Wounding the “Butterflies”
09/04/2019
In 1949 in Santo Domingo, Minerva Mirabal had the courage to say ‘no’ to the sexual advances of dictator Rafael Trujillo, proceeding to strike Trujillo’s face. She and her two…
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Are we living the 60s and 70s over again? Possibly…but where is the music?
18/02/2019
The 1960s and 1970s were characterised by the spark of two things. First, the spark of legendary music bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and the Queen.…
Marielle Franco’s murder is, who’d say, connected to president Bolsonaro
24/01/2019
Marielle Franco’s murder is, who’d say, connected to president Bolsonaro
Juliana Bastos Marques, interview with a Brazilian academic
22/01/2019
There’s a protest chant in Portuguese that says “Mulheres não voltarão para a cozinha, gays não voltarão para o armário, e negros não voltarão para a senzala” – “Women won’t…
Israel: An Oasis of Democracy or a “Governo Militare” (sic)?
20/01/2019
The revolution of 1821 which paved the way for the Greek independence saw intense internal disputes. In the beginning of the division, a distinguished chieftain from Messinia named Nikitaras stormed…
Book Review: ‘The Left Case against the EU’, by Costas Lapavitsas
26/12/2018
Costas Lapavitsas’ new book ‘The Left Case Against the EU’ is a timely, concise and most readable contribution to the debate about the true nature of the EU. The book…
Can there please be a conversation about Bakari Henderson?
26/11/2018
The 1854 Handbook for Travellers in Greece, published in the Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers series, began by reassuring British travelers that Greece, despite its reputation for bandits, was a relatively…
Free the cleaning woman! A petition for the intervention of Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of the Hellenic Republic
25/11/2018
A cleaning woman has been tried and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Without parole. She is already serving her sentence in a prison in Thebes. The origins of her…
Für die Freilassung der Putzfrau – Für ein Einschreiten des griechischen Staatspräsidenten Prokopis Pavlopoulos
24/11/2018
In Griechenland ist eine Putzfrau vor Gericht gestellt und zu 10 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt worden. Zu zehn Jahren ohne Bewährung. Sie befindet sich bereits im Gefängnis von Theben. Das Verbrechen…
Zak Kostopoulos was beaten to death. So what do we do now?
21/11/2018
Zak Kostopoulos was beaten to death in plain day, before the eyes of the world. While this was obvious to some from the moment the first video began to circulate,…