Isles of the Left

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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Drunken Reflections on the European Parliament Elections

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When was the last time you looked at the world map? What do “Malta f’Qalbna” and “Flimkien għal Pajjiżna” matter on the continental scale? We have every reason to care about larger European politics because we are directly affected by it. [Read more…] about Drunken Reflections on the European Parliament Elections