At the end of the 1940’s my father, manager of a Swiss company, arrived in the country. He threw me out of the home for being a ‘stone thrower’ at a school where leftist teachers were turning everyone into Marxists. It’s an ideology that’s still in vogue today. Armando […]
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Rescuing philosophy from its lethargy
Only a radical knowledge, like philosophy, can provoke an equally radical change. Sure, not all philosophy is equal, and not all philosophers are interested in a transformation as stated by Marx. But the bottom line is the kind of philosophy that you are professing. Claudio Chipana In an […]
Antigone’s monstrous protest
“Antigone”, an ancient Greek drama, tells the story of a dictatorial ruler, Creon, and a woman, Antigone, who challenges his injunction that her deceased brother, Polyneices, cannot be buried. Sean Sheehan Antigone and Polyneices are the children of Oedipus and, because she tries to bury her brother, her […]
“Western journalists are cowards”: The Western abandonment of Palestine
Give Over hosted a panel discussion in London about Palestinian journalists left to die in the dark. Maryam Jameela /Now Then* This panel was organised to discuss the conditional solidarity which has meant that Western journalists have been a complicit audience watching Israel target and kill Palestinian journalists […]
New workers’ rights model to be explored in Spain
When it comes to improving working conditions in global supply chains, the Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) model has seen unparalleled success. Jasmine Owens* Ethical Consumer is pleased to announce that funding has been secured to explore WSR in UK supermarkets’ Spanish supply chains. In 2023 we published the […]