On June 13, 2023: Alarm Phone received the first call from the Adriana, an overcrowded boat in distress carrying about 750 people that departed from Libya towards Europe. In the hours that followed, our volunteers alerted competent authorities and attempted several times to reach the people in distress, sometimes successfully […]
Politics
Carolina Corcho: Colombia’s next Sheinbaum?
A doctor, former minister and feminist, she visited Paris to listen to the diaspora and propose their genuine inclusion in politics. In this exclusive interview with The Prisma, she talks about her presidential aspirations, challenges corporate media, defends social reforms and advocates for strengthening participatory democracy against the power of the elites.
When children were evacuated from wars
The filmmaker’s mother is now 92, so telling the story of her evacuation to safety was urgent for her daughter. Those children who went to the USSR remained there for 20 years, for political reasons, returning as strangers to families that had lost contact with them. Post-memory trauma affects the next generation and is well-known in Spain.
Fascism: A plebeian revolution and a mass movement
The Prisma series: Fascism is a distinct phenomenon of modern capitalism. There were no fascist regimes in the world until Mussolini’s dictatorship emerged in the 1920s. Before this period, humanity had experienced 6,000 years of various repressive states, none of which could be classified as fascist. Fascists are considered “low-born”.
The Prisma series: Fascism, just another word for “repression”?
The term “fascist” is often misused to label anyone with right-wing views, including figures like Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Giorgia Meloni and Recep Erdogan. Clearly defining fascism is crucial; we cannot effectively combat an enemy we cannot recognise. Yonatan Mosquera To defeat fascism, we must first […]
















