Sex workers, trade unionists, women’s and human rights organisations were briefing MPs against a Ten-Minute Rule Motion to criminalise sex workers’ clients, being read in Parliament last week. English Collective of Prostitutes The motion, tabled by Diana Johnson MP, proposes a Bill to “criminalise paying for sex” and […]
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Covid: chaos and death on the old continent
Twice declared the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic, Europe experienced a turbulent 2020 that put its response capacity to the test and brought numerous structural failings to light. And the continent will begin 2021 not having managed to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 nor to achieve its long-pursued regional unity. […]
The year of darkness in Bolivia
The 11 months of 2020 governed by the coup plotters in Bolivia re-opened wounds that had been closed since 2006 with the accession to power of the first indigenous president. Hence, his people took to the streets to defend the democracy they regained at the polls on 18th October. […]
The tourism industry, on a knife edge
Tourist demand will take a maximum of five years to recover. Tourist arrivals could fall globally by 50% in 2020, due to the Covid-19 corona virus, which will require “innovative solutions”. However, despite the circumstances, there are other optimistic outlooks. Roberto F. Campos The power of resilience in […]
Unfolding the politics of memory
Writing about Kafka, Walter Benjamin explains how the word ‘unfolding’ has two meanings: a bud unfolds into a blossom while a paper boat unfolds into a flat sheet of paper. Sean Sheehan Two years later, writing “The storyteller”, he says how storytelling, rooted in oral tradition, allows the […]
















