Throughout the world, far-right populists mobilise supporters along lines of identity: especially religion and race. Steve Latham Left-wing commentators decry this, because it subverts class-based politics. But (as a friend asked me) what is the relationship between these two models of political mobilisation? It is ironic that leftists […]
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Notions of good and bad
Every male on earth, from the earliest time, has carried a ‘Y’ chromosome (the X-shaped bundles of DNA, contained within the cell nucleus) inherited from the father, which makes him differ from the female, with two X chromosomes. Nigel Pocock In 1946, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote his classic statement […]
Batista and the survivors
It happened in March 1957, after three in the afternoon. The Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista was drinking coffee in his office when several screams and gunfire shots shook the then Presidential Palace. Isaura Diez Millan 50 young men under the command of Carlos Gutierrez Menoyo entered the headquarters […]
Weaponizing citizenship
Citizenship is still regarded by some as a neutral marker that arrives with birth, an equally bestowed dispensation, an act of inclusion that can be taken for granted. Sean Sheehan Maybe, once up a time, it was like this for everyone; it still is for some people in […]
Where the ‘bad kids’ live
It is strange how the English word ‘estate’ has different meanings. It may mean the plush land-holdings of the aristocracy, or a social housing development, for the working class and poor. Steve Latham When I was growing up, our town had an ‘estate’, in this latter sense. As […]