The words that mainstream book reviewers reach for when describing “Capitalism and its critics: A battle of ideas in the modern world” are ones like ‘magisterial’, ‘sweeping’ or ‘expansive’. Apart from suggesting a big book, there is the sense of an authoritative overview of its subject matter. Sean Sheehan […]
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Welfare cuts, a deliberate political decision
The current reduction in welfare spending should come as no surprise. It is the completely comprehensible consequence of long-term historical developments in British politics. Steve Latham Welfare cuts have been extended over ever-more vulnerable groups, such as the disabled and single parents. But the current reduction in welfare […]
In every phrase of Marti there is… the poet Marti
This diary is a poem itself. It has the immediacy of poetry today and always. The morning has not yet started and I am moved. The little book jumps into my hands in a mysterious way early in the morning. It is the Jose Marti’s campaign dairy on the way […]
“Fugitives from the Matrix”
In last week’s The Prisma, Claudio Chipana Gutiérrez made the case for positive forms of identity and Louisa Yousfi in “In defence of barbarism: Non-whites against the Empire” does something similar by defending the value of barbarism. Sean Sheehan Reading Kateb Yacine, the writer who came from the […]
A topic that is becoming a recurrent one for me
I see it ever Sunday on the Dominican TV channel where they love to tell us: “Heroes are different people”. Proving that not much has changed in seventy years, only the tools used, that with it: “General Winter”, will be a future metaphor of Nothingness. Armando Orozco Tovar […]
















