After the Russian takeover of the Crimea but before the invasion of Ukraine, the astute Perry Anderson described Zelensky’s state as “a client regime mentored by US proconsuls in Kiev”. Sean Sheehan Neoliberalism has certainly been the order of Kiev’s day: privatization, de-regulation, de-unionization. Zelensky, as evidenced by […]
Culture
Resisting assimilation
It is a bit of a truism to say that good science fiction offers more insight into our present state than some future, imaginary one. Sean Sheehan The claim can be put to the test when reading “A desolation called peace”, a tale as intriguing as its author, […]
Immigrants: a hidden world in our own city
Migration is mostly to escape insufferable situations and to find better ones. A group of Senegalese men survive selling on the streets and beaches. Being so far apart from relatives and partners adds to their difficulties.
Veganism goes abroad
Veganism began officially in 1944 when some of the outliers of the Vegetarian Society asked for space in the British Vegetarian Society’s newsletter for those who don’t eat dairy products. Sean Sheehan They were turned down. It must have been a hard life in the fifties and sixties […]
A festival of human rights stories
Freedom of choice, cultural expression and family trauma are the main topics of a festival that is now in its 26th edition and that this year, in London, takes place from 17 to 25 March. In it, the Seventh Art portrays individuals and communities that stand in solidarity to create […]