Everyone knows that the world is wildly out of sync with human needs and aspirations. Ground zero is the point, not reached by those shamelessly benefitting from it, when a sense of futility sends us into a descending spiral of despondency. Sean Sheehan It is also the point […]
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A book for our times: “The aesthetics of resistance”
The three parts of “The aesthetics of resistance” by Peter Weiss were published between 1975 and 1981 in German. The first English translation of Volume I appeared in 2005, the second volume fifteen years later and now the final part is available. Sean Sheehan Between them, the three […]
Ecuador under siege: crisis, militarisation, and the return of foreign interference
The Andean country is sinking into an unprecedented multi-faceted crisis: insecurity, extreme poverty, the dismantling of the State, and submission to foreign powers. Amid privatisations, political persecution, and the return of military bases, Ecuador has become a key battleground for Washington’s interests and its confrontation with China in Latin America. […]
Calls in Europe to ban glorification of Nazism
Pressure is growing for Ukraine to ban Nazi symbols and tributes. The scandal in Canada over the honouring of a former SS member revives the debate, while anti-fascist organisations and critics warn against tolerating the glorification of collaborationists in the midst of the conflict with Russia. The representative of […]
This is where the story begins
Everyone likes a story, we need them, but in the last twenty years or more story-telling at an international level has become the territory of the political right: “…pieces of information, statistics, slogans, fears, reflexes”, writes Yves Citton, have shaped many people’s imaginations and there is a pressing need to […]
















