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A woman immigrant’s tireless fight to be with her children again
How long can a mother be forced not to see her children? One year and two months was what the Mexican and British governments made this Mexican woman endure. A hunger strike and a tireless fight made a reunion possible.
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Sleeping with the enemy: Testimony of a battered woman
She has spent a decade being the victim of abuse. She began suffering from abuse before emigrating, and it was in Colombia that she first said “Enough!”. But she forgave her husband and moved to the UK. Once set up in the London capital, the attacks began again and with greater brutality.
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When the body speaks to the noise of the mind
After the Covid-19 nightmare when isolation was imposed on sufferers and relatives alike, the pain and the disorientation linger. Words were blocked then but the body speaks silently, and the short film “Isolation terminal” expresses it through dance and music. Isolation was terminal for many.
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The crisis in the left, the moment for the right
The left was left without a narrative, the same as the middle class itself which now seems to be caught between trying some reformist solution and maintaining the current model without ruling out some updated form of fascism if circumstances require it. The far right’s rebirth would not be possible without the support of the bourgeoisie
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Israel: Apartheid State and a State apart
75 years after the Nakba that expelled Palestinians from their homes, a new Nakba is happening. Western governments blindly censor Palestinian voices. Israel exports its police and military methods to the ‘civilized world’, while South Africa recognizes another Apartheid happening.
United Kingdom & Current affairs
- 1 day agoLatin emigration is fundamentally due to political and economic reasons. But there is another cause which
- 1 day agoWe feel an enormous emptiness when we lose a friend. An emptiness which fills with anguish, and overflows
- 1 day agoBolivian *José A. arrived in the English capital years ago. He left Bolivia in search of satisfying his
- 1 day agoIn a global society characterised by the constant flow of people, the process of integration into another
- 1 day agoThe General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) shot to fame in
Multiculture
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Love in times of immigration
18/03/2024Latin emigration is fundamentally due to political and economic reasons. But there is another cause which allows these two ethnic [...] -
Immigrant and activist with his heart in his home country
18/03/2024Bolivian *José A. arrived in the English capital years ago. He left Bolivia in search of satisfying his own curiosity [...] -
A woman immigrant’s tireless fight to be with her children again
18/03/2024How long can a mother be forced not to see her children? One year and two months was what the Mexican and British governments [...]
- The connection between China and the Hispanic world
- Immigrant stories: racism and work harassment
- Older immigrants: nostalgia and difficulties
Latin America
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We are all immigrants…
18/03/2024In a global society characterised by the constant flow of people, the process of integration into another country brings many [...] -
Forgiveness for a heinous crime against independent journalism
19/02/2024In the midst of the commemoration of Journalists’ Day, the Colombian state belatedly apologised to the country, to the [...] -
The authoritarianism that imposed insecurity
12/02/2024The re-election of Nayib Bukele as president of El Salvador came as no surprise. This does not mean that his government, which [...]
- Argentina: uncertain in the hands of Milei
- The truth about the election of Colombia’s new attorney general
- Living in a violent country
Culture
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Mick Lynch: a trade union hero
18/03/2024The General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) shot to fame in 2022 when his union [...] -
Going back to my roots
11/03/2024This documentary is personal and I hope it resonates with audiences, especially with those who, despite the dark times in which [...] -
Disrupting and reassembling images: Höch and Heartfield
11/03/2024Hannah Höch saw the fractured nature of her society and used photomontage and collage to represent and interrogate it. Becoming [...]
- Poetry and music in the voices of migrants and refugees
- Shattering stereotypes about refugees
- “Julia”: rural memories and identity
Workers
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Immigrants at sea (2): Developing internationalist trade unionism
29/01/2024It is about organising wherever there are migrant, precarious, low-paid or marginalised workers willing to unite. It is about [...] -
A decade for immigrant and vulnerable workers
22/01/2024Grassroots, independent, bilingual and defending the rights of workers in precarious employment, especially migrants and those [...] -
Immigrants at sea in a precarious labour market (1)
22/01/2024In London there are workers of more than 100 nationalities, including native Britons, in precarious conditions. Migrants are [...]
- When big trade unions abandon their precarious workers
- Immigrant workers: racism and work harassment
- Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
United Kingdom
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Love in times of immigration
18/03/2024Latin emigration is fundamentally due to political and economic reasons. But there is another cause which allows these two ethnic [...] -
The philosopher of the street, vagabond prophet
18/03/2024We feel an enormous emptiness when we lose a friend. An emptiness which fills with anguish, and overflows with anger when we [...] -
Immigrant and activist with his heart in his home country
18/03/2024Bolivian *José A. arrived in the English capital years ago. He left Bolivia in search of satisfying his own curiosity [...]
- We are all immigrants…
- The connection between China and the Hispanic world
- Immigrant stories: racism and work harassment
Lifestyle
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Networks of love and hate, especially hate!
26/06/2023Violence motivated by hate speech towards vulnerable groups is rampant on social media, despite the rejection of many people. A [...] -
Re-founding Honduras to re-found education
05/09/2022A United Nations study on education in Honduras, published last June, reveals that since March 2020, some 310,000 students have [...] -
Home learning: classroom revolution
09/11/2020Home learning emerged in the midst of the fight against COVID-19 to ensure that teaching could continue in the Dominican [...]
- The virus cannot kill education
- Children and the internet: what Coronavirus changed
- Latin-American youth: a life marked by violence
Strugles
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Family court collusion with violent fathers
11/09/2023There are devastating impacts of family court orders on mothers and children who had fled domestic violence and/or child abuse. [...] -
Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
31/03/2023The streets of Paris have become the scene of police repression, attacks on the press and popular resistance. Reports of police [...] -
“Stronger as one”, against the climate crisis
27/03/2023The danger of a climate emergency, for which many are to blame, and which must be acted upon, is clear. And it must be faced [...]
- A crash course to conflict
- Disabled people to protest over deaths and neglect in the NHS
- The strikes and the Tories’ repression
World
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There is no solidarity or altruism in capitalism
04/03/2024Mansour Mohammadian is the founder of Economics of the Third Way, a model which proposes a replacement to the current economic [...] -
Jihad: the spiritual struggle and the war
26/02/2024The term Jihad has catapulted into the public consciousness, instigating feelings of fear, violence and above all holy war. [...] -
When genocide becomes entertainment
26/02/2024Has Israel’s national psyche abandoned morality and turned genocide into entertainment? Sul Nowroz / Real Media* It [...]
- Israel-Palestine: censorship of those who speak of genocide
- The crisis in the left, the moment for the right
- Is UNRWA the latest victim of an Israeli smear campaign?
Sports
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Maradona, a universal Latin American
30/11/2020Of Diego Maradona, many things can be said. A restless and therefore multifaceted man, he was not just a football player and [...]