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Colombia: both victim and spectator of its own violence
In three decades, 450,664 people were killed and 7,752,964 were victims of forced displacement as a result of the armed conflict. Massacres, disappearances, kidnappings, rape and land dispossession were perpetrated by paramilitaries, guerrillas and members of the armed forces, among others. The state is also to blame. The Truth Commission has documented this reality.
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A truth in the shadows: The murder of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on isolated tribes, and Dom Phillips, a renowned British journalist, disappeared in a remote area of the Amazon rainforest on 5 June. They were brutally murdered in the Amazon after receiving death threats. An interview with Bruno’s father-in-Law, the Indigenist Kleber Gesteira Matos.
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Michael Borodin: The convenience storefront masks slavery
The collapse of the USSR, led to massive social inequality and migration from the ex-Soviet Republics by people desperate for work. The situation is exacerbated by corrupt police and a barely-functioning justice system. All kinds of slavery are proliferating as migrants are exploited.
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All struggles must be united as we are all oppressed
This is the thinking of Selma James, who advocates the union between feminism, anti-racism and the environmental movements, and for whom a Care Income is an instrument to end poverty, reduce inequalities and protect the planet.
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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.
United Kingdom & Current affairs
- 2 days agoA 4000 Km journey between Lisbon and Senegal several times a year in an old Peugeot 504 demands many
- 2 days agoThe victory of Gustavo Petro in Colombia’s presidential election constitutes an unprecedented event in
- 2 days agoThe North American intervention, the ideological battle, the manipulation of the Western media and the
- 2 days agoIn Paraguay, the conditions causing vulnerability of children are becoming more acute. But it is not an
- 2 days agoThis is part one of a series of interviews The Canary has carried out with Jin News journalists about Turkish
Multiculture
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When migration is also work
04/07/2022A 4000 Km journey between Lisbon and Senegal several times a year in an old Peugeot 504 demands many practical and social skills [...] -
Not safe to be me
04/07/2022– The impromptu march that took our anger to the PM’s doorstep – On 29th June 2022, the streets of central [...] -
Language expresses identity
27/06/2022Slang is used both to stereotype minority communities, and used by minorities to assert their own identity, as the changing usage [...]
Latin America
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The left in power
04/07/2022The victory of Gustavo Petro in Colombia’s presidential election constitutes an unprecedented event in a country in which [...] -
Cuba, beyond the blockade
04/07/2022The North American intervention, the ideological battle, the manipulation of the Western media and the contradictions of the [...] -
Growth in violence and sexual abuse of children
04/07/2022In Paraguay, the conditions causing vulnerability of children are becoming more acute. But it is not an isolated phenomenon, nor [...]
- An anti-Bolsonaro youth
- Colombia: both victim and spectator of its own violence
- A slow investigation: The murder of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Culture
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Trains not planes
04/07/2022The gas emissions from flights make up 2.4% of the world’s total carbon emissions and even a flight of a few hundred miles [...] -
The human and the nonhuman
27/06/2022Rebecca Tamás begins her book “Strangers” by recalling the 17th century Levellers and their proto-communist calls for [...] -
From oddity to commodity
20/06/2022The depth of James Joyce’s writing provides source material for academics and culture vultures everywhere but while the [...]
Workers
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Global solidarity and movement building
20/06/2022Facing the climate crisis, the global pandemic and the wars requires a global movement. For Selma James, the international [...] -
All struggles must be united as we are all oppressed
13/06/2022This is the thinking of Selma James, who advocates the union between feminism, anti-racism and the environmental movements, and [...] -
Selma James: “We get nothing unless we struggle”
06/06/2022There are few people alive who have spent a lifetime as politically involved as she has. She is 91 years old, the founder of [...]
United Kingdom
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When migration is also work
04/07/2022A 4000 Km journey between Lisbon and Senegal several times a year in an old Peugeot 504 demands many practical and social skills [...] -
The left in power
04/07/2022The victory of Gustavo Petro in Colombia’s presidential election constitutes an unprecedented event in a country in which [...] -
Cuba, beyond the blockade
04/07/2022The North American intervention, the ideological battle, the manipulation of the Western media and the contradictions of the [...]
- Growth in violence and sexual abuse of children
- Kurdish radical women journalists will not be silenced in the face of Turkish repression
- Language expresses identity
Lifestyle
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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
10/08/2020The most important thing for the Mexican secretary of education is not only to save lives in the pandemic which has already taken [...] -
Children and the internet: what Coronavirus changed
10/08/2020The Covid-19 pandemic changed many routines at a global level from various orders, and life within households also had its [...]
Strugles
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Global solidarity and movement building
20/06/2022Facing the climate crisis, the global pandemic and the wars requires a global movement. For Selma James, the international [...] -
All struggles must be united as we are all oppressed
13/06/2022This is the thinking of Selma James, who advocates the union between feminism, anti-racism and the environmental movements, and [...] -
Selma James: “We get nothing unless we struggle”
06/06/2022There 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 house work, decades of Struggle
- British bank asked to unblock Cuba
- A social explosion to commemorate and not to forget
World
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Kurdish radical women journalists will not be silenced in the face of Turkish repression
04/07/2022This is part one of a series of interviews The Canary has carried out with Jin News journalists about Turkish state repression. [...] -
The ‘media lynching’, the message of fear
27/06/2022One of their worst qualities is their intensely public impunity. There is no going back. The slander, lies, rumours, gossip, [...] -
A truth in the shadows: The murder of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
27/06/2022Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on isolated tribes, and Dom Phillips, a renowned British journalist, disappeared in a remote [...]
- The stolen dreams of the US’s Dreamers
- Music, migration and cultural revolution
- The United States and its lost supremacy
Sports
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Maradona, a universal Latin American
30/11/2020Of Diego Maradona, many things can be said. A restless and therefore multifaceted man, he was not just a football player and [...]