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“They are united by war, we must be united by peace”
This is the view of Dagoberto Gaitán Vargas, a Colombian immigrant who had to go into exile to find political asylum in the United Kingdom, where he has lived for over two decades. The son of coffee producers, born in the rural area of Tolima and with a life of militancy behind him, he has a political and social perspective on Colombia, observes the past and looks toward a future of hope. “Immigrants and activists in the UK”.
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Julian Assange, guilty for defending press freedom
For an innocent person to plead guilty is not a capitulation. It is an act of courage and wisdom. The fact that Julian Assange has pleaded guilty to practising journalism, to following the activities that the profession demands, guarantees his freedom but allows his persecutors to play perversely with the freedom of the press and, in the future, to find legal ways to bury the truth.
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After slavery: darkness at noon on the Equator
In the film “Banzo”, the story of the persistence of neo-slavery, long after slavery was banned builds on the small details of life, and the documents often passed over. The normalization of violence affects everyone involved, but for the labourers it destroys their motivation to engage with life. And doctors are called to investigate this new ‘sickness’.
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The far right, a modern version of fascism
If fascism is understood as the extreme denial of the basic principles of liberal thought, that is, of bourgeois democracy, what nowadays is called the far-right or simply fascism can be taken as the modern version of fascism. It never disappeared and it is now merely being reborn with new characteristics but retaining the foundations of yesteryear.
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A messenger bringing Iraq to Western audiences
Yaser Al-Sayegh began his career as a reporter focused on bringing Western news to Middle Eastern audiences. He now does the opposite through his Iraq International News Agency, which offers original multimedia coverage of Iraq for syndication around the world. “I understood myself as a messenger who could bring British culture to the Middle East”. Series “Journalists and immigrants in the UK”.
United Kingdom & Current affairs
- 5 days agoThe left has managed – with progress and setbacks – to make a reality of the traditional slogan
- 5 days agoOn the 27th July the International Opinion Tribunal (Trino) will meet to deliver an opinion on human rights
- 5 days agoA new petition by the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) will put pressure on Brighton and Hove City
- 5 days agoA new PrEP project for the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking diaspora aims to increase awareness and uptake of
- 5 days agoAround 120 young footballers with Latin American roots played in a futsal tournament yesterday in Crystal
Multiculture
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New HIV prevention project for immigrants
22/07/2024A new PrEP project for the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking diaspora aims to increase awareness and uptake of PrEP across North [...] -
Latin American youth in London: futsal at Carnaval de Pueblo
22/07/2024Around 120 young footballers with Latin American roots played in a futsal tournament yesterday in Crystal Palace. 16 teams [...] -
A story about immigrant women, made by women
15/07/2024On the street corners of Brooklyn, men and women from other countries wait for hours in the hope of finding a job. They’ll [...]
- Chronicle of an immigrant’s journey
- Feeling happy in his host country
- Immigrants, raids and the right to mobility
Latin America
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Women’s rebellion to rebuild a country
22/07/2024Paola Pabón Caranqui recently made official her pre-candidacy for the presidency of Ecuador for the Citizen Revolution Movement [...] -
The pulse between the left and the right in Peru
22/07/2024In Peru, 43 organisations have registered to compete in the upcoming elections. Twenty-nine of them have registered in the [...] -
Bolsonaro, his freedom hangs in the balance
22/07/2024With a pile of evidence collated, the Federal Police (FP) has accused the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, in an [...]
- When the press is no guardian of democracy
- Bolivia: foreign hands in coup plot
- Rebuilding Colombia, purging the establishment
Culture
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Memory as migration
22/07/2024The play “Mnemonic” first appeared on the stage in 1999, quickly establishing itself as a classic, and it has been [...] -
Tourism and climate change
15/07/2024The Roman emperor Nero is said to have played the fiddle while the city burned down. Probably apocryphal but it serves as an [...] -
Much ado on Southbank
08/07/2024London’s Southbank is one of the city’s locations not to be missed on sunny days or balmy evenings, especially the [...]
- A thought-provoking exploration of faith and identity
- Conquistadors and colonialism
- An angel poised on one foot
Workers
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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)
22/01/2024In London there are workers of more than 100 nationalities, including native Britons, in precarious conditions. Migrants are [...]
- When big trade unions abandon their precarious workers
- Immigrant workers: racism and work harassment
- Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
United Kingdom
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The duty of self-criticism among the new left
22/07/2024The left has managed – with progress and setbacks – to make a reality of the traditional slogan “expropriate the [...] -
International Humanitarian Law violations in Palestine on trial
22/07/2024On the 27th July the International Opinion Tribunal (Trino) will meet to deliver an opinion on human rights violations in the [...] -
Petition for sex worker protection and decriminalisation
22/07/2024A new petition by the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) will put pressure on Brighton and Hove City Council to ‘take all [...]
- New HIV prevention project for immigrants
- Latin American youth in London: futsal at Carnaval de Pueblo
- A story about immigrant women, made by women
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
Strugles
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No to the economic war against Cuba
25/03/2024On 15 March 2024, supporters of RATB protested outside the offices of London resident and DCD Rights’ Head of IT Mickael Behn [...] -
Family court collusion with violent fathers
11/09/2023There are devastating impacts of family court orders on mothers and children who had fled domestic violence and/or child abuse. [...] -
Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
31/03/2023The streets of Paris have become the scene of police repression, attacks on the press and popular resistance. Reports of police [...]
- “Stronger as one”, against the climate crisis
- A crash course to conflict
- Disabled people to protest over deaths and neglect in the NHS
World
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The duty of self-criticism among the new left
22/07/2024The left has managed – with progress and setbacks – to make a reality of the traditional slogan “expropriate the [...] -
International Humanitarian Law violations in Palestine on trial
22/07/2024On the 27th July the International Opinion Tribunal (Trino) will meet to deliver an opinion on human rights violations in the [...] -
A story about immigrant women, made by women
15/07/2024On the street corners of Brooklyn, men and women from other countries wait for hours in the hope of finding a job. They’ll [...]
- Winning the government but without achieving power
- International Coalition for Peace supports peace initiative
- Journey to the heart of Botswana
Sports
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The duty of self-criticism among the new left
22/07/2024The left has managed – with progress and setbacks – to make a reality of the traditional slogan “expropriate the [...] -
International Humanitarian Law violations in Palestine on trial
22/07/2024On the 27th July the International Opinion Tribunal (Trino) will meet to deliver an opinion on human rights violations in the [...] -
Petition for sex worker protection and decriminalisation
22/07/2024A new petition by the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) will put pressure on Brighton and Hove City Council to ‘take all [...]
- New HIV prevention project for immigrants
- Latin American youth in London: futsal at Carnaval de Pueblo
- Memory as migration