Chatter Box

Funeral Procession: The Massacre of Art

Isn't it ironic that whilst Malta is supposed to be celebrating culture through the The Malta Arts Festival, art is still being censored? Some paintings by Aleksandar Stankovski have just been banned from being exhibited in the Gozo Arts Festival. Jasmina Kotevska, who arranged to have these paintings exhibited was told by the person organising the art exhibition that the paintings were banned after a report was filed to the Ministry of Gozo. These paintigns had already been exhibited in Macedonia without problems. You can see the paintings by joining our Facebook Group http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=409552055022&ref=ts

Ir-Realta Issue 10 Out Now

The tenth issue of Ir-Realta' is out now and can be collected from Students House at the University of Malta. The newspaper will also soon be available at Island Books of Mosta. Those who would like to receive a copy by post must send an email to realta@inventati.org

Ir-Realta' is currently celebrating its fifth year since its inception. From a an unknown and small group of people, the Collective has developed into a group which boasts the support of hundreds of supporters and many talented contributors. The newspaper has matured with the years and the content is constantly getting better.

Now the Collective is in a comfortable position to look back and analyse its progress and develope its projects to achieve its aim in a more efficient manner which  has also been to create a critical voice in our society. 

At this point I would like to thank our readers who without them, the newspaper wouldn't even exist. 

The Editor

Ir-Realta' Collective Files Judicial Protest Against Rector Juanito Camilleri

We have today filed a judicial protest against the Rector, Juanito Camilleri, for destroying Ir-Realta' Issue 8 which was deposited at the University Student House and other places in the University. We are also demanding payments for the damages that have been done to our newspapers.
 

Articles

Anti-Fascism, Anti-Racism and Free Speech

It may have come as a big surprise to many individuals who haven't read the Document of Proposals of the Front Against Censorship when they saw me on state television speaking out against Norman Lowell's right for instigating hatred. It seems that Lou Bondi who dedicated at least two programs to Norman Lowell and another program to another self-declared fascist by the name of Jean Gove, thought that the Front Against Censorship is an ultra-liberal movement which is fighting for the absolute right of free speech which would entail that anyone can say what one likes including discourse which can lead to violence.

Bummers of University Unite! You have nothing to lose but your reputation!

In order to explain the reasons for contesting the elections for the University Student Council (KSU), Moviment Indipendenti organised a public meeting in the University Quadrangle three days before the election took place. During this meeting we stated that KSU is not transparent, mainly for not publishing detailed accounts of its finances and hence it would be difficult to confirm whether corruption and dabbling with public finances was taking place. This is not quantum physics and the concept is very simple: if you don't publish your accounts, than you might have something to hide. We didn't throw mud at random towards our adversaries because that isn't part of our code of conduct but we were and still are not afraid to analyse the activities of KSU and describe them in detail after they have chosen to come down like thunder on critical university organisations.

Proportional Representation on Campus

The University based, social-democratic organisation, PULSE is proposing to introduce proportional representation in the electoral system of the University of Malta. Elections are held yearly for the Students Council which is currently controlled by the Student Christian-Democrats organisation. SDM have been occupying KSU for these last years, blocking any representation of other organisations. For example the coalition of different organisations called ACT, failed to elect any of its representatives in KSU despite gathering 46% of the total votes.