There is a difference between the expressions ‘I don’t mind’ and ‘I don’t care’. The first one might have to do with indifference as acceptance and respect (I do not mind what my neighbour prefers to eat); the second one refers to indifference as lack of engagement (I do not […]
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Modern trafficking and African-Caribbean slavery: A false comparison?
One of the greatest myths is that modern trafficking can be directly compared with African-Caribbean chattel slavery. There are a number of fallacies in this argument. Nigel Pocock Could it be, as is suggested by Professor Geoff Palmer, that local communities can talk about modern trafficking, because it […]
Miguel Hernández, poetry and prison
What did I do to deserve so much time inside? It was 1961, in the poet Darío Samper’s library, when I first came to know Miguel Hernández. Armando Orozco Tovar The Spanish poet, was sitting in a corduroy suit, head shaved head, and with works of poetry and […]
Life and death…. Death and life
We often turn a blind eye to death in the West. But why? After all, prevailing common sense tells us that every life ultimately ends in the same way: with death. Mabel Encinas Not all cultures share our fatalistic view of death. It’s a sad fact that death […]
Autonomist Abdication?
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi is an old school Italian marxist. Rising up during the 1960s, he spent years in exile in France, during the repression of the 1970s. Steve Latham Now a new superstar of the far left, he has released a new book, “Schizo Mail”, based on short […]
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