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Tooba Gondal: the British woman who recruited women for Isis

ISIS peaked in 2015-16, but its recruitment in Western societies grew from conditions that have not changed. They include sexism, and moral emptiness. Where politics is moribund, the simplicity of religious fundamentalism offers a solution, including to middle-class Muslim women.
Cleaners of the world… unite!

Times are changing and governments and some trade unions are crawling along to catch up. Sub-contracted work deprives workers in service industries of their most basic rights to security and often to physical and mental safety.
New unions and workers’ cooperatives are a way forward, neglected since the 1970s.
The Spanish left survives and regains the executive power

Against all odds, Spain will be governed by a left-wing government. The coalition of PSOE and Sumar has reached the majority needed in Parliament to form a government. The support of the right-wing and left-wing Catalan and Basque parties to the coalition offers an unusual but interesting plurality of voices for the new legislature.
“I was born here but I don’t feel at home anywhere”

Five young women talk about growing up in a very multicultural society yet feeling they don’t belong there nor in the country their parents came from. One of them directs a film in which they share intimate details of their feelings. The film becomes part of their process of adaptation to new identities.
10 years of CLAUK: feeling, living and supporting Latino migrants

This coalition was established during a period when the UK adopted hostile policies towards migrants. Since then it has sought to help and make the community visible. In this Special Edition, The Prisma brings together the voices of CLAUK’s member organisations, highlighting the achievements, challenges and difficulties of Latino migrants.

United Kingdom & Current affairs

When big trade unions abandon their precarious workers
7 days agoThe global capitalist network is free to move its productive activities between countries and regions in
The crisis of capitalism and social unrest
7 days agoThe neoliberal discourse proposed, among other things, to put an end to the cyclical crises of the capitalist
Restoring the great in Britain
7 days agoI have often thought that the title Great Britain spoke of the pomposity and hubris which stems from our
What a difference a week makes
7 days agoI arrived at the Palestine Museum of Natural History / Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, housed
Inequality as a cause of hunger and famine
7 days agoMore than 42 million inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from hunger. This is around 6.5%

Multiculture

Cleaners of the world… unite!
27/11/2023
Times are changing and governments and some trade unions are crawling along to catch up. Sub-contracted work deprives workers in [...]
Immigrants: finding a multicultural identity
20/11/2023
Language is both part of identity and also an easy means for others to treat an immigrant as an outsider: “You don’t belong [...]
“I was born here but I don’t feel at home anywhere”
13/11/2023
Five young women talk about growing up in a very multicultural society yet feeling they don’t belong there nor in the country [...]

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Latin America

The crisis of capitalism and social unrest
04/12/2023
The neoliberal discourse proposed, among other things, to put an end to the cyclical crises of the capitalist system, giving way [...]
Latin America: Women’s emancipation vs. feminicide
27/11/2023
Brazil and Honduras are two countries in which women are taking the lead in stories of self-improvement and resistance against [...]
Argentina took a leap into the void
27/11/2023
This Latin American country has already gone through situations in which fragmentation will be the strategy to apply anti-popular [...]

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Culture

The world we live in
04/12/2023
Jacqueline Rose began “The plague” with the first UK pandemic lockdown (March 2020) and she finished it with Russia’s [...]
Searching for Shambhala (2023)
04/12/2023
Director: Tian Yu Liu. Writer: Tian Yu Liu. Running time: 15 mins. After screening “Moerasdraak”– a found-footage [...]
Hamnet at the Garrick Theatre
27/11/2023
Virtually nothing is known about Anne (Agnes) Hathaway other than she was the mother of three children – Susanna in 1583 and [...]

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Workers

When big trade unions abandon their precarious workers
04/12/2023
The global capitalist network is free to move its productive activities between countries and regions in search of profit, but [...]
Immigrant workers: racism and work harassment
02/10/2023
Fausto*, an immigrant who arrived in the UK a little more than 3 years ago, is holding various jobs to try to get ahead for his [...]
Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
31/03/2023
The streets of Paris have become the scene of police repression, attacks on the press and popular resistance. Reports of police [...]

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United Kingdom

When big trade unions abandon their precarious workers
04/12/2023
The global capitalist network is free to move its productive activities between countries and regions in search of profit, but [...]
The crisis of capitalism and social unrest
04/12/2023
The neoliberal discourse proposed, among other things, to put an end to the cyclical crises of the capitalist system, giving way [...]
Restoring the great in Britain
04/12/2023
I have often thought that the title Great Britain spoke of the pomposity and hubris which stems from our small island mentality [...]

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Lifestyle

Networks of love and hate, especially hate!
26/06/2023
Violence 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
05/09/2022
A United Nations study on education in Honduras, published last June, reveals that since March 2020, some 310,000 students have [...]
Home learning: classroom revolution
09/11/2020
Home learning emerged in the midst of the fight against COVID-19 to ensure that teaching could continue in the Dominican [...]

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Strugles

Family court collusion with violent fathers
11/09/2023
There 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’
31/03/2023
The 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
27/03/2023
The danger of a climate emergency, for which many are to blame, and which must be acted upon, is clear. And it must be faced [...]

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World

The crisis of capitalism and social unrest
04/12/2023
The neoliberal discourse proposed, among other things, to put an end to the cyclical crises of the capitalist system, giving way [...]
What a difference a week makes
04/12/2023
I arrived at the Palestine Museum of Natural History / Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, housed in the buildings and [...]
Inequality as a cause of hunger and famine
04/12/2023
More than 42 million inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from hunger. This is around 6.5% of their population, [...]

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Sports

Maradona, a universal Latin American
30/11/2020
Of Diego Maradona, many things can be said. A restless and therefore multifaceted man, he was not just a football player and [...]

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United Kingdom & Current affairs

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