Voices
Regardless of Season, Playing Ping-Pong with People’s Lives is Unacceptable!
When we focus our arguments on the bad weather and on the Christmas season, we downplay the significance and severity of the actual issue, which then fades from the fore of public debates.
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Valletta and Our Common Good: City Lounge vs Residents’ Resistance
For well over a year, City Lounge has abused our common good in order to increase their own commercial activity. However, citizens have not become used to the realization that one of our fellows is abusing the common good for their own enrichment.
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[LISTEN] Discussing White Paper: Towards Affordable Housing in Malta
Isles of the Left met with three members of the Research and Policy team at the Parliamentary Secretariat for Social Accommodation to discuss various aspects of the White Paper.
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Why Malta Urgently Needs Social Enterprises
In the situation where the state resigned from assisting the people in need, social enterprises and NGOs have no option but to tackle the issue by themselves. [Read more…] about Why Malta Urgently Needs Social Enterprises
Life on the Periphery of Maltese Society
Beyond the rhetoric of wellbeing, equality and social prosperity, there are many in our society who are pushed to the margins on the basis of the colour of their skin, sexual orientation or gender identity, religion, disability, or lack of access to wealth and other resources. Or because we make it difficult for them to fit in.
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GWU Secretary General on the New Proposals for Work Conditions Regulations
GWU-Youths spoke to Josef Bugeja, General Workers’ Union Secretary General, to learn more about the new proposals and how they can become laws.
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‘Landings’: Art Talks Petrol Stations
‘Landings’ is an artistic response to the outpouring number of petrol station applications, other deals with property, shoddy business and the issues of land use. [Read more…] about ‘Landings’: Art Talks Petrol Stations
Christian Religion, Identity and Marxism: Can They Be Compatible?
Dom Franzoni died on the 13th of July 2017. He had founded the San Paolo Base Community in Rome. This interview commemorates his thoughts and achievements.
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