Brazilian migrant slavery in Portugal

João Cabral de Melo Neto’s 1955 verse drama ‘Death and Life of Severino’ accompanies Brazilian migrants in Portugal. Having fled violent crime, they seek freedom yet commonly find a life of servitude and institutional violence, where only art provides solace from poverty and hunger.

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While book publishing is an ailing industry, children’s books are booming. But political attacks and censorship are also threatening this thriving sector.

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Instrumentalizing summer camps

From the Soviet Union to Russia’s war against Ukraine

Ex-USSR youth pioneer camps – once heavily supervised yet remembered surprisingly positively – have become sites of trauma, where Ukrainian children are being deported en masse, incarcerated and re-educated. The complex legacy that Russia is exploiting encompasses infrastructure, ideology and personal memory, raising questions about the role of individuals in implementing state policy.

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Liberty on the line

Index on Censorship 2/2025

Free speech in the US: how book bans are targeting independent thought; why Trump’s assault on education imitates Erdoğan’s; what the closure of Radio Free Asia means for the region’s information space; and how American liberals can learn from Soviet dissidents.

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Philosophy and the bomb

Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 8/2025

Karl Jaspers, Günther Anders and the nuclear dichotomy; how Israel’s allies have abandoned the Iranian opposition; and EU asylum policy ten years on from ‘Wir schaffen das’.

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Crises past and present

Vikerkaar 6/2025

Vikerkaar on why grey rhinos are riskier than black swans when it comes to epochal crises; how the Estonian government averted a crisis of state by crushing fascism in 1934; and why Estonia’s AI enthusiasm may provoke a crisis of education.

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The European Parliament elections on 9 June are a referendum on EU policy since 2019. Will voters give Europe the green light for further progress, or pull the brakes? A new Eurozine series measures the political atmosphere in the EU and its neighbourhoods at this crucial moment.

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Food and water systems under pressure: as the end of abundance becomes an everyday experience in Europe, we are thinking more closely about how our food reaches the table.

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Post-revolutionary Ukrainian society displays a unique mix of hope, enthusiasm, social creativity, collective trauma of war, radicalism and disillusionment. With the Maidan becoming history, the focal point ‘Ukraine in European Dialogue’ explores the new challenges facing the young democracy, its place in Europe, and the lessons it might offer for the future of the European project.

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Some observers, recalling the disasters of the 1920s and 30s, are suggesting that an anti-democratic counterrevolution on a global scale has begun. But is the writing really on the wall? Or does declinism prevent us from recognizing moments of democratic renewal?

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