The presence of classics in working-class culture, challenging its more usual role in the education of the ruling class, is inspiringly documented in “A people’s history of Classics” (2020), by Edith Hall and Henry Stead. Sean Sheehan It had been evoked earlier, in the opening scene of Brian […]
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Nationalisms yesterday and today
Those currently achieving political prominence in the Old Continent have little or nothing to do with national recognition of poor people on the peripheries, victims of the growth of capitalism. The flags of internationalism await more favourable times. Juan Diego García Here, in the periphery of the global […]
Violence and cruelty, a means to preserve self-esteem
People who say that their over-riding priority is their self-esteem, are the opposite. They are insecure, sometimes to the extent that they will use any methods, even illegal ones, to enhance what they believe is necessary to wipe out their poor self-image. Nigel Pocock Do people really love […]
Written out of history
The creation of a West and East Germany did not come about by design. Stalin wanted a buffer between the USSR and the West, not a separate, self-governing German state, and he looked to German communists who had fled to Russia during the 1930s and survived his purges. Sean […]
We need to welcome diversity
Experiences and voices within a society are diverse and often contradictory. Ignorance and exclusion disable human beings. The issue is not what is wrong with certain people, but what is wrong with a society which makes the lives of some people miserable. Mabel Encinas If we need everybody […]
















