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Photos: Prague Spring, forty years on

In front | ANALYSIS
Making a cut forty years on (Photo: Boris Svartzman)

On 21 August Prague commemorated forty years of it’s famous democratic ‘spring’, which ended revolt in the capital this past century. The spontaneous protest caught the world by surprise, before it was reprimanded by the Soviet regime. Images

by Boris Svartzman // 22/08/08

FEATURE
Radek refuses to go on Palacký Square to express his opinion (Photo: ©KK)

Prague ‘Hyde Park’: dead speakers society

The Czech capital is banishing a young Brit’s project from the city centre after the first Speaker’s Corner in Europe outside of the UK became a hotspot for extremists

by Katharina Kloss // 29/04/08

FEATURE
Big boys can play too (Photo: captKodak/ Flickr)

4x4s: urban penis substitutes

As night falls across cities in Europe, including here in Lyon, 'eco-guerillas' deflate four-wheeler car tyres in a revolt against a lifestyle which they find scandalous

by Marie Signoret // 16/04/08

ANALYSIS

Bike traffic: return of the scorchers

Environmentally conscious cyclists regularly battle errant cars in European cities

by Chris // 15/04/08

INTERVIEW
(Photo: DT)

International Roma Day: Aladár Horváth on reality TV in Hungary

A leading activist denounces ghettos and the media-created ‘exotic trash’ images of Europe's biggest minority of eight million people, who celebrate their day on 8 April

by Danielle Tyree // 07/04/08

FREEZE! by the Eiffel Tower in Paris

On 8 March 2008, 3, 000 people suddenly stopped dead in their tracks and froze like statues at the Trocadero Square 'because we usually spend all day long running around like lunatics'

by Jane Mery // 14/03/08

ANALYSIS
Feminist slogans during a protest in Paris (Photo: DR/ Jean-Claude Seine)

Feminism in France: the Rose Revolution

May 1968 was a turning point in world history, but it was also a rupture for women's history. Feminists of yesterday and today tell us about their war

by Mathilde Magnier // 23/01/08

PORTRAIT
Ian Van der Kooye, the new face of Dutch politics (NB)

Lux Voor: the changing face of politics

Neither coalition nor legal organisation, the ‘Lux Voor’ movement, founded in March 2006, radically questions contemporary Dutch politics. We take a look at this flourishing network

by Nicolas Baker // 28/08/06

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