On the 18th of Feb 22, a giant Cuban flag was unfurled in Trafalgar Square, in the centre of London, in a protest to demand an end to US sanctions on Cuba. Rock Around the Blockade The US blockade is the longest and most comprehensive set of sanctions […]
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The last Britain in Guantanamo
Despite Barak Obama’s promise to close down Guantanamo Bay, Shaker Aamer a former British resident and father of four is continuing to be detained in the illegal enclosure in Cuba after nine years of being imprisoned without charge or trial. The Prisma’s Memoirs. November 2010. Sofia Ahmad 43 […]
Detainees II – Becky: “We can’t accept everything that is done to us”
Poor healthcare, detainees abused by the guards and a system that “breaks your heart” are part of the things this Cameroonian woman lived while being detained in the UK. “It’s people who have been tortured, who are gang raped in their countries”, she explains.
The left versus the current neoliberal model
The strategic objectives of a national project that is radical in the sense of getting to the root of problems seem very distant. And for that very reason it is essential to advance as much as is feasible in the short term.The Colombian left’s immediate goal should be overcoming the current neoliberal model, for which deep reforms in the economic and political ambits, must be carried out.
Selma James: “We get nothing unless we struggle”
There are few people alive who have spent a lifetime as politically involved as she has. She is 91 years old, the founder of Wages for Housework Campaign, and has fought to end institutional racism and gender inequality. Her life is the epitome of a constant struggle for a new world based on international solidarity.