Angelo Boccato

The meeting between deputy prime minister and minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini and Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbàn for the launch of their anti-migration manifesto, has deep ramifications, on both a European and national scale.

The Salvini-Orbàn press conference in Milan last week revealed the pair’s desire to strengthen the borders of Fortress Europe, as the two party leaders congratulated each other on their respective “successes”.

The two then presented the rhetoric of an “antti-globalist and anti-elite” front against the globalist one.......

Directorial debut by iconic Black British actor deals with criminality in Jamaica, Windrush and a very groovy Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s - in cinemas Friday, August 31st.

It’s the first time that Idris Elba gets behind the camera. And it’s only natural that cinema-lovers are very curious to see what he makes of the eponymous novel by the Jamaica-born British writer Victor Headley, published by X Press in 1992. The Hackney-born actor-turned-director transports us to 1973 in Jamaica in order...

I was born to an Italian father and a Dominican mother in Santiago de Los Caballeros, and raised by my white Italian family in a village of 4,000 people in Northern Italy.
While I have not experienced racist attacks in my life so far, I have known racist verbal abuse. The mother of a childhood friend of mine once called me “dirty n****r”, after I inadvertently stepped on the flowers in her garden; I was 6 or 7 years old, and that shocked me.
And whenever I have been stopped by policemen or ca...

Would Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements have reached the same audience if they had not supported by the widespread use of hashtags on social media? Also, how important and significant is the online space provided by social media for marginalised groups?

The Pew Research Center published a report “Activism in the Social Media Age” claiming that “roughly half of black social media users say these platforms are personally important to them when it comes to expressing their ...

Karl Marx, del quale ricorre quest'anno il duecentesimo dalla nascita, morì a Londra nel 1883 e, proprio a Londra, da oltre trent’ anni, ha luogo un festival a lui dedicato. Organizzato dal Socialist Workers Party e fondato nel 1977, il Marxism Festival ha cadenza annuale e si svolge sull'arco di quattro giorni.

Diversi i temi affrontati poco meno di un mese fa: dai rifugiati all’ islamofobia, dalle politiche di Trump alla Palestina, con ospiti provenienti non solo dall’ Europa, ma anche da A...

There have been many TV and cinema comic-book adaptations featuring members of marginalised groups in lead roles. “Black Panther” movie based on Marvel Comics character of the same name, featuring predominantly black cast, “has demonstrated the strong economic power of diversity and inclusion on screen.”

But will “Batwoman” prove that a lesbian superhero can be a commercial and critical success?

When it comes to on-screen adaptations, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and ...

It is almost over. There have been some surprises and many disappointments, many fantastic goals. The only unknown now is whether French or Croatian footballers are going home as champions. But what is not leaving the world of sport and sports journalism is racism, sexism and homophobia.

According to anti-discrimination experts advising FIFA, sexism has been a bigger problem than racism at the World Cup in Russia. Fans harassing female broadcasters while they worked are among a...

The American President Donald Trump suspended his policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border after some media and public figures clearly expressed their outrage.

There were also publications that supported Trump’s policy while a photograph taken at the border with Mexico ended up at the cover of the Time magazine showing a child, Trump and the headline “Welcome to America”.

Photographer John Moore captured the image of a two-year-old Honduran...

Everyone is talking about Matteo Salvini, as the new Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, he recently called for a census on Roma people with plans to deport non-Italian Roma. “Unfortunately, we have to keep the Italian Roma,” says Salvini, a leader of the far-right party Lega.

He also made headlines by refusing docking rights to the NGO-run Aquarius rescue boat, which had 629 refugees and migrants on board. Last week the international media analysed his far-right, ...

The British Parliament Home affairs select committee called for a hardship fund to be set up by the government in order to help victims of the Windrush scandal who have fallen into financial difficulties.
“Members of the Windrush generation, who arrived in the UK from 1948, as well as their children, have been wrongly targeted and in some cases left destitute by Theresa May’s “hostile environment” policies, which require employers, NHS staff, private landlords and other bodies to ...

After the Hungarian leader Viktor Orban won a landslide victory at the elections on Sunday, many international media commented on his anti-immigration rhetoric, his image of “Europe’s bad boy” and the challenges that his nationalistic policy poses to the EU liberal values.

The anti-migrant and refugees narrative has been pushed all over Europe proving to be a successful tool for the right and far-right movements. In Hungary, many media outlets supported the anti-immigration ...

Social media had played a big role in the success of Alternative for Germany (AfD), a far-right party that won 13% in elections in September 2017. AfD also had an assistance of Harris Media, a Texas-based advertising agency whose clients include the British party UKIP and Donald Trump.

Their work could be recognised in an advertising campaign featuring an image of bloody tire tracks crisscrossing European cities, from Berlin to Manchester and Barcelona saying “The tracks left....

Country: Italy
The anti-migration and racist politics of the Italian Right, repeatedly echoed by the media, has paid off in the March elections. After a particularly toxic electoral campaign, far-right parties such as Matteo Salvini’s League (Lega) and Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’ Italia) managed to collect more than 20% of the votes.

The campaign was dominated by fearmongering and attacks against migrants, scapegoats of Italy’s economic problems. A social media analysis by...

Think Disney can't get dirty? Think again! Black Panther is a masterpiece of innovation and creativity, with tons of sociopolitical flavours, plus challenging a long-established orthodoxy in the superhero world! In cinemas Tuesday

Fifty-two years after his first appearance on the pages of the Marvel Comics Fantastic Four, T’ Challa the Black Panther and King of Wakanda, the Afro-futurist North-East African country in the Marvel Universe, has finally been honoured with his standalone Marvel St movie (the 18th superhero instalment in the American franchise owned by Disney, and part of Phase 3).