Tag: pn
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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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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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The Rhetorical Trap
In a previous article I analysed how observing the implementation of the previous bus system can be interpreted as a “practical” example of a socialist co-operative, and criticisms thereof. The establishment of the ATP (Awtorita’ Transport Pubbliku), the implementation of itself as more of an administrative power rather than an executive one and its own…
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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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Educator, Education, Educated
The bane of an educator’s existence is to not be able to educate. But what does “to educate” mean? What does “to educate” mean in Malta? What does “to educate” mean in a Church School in Malta? Yes, I know that each school has its own ethos outlining this quite plainly. But it does pay…
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