Ministry to concede to a package of demands after an infant died in her..

Over the past weeks, Egyptian authorities renewed their crackdown on TikTok content creators and social media influencers. The police have already carried out dozens of arrests, including that of a student in Sharqiyya accused of making ‘offensive’ comments online, and..

The 2025 German federal election, held some eight months ahead of schedule following the collapse of the governing coalition late last year, largely proceeded as expected, with losses for the coalition partners, gains for the centre-right, and big gains for..

Co-chairs Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken on the party’s remarkable comeback   When we announced our candidacy for the chair of Die Linke last summer, the situation seemed hopeless: the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) had split from the party..

The pluridecade-long Kurdish-Turkish conflict has been interspersed with defining moments, amongst which the speeches of Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), hold a distinctive place. In 2013, his call for a unilateral cessation of hostilities signaled..

On November 21, 2024, partner organizations, friends, guests, and the staff of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation gathered for a small celebration in the garden of the foundation’s office. In the fall of 2014, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation opened its North..

Since taking power, el-Sisi has vastly expanded his country’s network of prisons and detention centres   For over a month now, hundreds of prisoners in Egypt’s notorious Badr 1 Prison, around 70 kilometres northeast of Cairo, have been staging a..

In Egypt, the Police are Soldiers for the Regime   Building on traditions dating back to colonialism, Egyptian police today are more militarized than ever     Scholarly debates around “police militarization” may not be new as such, but they..

Egypt’s Presidential Pantomime   Egyptians are headed to the polls next month, but the winner is a foregone conclusion     The most populous country in the Arab world is soon heading to the polls to elect a president. Egypt’s..

The Geopolitics of Sport in North Africa: “From the diplomacy of briefcases to that of Sneakers”     Since time immemorial, sports and politics have been intricately linked. One need only look at the Olympics in ancient Greece. Indeed, sports..

COP27: A Political Gift for El-Sisi’s Torture Regime   “Green” investments in Egypt do little for climate action, but legitimize the rule of a reactionary military dictatorship   Egypt’s President al-Sisi is exploiting COP27 to downplay his regime’s bloody human..

Click here for the German version     The state seems like a body on life support, a series of tubes running in and out of it, foreign doctors occasionally administering steroidal loans or applying structural adjustment chemotherapies. We study the..