Mao Zedong saw the opportunity of radical change when the existing social and political disorder was in a state of critical disarray: “There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent”. Sean Sheehan Zizek goes a step further by noting that, while disorder under heaven is once […]
In Focus
In Focus
Architecture (re)constructs childhoods
The war in Ukraine has expelled thousands of children and young people from the country, who are now taking refuge in neighbouring countries. A group of architects work hard to help these displaced young people to integrate into their new communities. Jorge Raedo The “Architecture & Childhood” Work […]
Latin American immigrant, work and identity
Capitalism has ‘assigned’ the role of cheap labour to Latino migrants, justifying it ideologically by the application of racist stereotypes. Claudio Chipana Without breaking racist ideological stereotypes it is not possible to move forward towards a truly integrated and inclusive society, especially for ethnic and national minorities, something […]
Anna Mendelssohn, the right to be angry
Anna Mendelssohn, whose poetry has also appeared under the names Anne Mendelson and Grace Lake, was born near Manchester in 1948. Various collections of poems appeared before her death in 2009 and now “I’m working here” brings together all her work in a meticulously prepared edition. Sean Sheehan […]
Me and Gabo
I haven’t always got on well with Gabo. I first met him via the obligatory reading of “Cronica de una muerte anunciada” when I started on my Spanish and Latin American Studies course at the then Polytechnic of London at the end of the 1980s. Jake Lagnado There […]
















