“No Longer Refugees, But Citizens:” Libyan Refugees Demonstrate in Reggio Emilia A few hundreds of asylum seekers from Libya demonstrated in the northern-eastern town of Reggio…
Migrant stories from Fortress Italy It’s spring, and while most of us are already organising our summer holidays, some people have very different journeys in mind. In Northern…
South African human rights Day Assembly Today has been a particurlarly shit day for me at school and in light of me being lazy about posting the update on Pro Share I thought I could do…
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Here's a video (and links to a couple of other videos) previewing the new documentary about the Chinese artist and political activist, Ai Weiwei,…
Paradoxes of human rights - Robert Kurz Analysis of the paradoxes of the concept of "human rights" under capitalism, which "objectively" defines human rights as a function of the…
Taking Liberties, written and directed by Chris Atkins, 2007. Film review - Tom Jennings Reviews this documentary lambasting Labour's assault on freedom.
The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom - Slavoj Žižek The anxious expectation that nothing will happen, that capitalism will go on indefinitely, the…
Nicaragua set to outlaw abortion Nicaragua is expected to approve a law that outlaws all forms of abortion today.
Against human rights - Slavoj Žižek Alibi for militarist interventions, sacralization for the tyranny of the market, ideological foundation for the fundamentalism of the politically correct: can the ‘symbolic fiction’ of universal rights be recuperated for the progressive politicization of actual socio-economic relations?
