Amid growing youth resistance in Iran, schools have emerged as key sites of protest. In response, a new memorandum between the Education Ministry and police allows unrestricted police presence in schools. This marks a troubling shift toward securitizing education, reflecting the regime’s preference for control over reform and its deepening […]
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Chaplin, a satirical view of exile
During his lifetime the English film maker experienced the strong arm of the law at a time when immigration laws in certain countries were increasingly restricting the movement of people around the world, a situation which contradicted the concept of freedom discussed in the last quarter of a century. […]
Two seminars of Jacques Lacan
On first acquaintance, Jacques Lacan is still capable of producing an aura of enigma and obscurity and in the past this invited ridicule. In 1989, Noam Chomsky was dismissing Lacan as a charlatan producing nonsense for the sake of it but now he has taken his place alongside Freud, the […]
The right’s manoeuvring to destabilise Bolivia
The Bolivian authorities have denounced that there exists currently an intense media and social media offensive, disinformation campaigns, systematic harassment and political aggression aimed at discrediting Luis Arce’s national government. Jorge Petinaud Martínez Almost a year after the failed coup d’état of 26th June 2024 and with just […]
Dark outlook for El Salvador’s economy
In 2025, this Central American country will be the slowest-growing in the region and will suffer an economic slowdown, apart from the trade war unleashed by the United States, its good ally. Growth is projected to be 2.2 per cent. The figures correspond to reports issued by powerful lending […]
















