International legal and moral responsibility towards Palestine must not be limited to describing the state of catastrophe, the destruction, the aggravation of the humanitarian catastrophe and the change of the geographical and demographic reality by the force of occupation. It must go further and take the necessary measures imposed by […]
Politics
‘The United States of Kailasa’, a phantom country in search of land
In 2019 Kailasa, of Indian origin according to its promoters, proclaimed itself a country with a flag, a constitution, a central bank and a passport. It is seeking land in South American countries despite lacking official recognition. Representatives of this fictitious state are seeking to establish perpetual leases on […]
Series ‘Fascism’: Defining fascism, defeating fascism
What strategies serve to combat the rise of fascism in contemporary society? How to distinguish between legitimate criticism of fascism and the misapplication of the term in political discourse? Examples showing the transition from bourgeois democracy to fascist rule. These and other aspects are explored by The Prisma in its new series ‘Fascism’.
The successful social protest made invisible by the media
After the demonstrations in Colombia called by the Gustavo Petro government on 18 March, the mass media did not recognise their massive scale. Germán Ayala Osorio The Noticias Caracol news programme, for example, avoided as much as possible making reference to the number of people who came out […]
The Dalits, relegated to the fringes of society
Citizens struggle to overcome an age-old dogma that keeps them pinned under the foot of social order. The caste system as one of the defining marks of Indian culture. However, for those born into a society at the bottom of the caste ladder, there is a line where culture ends and oppression begins.