To understand the emergence and growth of far-right parties around the world, and especially in Europe, we need to go back to…
I’m asking the same question that the great Portuguese communist intellectual, Bento Jesus CaraƧa, asked in 1932 and I subscribe to the…
Primo Levi used to say that every era has its own fascism. What is the fascism of our time? I define fascism…
In Europe, the region of the world in which I find myself, within thirty years (between 1914-1945) there were two world wars…
Europe is a small corner of a vast continent called Eurasia stretching from Cape Roca to Cape Dezhnyov ā a vast continent…
It is nowadays pretty much consensual in the social sciences that colonialism did not end with the political independence of the European…
How many years are we away from a new world war? 1932 was not a year of peace. On the contrary, there…
Without soul or memory, Europe is incapable of seeing the similarity between the images of death and destruction in the Warsaw ghetto,…
Since 1964, most of the countries in the Sahel region (a word of Arabic origin, meaning margin, which refers to the northern…
The crisis of journalism has been talked about almost since the beginning of newspapers with large circulation. As early as 1919, Upton…
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