Seeking to ‘glimpse the gentle law that guides the human race’ is a lofty if probably unattainable aspiration but the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868), in the preface to the stories that make up his “Motley stones”, imputes such a desire to all of us. Sean Sheehan The […]
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NATO seeks to reassert its hegemonic status
Founded in 1949, under the pretext of containing the danger of the Soviet Union, barely four years after the victory of the anti-fascist alliance in World War II, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is adding new ingredients in order to present itself as relevant. The organisation is now […]
Multiculturalism in Azerbaijan
As a multicultural country, this nation promotes intercultural dialogue within and outside the country, regarding the existence of a people as the result of the civil and political self-determination of its constituent peoples. Khayala Mammadova* Azerbaijan is populated by representatives of over 30 national minorities such as Talysh, […]
Building solidarity to win
The country has been hit by a wave of threatened redundancies, cuts, unemployment. In response UCU members are fighting back, they are working together in an attempt to halt, and even prevent, some of these plans from being carried out. Elle McHale Across the country, UCU branches are […]
No end to the repression in Chile
Tensions are increasing in Chile. Since October 2019, something that many had been waiting 30 years for became possible thanks to the power of the people: the possibility to change a constitution handed down from Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990). Pierre Lebret* Gustavo Gatica, a young student that lost […]