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 […]
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Immigrants: besieged, persecuted and stigmatised
The Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies create fear and concrete consequences for immigrants in the USA. The growing climate of insecurity is illustrated by cases like that of a Mexican student mistakenly arrested, a Cuban rapper threatened with deportation and the withdrawal of visas for artists and foreign students. […]
George Floyd, still an open wound
The suffering of Floyd until he died was recorded on video. His cry for help, “I can’t breathe”, while police officer Remove featured image Derek Chauvin asphyxiated him, became the slogan of mass protests in the United States. The murder happened 5 years ago in Minneapolis, a city in Minnesota, […]
“Fugitives from the Matrix”
In last week’s The Prisma, Claudio Chipana Gutiérrez made the case for positive forms of identity and Louisa Yousfi in “In defence of barbarism: Non-whites against the Empire” does something similar by defending the value of barbarism. Sean Sheehan Reading Kateb Yacine, the writer who came from the […]
A topic that is becoming a recurrent one for me
I see it ever Sunday on the Dominican TV channel where they love to tell us: “Heroes are different people”. Proving that not much has changed in seventy years, only the tools used, that with it: “General Winter”, will be a future metaphor of Nothingness. Armando Orozco Tovar […]
















