Eighty years have passed since the nuclear catastrophe. And now is the time to revisit history and its tragedy: between 6th and 9th August 1945, the United States launched its most devastating device on two Japanese islands, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The debacle left more than 135,000 dead, 40,000 injured and […]
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Imperial matters
The first insurrection against the British Empire in the twentieth century, the Easter Rising, took place in Ireland in 1916 – when the Empire controlled nearly a quarter of the world’s population. Sean Sheehan Nationalist and anticolonial resistance spread widely in the aftermath of World War I, especially […]
“The twilight of history”: A utopia for the 21st century
This is the title of the first novel by Juan José Andrés Cuervo, a Spanish journalist from The Prisma, who decided to immerse himself in history, first through academia and then through literature. In this book, he imagines a society where the ideas of cooperation, solidarity, and mutual aid have […]
Cristina Fernández is proscribed and wanted in prison
This is the first time in Argentine history that a president or former president has been sentenced to prison after a trial criticised for being riddled with irregularities and seen as a judicial coup. The decision has exacerbated the feelings of many Argentinians who are protesting against the decision […]
The Pylos state crime: We make our tears a sea of anger
On June 13, 2023: Alarm Phone received the first call from the Adriana, an overcrowded boat in distress carrying about 750 people that departed from Libya towards Europe. In the hours that followed, our volunteers alerted competent authorities and attempted several times to reach the people in distress, sometimes successfully […]
















