Category: politics
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The Powerless Educator, part 2
A powerless educator is an unhappy and unhealthy educator. This is not to say that an educator should enjoy absolute freedom; that is a privilege that nobody in reality has or should have. There is freedom for, and freedom to, and a delicate balance in between that cannot realistically be broken without unfortunate consequences. But…
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“Guns don’t kill people…”
I am horrified by what happened in Texas and all the other arguments surrounding it. Now I will not pretend to be an expert on the American context. First off, as a friend of mine perfectly put it earlier this week, the “American context” is moreover a state-by-state reality rather than a single monolith as…
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You have to be yea high to enter…
The Maltese Electoral system is a joke. This is no more evident than the amount of money being spent on the electoral campaigns alone, which is in itself a reflection of the inequalities hardwired within the system; perhaps an expression thereof, I may dare say. This is for so many reasons; First, the Maltese law…
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A Step towards Self-Advocacy
It is no secret that most educators find themselves deluded by what unions they are offered. Having adopted a largely half-baked approach to protecting educators and education as a whole as discussed elsewhere, it is fairly obvious that we need a third alternative. I am not here to propose a third union. That would be…
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Politics of the Self in Everyday Life
I have spoken about my friends fairly often on this platform. It is extremely overlooked that our political beliefs leak into our everyday behavior if we adhere to an integral structure of the self, with each identity within us being informed by a core tenet.Sadly, the perception of the “otherness” of the self as a…
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“The Reader” and “Just A Job”.
I have a confession to make. Two of them really. I will get to the second later. I warn you, this gets quite emotional for me. The first is this: Throughout my life, I have worked many jobs for a person of my age. A lot of them were over a short span of time…
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Beings Of Glass Shards
Following the death of Polish student Paulina Dembska and the mother and daughter victims Lourdes and Angele Bonnici from Ħal Għaxaq, the inevitable and justified outcry against domestic violence especially that perpetrated against women escalated to the extent where the local parliament has toyed with the idea of introducing femicide as an offense. As is…
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Tal-Linja and the concept of Private Property
One of the greatest dismissals of socialism here in the west is the misconception that socialism abolishes all personal property. This is a myth. In socialism, there is a difference between private property and personal property. In what is probably an intentioned denigration of the idea, people sadly conflate the two here in the west.…
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