The new migratory agreement is among the most important European events of 2020, despite the fact that it constitutes the regional bloc’s greatest failure of the last five years and becomes a difficult challenge to solve. Ernesto Hernández Lacher The pact distributes responsibilities among the member states, reinforces […]
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Migrants dead or missing: no faces or figures
Little is known about the identities of the 30,510 deceased migrants recorded by the Missing Migrants Project in the last five years. It is only known that almost 1,600 were children, 1,700 women and about 5,000 men. It is assumed that they left their homes and families seeking to improve […]
Portugal, underdeveloped memories of colonialism
French director Ariel de Bigault talks about the illusions of colonialist ideologies, which laundered the brutalities of slave trafficking. She highlights the failures of the left in Portugal and Brazil to recognize the racism inherent in their cultures. And tells a story of a journey that led her from music […]
Church vs. State
Why European courts don’t cut churches much slack during confinement. Darrin Burgess When Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York ordered a second wave of lockdowns last October to stem the contagion of Covid-19, he evoked the now-familiar distinction between essential and non-essential venues, and put severe restrictions on […]
The favela does not shut up and neither does he
According to data from the 2020 Atlas of Violence, 75% of homicide victims in Brazil in 2018 were black. And the situation seems to be getting worse. André Constantine knows this and together with him a movement has emerged that redefines the class struggles, the decolonisation struggle, the anti-racist and anti-capitalist struggle.
















