Language is both part of identity and also an easy means for others to treat an immigrant as an outsider: “You don’t belong here”. Film director Melanie Pereira talks about the impact on her and her friends of speaking Luzembourgish with an accent, and how in London one of them […]
Europe
The Spanish left survives and regains the executive power
Against all odds, Spain will be governed by a left-wing government. The coalition of PSOE and Sumar has reached the majority needed in Parliament to form a government. The support of the right-wing and left-wing Catalan and Basque parties to the coalition offers an unusual but interesting plurality of voices for the new legislature.
In Spain the right wing tries to boycott democracy
The conservatives and ultra conservatives of the Iberian country are determined to wipe out the Spanish left. This is what the riots, threatening voices and a prosecution war (lawfare) that has been going on in recent times are all about. Juanjo Andrés Cuervo The panorama is as follows: […]
In search of a healthy and undeniable nationalism
Since its embryonic beginnings as mercantile capitalism, two of the noteworthy characteristics of the capitalist system have been a marked tendency towards the concentration of wealth and a dynamic of territorial expansion. Juan Diego García The concentration of wealth does not mean that only large companies survive but […]
Flee, survive or die in the Mediterranean
Marina is so named because she was born at sea, in an Italian patrol boat surrounded by more than 600 people trying to reach Europe; her mother was one of those migrants. Luisa María González The ship Bettica rescued 654 travellers from the Mediterranean Sea in sailing in […]