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Commemorating Sette Giugno in 2019: Calling for Strikes and Workers’ Uprising

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A hundred years later, Sette Giugno events hit close to home. The blatant speculation and unfettered market practices that led to the spike in food prices in 1919 resemble untamed profiteering in Malta’s housing and labour markets in 2019.

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Your Spy-Phone Robs You of Privacy. Here Is How We Can Change That

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Faced with the might of surveillance capitalism, one’s first reaction might be to despair and declare the battle lost. But we’re not done yet. In fact, there’s a lot we can do to tame the surveillance beast, both at the personal and political levels.

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[LISTEN] The Seven Deadly Sins of Lovin Malta

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Raisa Galea talks to Christian Peregin, the founder of Lovin Malta, about the publications’ style, vision and media sensationalism. Together, they discuss Lovin Malta’s dubious coverage of the key recent national events.

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