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Domestic violence: The film that could spark a conversation across Europe
The feelings of isolation suffered by domestic violence victims are more intense for LGBTQ+ people or members of other marginalized groups. Legal delays prolong the suffering. Telling these stories requires capturing their social depth and understanding relationships in contexts of vulnerability.
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Journalism in exile: five years without my daughters
For five years, between the blurred borders of exile and fatherhood, a man breathes—with words as his only weapon. He is neither a hero nor a victim, just someone whose honest desire to speak the truth tore him away from his home, his family, his country. This is the story of silent suffering—of those unseen yet still standing.
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Downriver: memory and exile in the waters of Glasgow
A story of migration, bridges, portraits and the rubble of modernity and progress. Filmmaker Victor Diago converts Glasgow into a living archive, where memory, forgetfulness and past crimes mix under a persistent rain. For a mediterranean person, Glasgow holds a magic in the midst of a harsh greyness. A dialogue between present and past.
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Catalina Villar: Mental health and repressive public morality
Through showing the impact of the use of lobotomy on her grandmother, her film “Ana Rosa” also deals with the social power of doctors, which they usually deny, claiming that their diagnoses are ‘objective’. The moral discourse on ‘normality’ always influences psychiatric categories. Surgery was used as a social control.
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New migration and asylum pact: human rights threats
The new EU Migration and Asylum Pact, while intended to streamline and improve migration processes, has faced widespread criticism from human rights organizations, experts, and civil society activists. Instead of providing a humane response to the migration crisis, the pact relies heavily on security-focused and restrictive approaches.
United Kingdom & Current affairs
- 22 hours agoThe term “fascist” is often misused to label anyone with right-wing views, including figures like
- 22 hours agoThe Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies create fear and concrete consequences for immigrants
- 22 hours agoThe suffering of Floyd until he died was recorded on video. His cry for help, “I can’t breathe”, while
- 22 hours agoShe agrees that her migratory status has “benefitted me greatly”. “I haven’t had to fill in any
- 22 hours agoLife for the Spaniard continues peacefully in a city that fascinates her, and where she has found herself a
Multiculture
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The Prisma series: Fascism, just another word for “repression”?
02/06/2025The term “fascist” is often misused to label anyone with right-wing views, including figures like Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump, [...] -
Immigrants: besieged, persecuted and stigmatised
02/06/2025The Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies create fear and concrete consequences for immigrants in the USA. The growing [...] -
George Floyd, still an open wound
02/06/2025The suffering of Floyd until he died was recorded on video. His cry for help, “I can’t breathe”, while police officer Remove [...]
- In London and living her second immigration
- Beginnings are never easy for an immigrant
- “Fugitives from the Matrix”
World
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The Prisma series: Fascism, just another word for “repression”?
02/06/2025The term “fascist” is often misused to label anyone with right-wing views, including figures like Emmanuel Macron, Donald [...] -
George Floyd, still an open wound
02/06/2025The suffering of Floyd until he died was recorded on video. His cry for help, “I can’t breathe”, while police officer [...] -
The media and other reasons for an unforgivable genocide
26/05/2025The genocide in Gaza, perpetrated by the Zionist Israeli army, ought to far surpass the civilisational crises and the pessimistic [...]
- The genocide in Palestine continues
- Living in exile in London and portraying Sumeria
- Schools, police, and power: Iran’s education-police memorandum
Culture
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“Fugitives from the Matrix”
02/06/2025In last week’s The Prisma, Claudio Chipana Gutiérrez made the case for positive forms of identity and Louisa Yousfi in “In [...] -
Domestic violence: the long road to freedom
26/05/2025A film made for cinemas is especially original because it forms part of an upcoming mini-series about refuges for women suffering [...] -
Germany and Israel and ground zero
26/05/2025Everyone knows that the world is wildly out of sync with human needs and aspirations. Ground zero is the point, not reached by [...]
- A book for our times: “The aesthetics of resistance”
- Downriver: memory and exile in the waters of Glasgow
- This is where the story begins
Strugles
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Major insurers invested billions of dollars in fossil fuels
22/04/2025A new report exposes the complicity of global insurers in the climate crisis by insuring and investing in fossil fuel companies. [...] -
Repression against Jews who opposes the genocide of Palestinians
03/03/2025For the past 69 weeks, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) has been peacefully protesting Israel’s Ambassador, [...] -
Students arrested after pro-Palestine occupation at Attenborough Tower
23/12/2024The occupation followed a similar protest at the university’s engineering building the week before. Rhys Everquill / [...]
- In search of people and place
- “Western journalists are cowards”: The Western abandonment of Palestine
- No to the economic war against Cuba
Latin America
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The most humble and social justice-loving president has gone
19/05/2025The great José ‘PEPE MUJICA’ is gone. Yes, that’s right, in capital letters. I write this column with deep sorrow for [...] -
Ecuador under siege: crisis, militarisation, and the return of foreign interference
19/05/2025The Andean country is sinking into an unprecedented multi-faceted crisis: insecurity, extreme poverty, the dismantling of the [...] -
Afro-descendant Brazil: vibrant culture, structural racism
19/05/2025Brazil is the country with the most Afro-descendants outside of Africa, but its cultural wealth coexists with a painful legacy [...]
- Calls in Europe to ban glorification of Nazism
- Catalina Villar: Mental health and repressive public morality
- Honduras and its diaspora: expelled or returned home
Workers
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Holding various jobs, but suffering work harassment
17/02/2025Fausto*, an immigrant who arrived in the UK several years ago, is holding various jobs to try to get ahead for his family. [...] -
Immigrants at sea (2): Developing internationalist trade unionism
29/01/2024It is about organising wherever there are migrant, precarious, low-paid or marginalised workers willing to unite. It is about [...] -
A decade for immigrant and vulnerable workers
22/01/2024Grassroots, independent, bilingual and defending the rights of workers in precarious employment, especially migrants and those [...]
- Immigrants at sea in a precarious labour market (1)
- When big trade unions abandon their precarious workers
- Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
United Kingdom
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The Prisma series: Fascism, just another word for “repression”?
02/06/2025The term “fascist” is often misused to label anyone with right-wing views, including figures like Emmanuel Macron, Donald [...] -
Immigrants: besieged, persecuted and stigmatised
02/06/2025The Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies create fear and concrete consequences for immigrants in the USA. The [...] -
George Floyd, still an open wound
02/06/2025The suffering of Floyd until he died was recorded on video. His cry for help, “I can’t breathe”, while police officer [...]
- In London and living her second immigration
- Beginnings are never easy for an immigrant
- Domestic violence: The film that could spark a conversation across Europe
Lifestyle
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Networks of love and hate, especially hate!
26/06/2023Violence motivated by hate speech towards vulnerable groups is rampant on social media, despite the rejection of many people. A [...] -
Re-founding Honduras to re-found education
05/09/2022A United Nations study on education in Honduras, published last June, reveals that since March 2020, some 310,000 students have [...] -
Home learning: classroom revolution
09/11/2020Home learning emerged in the midst of the fight against COVID-19 to ensure that teaching could continue in the Dominican [...]
- The virus cannot kill education
- Children and the internet: what Coronavirus changed
- Latin-American youth: a life marked by violence
Sports
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The Prisma series: Fascism, just another word for “repression”?
02/06/2025The term “fascist” is often misused to label anyone with right-wing views, including figures like Emmanuel Macron, Donald [...] -
Immigrants: besieged, persecuted and stigmatised
02/06/2025The Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies create fear and concrete consequences for immigrants in the USA. The [...] -
George Floyd, still an open wound
02/06/2025The suffering of Floyd until he died was recorded on video. His cry for help, “I can’t breathe”, while police officer [...]
- In London and living her second immigration
- Beginnings are never easy for an immigrant
- “Fugitives from the Matrix”