On 18 August, Alarm Phone was in contact with a boat carrying about 110 people on board, including 40 children. They had fled from Lebanon and were trying to escape to Italy. Alarm Phone They had reached the Search and Rescue (SAR) zone of Malta when they told […]
Europe
Denialism, a type of historical revisionism
Despite seeming unconceivable in the middle of the twentieth century, alongside attempts in Germany to erase any physical sign of this horrible crime grew a tendency to deny the holocaust and the pain suffered by millions of families. Glenda Arcia and Harold Neuber Those in favour of hiding […]
Rise of fascism: Spain’s democracy on the brink
The victory of the Popular Front in the general elections of 1936 was defeated by a coup d’état. Nowadays, the Spanish left faces the threat of the far-right to maintain democracy. Both eras were defined by an evident clash of progressive forces against a fascist opposition. On the 23rd of […]
LGBTQ+ life: the extent of repression in Russia today
In Russia, Poland and Hungary, the oppressive narrative claims that recognizing LGBTQ+ rights was another surrender to the spread of ‘Western’ values. The situation can be seen as a culture war, in which people’s attitudes to LGBTQ+ people are being co-opted by groups on both sides of the political spectrum, while stopping short of criminalization of them.
Migration crisis on Italian shores
From 1 January this year to date, nearly 62,000 irregular migrants have landed on Italian shores, more than double the 27,346 reported in the same period in 2022. Since the arrival on 28 June of 1,292 immigrants on the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, other barges have […]
















