Having endured inhuman conditions during the unforgiving winter of 1871, Parisians rose up and created an insurrectionary movement that established the world’s first working-class government. It was liquidated two months later, but its political system (self-managed socialism) is inspiring. The Prisma’s Memoirs. March 2021. Juanjo Andres Cuervo The […]
In Focus
In Focus
The colour of Marxism
The idea that race is not built into the logic of capitalism is rubbished in Raoul Peck’s documentary “Exterminate all the beasts” and Cedric Robinson was making the same point in 1983 when his book “Black Marxism: the making of the black radical tradition” first appeared. The Prisma’s Memoirs. June […]
Families can be complicated
When she was a photography student in New York, Gillian Laub was chatting with classmates when one of them pointed derisively to some people coming towards them: “Look at those vulgar women in their fancy fur coats”. Sean Sheehan Gillian nodded in agreement, noting the brightness of their […]
“Impunity”, the memory of the victims
On the 5th March 2009, the ex-paramilitary commander of United Self-Defence Unit of Colombia (AUC in Spanish), José Éver Veloza, alias H.H, was extradited to the US in order to account for his dealings in narco-trafficking crimes. The Prisma’s Memoirs. April 2011. Juan Galbete Up until the day […]
Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador: “It’s very difficult to achieve the revolutionary conscience”
While he crossed the Heart of the city in his boat over the river Thames, the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, had completed what was the first visit made by the aforementioned leader to the United Kingdom. The Prisma’s Memoirs. January 2011. Helen Yaffe* It happened at the […]
















