Equal Times

15 April 2024

Eight decades after the Spanish Civil War, is Spain’s slow exhumation of its traumatic past a signal that it is ready to build “a culture of memory?

The search for persons disappeared during the Spanish Civil War, a search backed by the United Nations and overshadowed by political debate, has resulted in the exhumation of just 800 mass graves over the last two decades, out of a total of around 3,500. It is a fragile advance that risks being [...]Read the full article

Enrico Somaglia of EFFAT: “What some call red tape is for us, a red line”

9 February 2024

Labour

Enrico Somaglia of EFFAT: “What some call red tape is for us, a red line”

“It’s very easy to address all your frustrations to the EU and Brussels bureaucrats. But as a trade union representing agricultural workers, we defend the Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy. We believe they can help us make the sector more sustainable and, from a social point of view, they [...]Read the full article

Verónica Gago, essayist: “Inflation is driving what is happening and pulverising everything else”

16 October 2023

Politics & economy

Verónica Gago, essayist: “Inflation is driving what is happening and pulverising everything else”

The success of the far right in Argentina “cannot be separated from a critical political and economic situation [with galloping inflation] that makes you feel like your income is losing value from one minute to the next. It’s a daily battle through the economy, which causes tremendous [...]Read the full article

Israel's far-right government goes all-in as secular Israelis seek a way out

21 April 2023

Human rights

Israel’s far-right government goes all-in as secular Israelis seek a way out

Recent moves by Israel’s right-wing government to weaken the power of the judiciary and further erode human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is pushing the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors to seek EU citizenship and move back to the countries where their grandparents were once [...]Read the full article

For Argentine sociologist Ariel Goldstein: “The growth of evangelical churches is a result of the failure of the state to resolve the major problems that people face”

17 February 2023

Politics & economy

For Argentine sociologist Ariel Goldstein: “The growth of evangelical churches is a result of the failure of the state to resolve the major problems that people face”

Why are evangelical churches in Latin America increasingly influencing the region’s political, social and economic agenda? Argentine sociologist Ariel Goldstein provides some insight into the phenomenon.Read the full article

Across South Asia, online hate speech is increasingly leading to real-world harm

13 July 2022

Human rights

Across South Asia, online hate speech is increasingly leading to real-world harm

Fuelled by politicians and amplified by social media algorithms, hate speech is proliferating online across South Asia. Inflammatory posts garner thousands of views before they are taken down, with offline, sometimes deadly consequences.Read the full article

Ideology and energy: the story of Hungary's geopolitical realignment

30 May 2022

Politics & economy

Ideology and energy: the story of Hungary’s geopolitical realignment

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has reversed his country’s longstanding transatlanticist policy and embraced Putin’s Russia.Read the full article

José Mujica: “Digital civilisation is creating a real disease in representative democracy, and I don't know what the cure is”

16 April 2021

Politics & economy

José Mujica: “Digital civilisation is creating a real disease in representative democracy, and I don’t know what the cure is”

The worst dictatorship in the world could never even dream of having a mechanism that would allow it to get into people’s subconscious, and what’s worse is that it’s in the hands of private companies that sell their services.Read the full article

Even in peaceful countries, journalists are increasingly being identified as ‘public enemies'

3 March 2021

Labour

Even in peaceful countries, journalists are increasingly being identified as ‘public enemies’

Since 2018, most of the murders of journalists no longer occur in countries where there is armed conflict. Now they happen in nominally peaceful nations. Neither criticism from those in power nor populist speeches assassinate journalists directly. However, they do worsen the environment for the [...]Read the full article

1 February 2021

Culture

Understanding the era of emotion

In recent years, neuroscience has demonstrated the powerful role that emotions play in our decision-making – something that brands, social media and politicians have figured out how to exploit.Read the full article

It's time for an alternative approach to migration and asylum policy in Europe

25 September 2020

Development

It’s time for an alternative approach to migration and asylum policy in Europe

Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde: The EU’s current approach is not only censurable for all that it entails in terms of neglect of duty, non-compliance with international commitments and collaboration with the endless atrocities committed by mafias and governments, but also, and all the more so, for the simple reason that it does [...]Read the full article

The murder of Bruno Candé has put racism – and colonial amnesia – under the spotlight in Portugal

11 September 2020

Human rights

The murder of Bruno Candé has put racism – and colonial amnesia – under the spotlight in Portugal

“There is this national fantasy of Portuguese exceptionalism which is maintained by silence and omission. We need to dismantle these fantasies that feed racism and justify exploitation and supremacist ideas.”Read the full article

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