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Mafalda turns 62 in 2026 while political humour dissolves into algorithms. In September 1964, the Argentine magazine “Primera Plana” published the first strip of a six-year-old girl who hated soup and asked uncomfortable questions. Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, known as Quino, born in Mendoza in 1932, had spent years selling drawings without much success. That character became one of the most influential critical voices in Latin American culture. The strip was born in a context of military dictatorships, the Cold … Read more

Imperialism is not a univocal phenomenon. From its economic dimension to its cultural imprint, the theories that analyze it offer an indispensable map for understanding how global domination is perpetuated. The classical economic tradition situates imperialism as a structural necessity of capitalism. Karl Marx pointed out in volume III of Capital that the falling tendency of the rate of profit pushes capital to expand beyond national borders: colonization thus becomes an escape valve for a system that needs markets and … Read more

Enshittification of digital content platforms has ceased to be a suspicion and become a reality as evident as it is unbearable. The reaction of digital citizens is predictable: piracy is once again a rational tool for accessing culture and, above all, for preserving digital heritage. The phenomenon has figures. Global visits to piracy sites went from 130 billion in 2020 to more than 216 billion in 2024 (MUSO), a 66% increase. In 2025 there was a decrease to 185.6 billion, … Read more

On 27 February 2026, Pakistan’s Defence Minister, Khawaja Asif, announced the start of a military offensive against Afghanistan under the label “open war”. The operation, codenamed “Ghazab lil-Haq” (“Just Fury”), began just one day before the United States and Israel launched their joint offensive against Iran. Since then, while international attention has focused on the Middle East conflict, a silenced war has taken hold on the border between two neighbouring nations that had been strategic allies for decades. The escalation … Read more

I struggle without hope and, precisely for that reason, it is certain that I will never desert.” Perhaps few phrases capture so well Xosé Manuel Beiras’ way of understanding politics and social transformation. For Beiras, hope was not about waiting. It was a force capable of setting people in motion, of turning them into agents of their own history and of opening up possibilities where there seemed to be nothing but resignation. Today, we want to bid farewell to one … Read more

The legacy of imperialism shapes the present. Understanding its evolution is a necessary tool for analyzing the geopolitical and economic tensions of the 21st century. A chronological journey reveals how dynamics of domination adapted to the times. The Berlin Conference (1884-1885) was one of the major events of contemporary history, marking the division of the globe into spheres of influence and the partition of the African continent. Under the justification of social Darwinism and civilizing paternalism, the United Kingdom, France, … Read more

Frostpunk is a strategy and social management video game developed by the Polish studio “11 bit studios”, released in 2018 for PC and a year later for consoles. Set in a new global glaciation that caused the collapse of civilizations, the player takes on the role of leader of a group of refugees trying to survive in the last city on Earth, New London. The game’s premise transcends simple city-building: it is a social management simulation where every political decision … Read more

At ECOAR))), a solidarity-based participation is sought. To understand it, it is necessary to know the models that precede it. Leadership, understood as the role of those who lead the group toward its objectives, influences which of them becomes consolidated. This article describes the gradation that goes from selfishness to altruism in social collectives. The selfish model places personal benefit at the centre. Participation is instrumental: the collective is used to obtain advantages, reputation or contacts. Leadership tends to be … Read more

Its broadcast became a historic event: on January 17, 2015, nearly 569,000 viewers (a 20% share) followed the story of the 4F case, an exorbitant figure for Channel 33. The documentary had toured festivals and community centers, and now it reached the public on a much larger scale. The anticipation was no coincidence. Days earlier, a court in Barcelona ordered five minutes of the feature film to be cut, claiming it violated the right to honor of a former police … Read more

Tomorrow marks the start of the annual G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France. Its members are Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, which together hold around 60% of the world’s economic wealth. They meet every year to organise the capitalist direction of the world, becoming a tool of militarisation in the service of multinational corporations. The meeting takes place in a context of deep geopolitical tensions that will make it difficult for the … Read more