“Asking Around”: Immigrants' Counterstrategies to Renew Their Residence Permit in Times of Economic Crisis in Italy

In contrast to the main body of literature focusing on irregular migrants' counterstrategies, this article explores regular migrant workers' practices to renew their residence permit in an attempt to circumvent structural hurdles due to the restrictive Italian legislative framework. Studying migrants' agency in a socioeconomic context, characterized by high unemployment rates and extensive informal working patterns, I thus distinguish three main counterstrategies: (1) the use of their informal networks to falsify their working relations; (2) the possibility of starting up an individual firm; and (3) taking advantage of structural “loopholes.”     

“我将无我，不负人民”重要论述的四重意蕴

习近平总书记提出的“我将无我,不负人民”这一重要论述,集中彰显了中国共产党人“以人民为中心”思想的重要理念,其理论品质有四重意蕴：坚持人民主体的世界观,保证人民是权力的主体、发展的主体、实践的主体;坚持服务人民的人生观,一切为了人民,一切依靠人民;坚持人民至上的价值观,以实现人民根本利益为价值旨归,以符合人民期待为价值评价标准,以本国和各国人民福祉的有机统一为价值升华;坚持人民立场的文化观,体现了中国共产党执政为民的党内政治文化,继承了中国优秀传统文化中的“无我”之境和民本思想的精髓,同时也践行了为人民无私奉献的敬业精神。这一重要论述将马克思主义人民观深入贯彻于新时代中国特色社会主义各项事业中,是马克思主义中国化的最新理论成果。     

论劳模精神的时代价值

"爱岗敬业、争创一流,艰苦奋斗、勇于创新,淡泊名利、甘于奉献"的新时代劳模精神,继承了中国人民劳动的先进性和创新性、扬弃了资本主义劳动的外化性和异己性、展现了社会主义核心价值观的核心和精髓,体现出了劳模精神承担着对时代、国家、人民的强烈历史担当。探索弘扬劳模精神新途径,实现弘扬劳模精神制度化,必须始终坚持马克思主义在意识形态领域指导地位的根本制度,坚持以社会主义核心价值观引领文化建设制度。     

The subjective and objective violence of terrorism: analysing “British values” in newspaper coverage of the 2017 London Bridge attack

This article examines how ?i?ek’s analysis of “subjective” violence can be used to explore the ways in which media coverage of a terrorist attack is contoured and shaped by less noticeable forms of “objective” (symbolic and systemic) violence. Drawing upon newspaper coverage of the 2017 London Bridge attack, it is noted how examples of “subjective” violence were grounded in the externalisation of a clearly identifiable “other”, which symbolically framed the terrorists and the attack as tied to and representative of the UK Muslim community. Examples of “systematic” violence were most notable in the ideological edifice that underpinned this framing but also in the ways in which newspaper reports served to draw upon British values in the aftermath of the attack. This directed attention away from the contradictions within the UK, towards narratives that sought to “fix” these contradictions through eradicating the problem of “the other” and/or by violently protecting the British values “they” seek to undermine. As a consequence, newspaper coverage worked to uphold the illusion that “peace” could be achieved by eradicating terrorism through further forms of objective violence, including, internment without trial; the “ripping up” of human rights; and closer surveillance of Muslim communities. Indeed, it was this unacknowledged violence that worked to maintain British values in the press' coverage.     

Media corruption and issues of journalistic and institutional integrity in post-communist countries: The case of Bulgaria

From a normative standpoint the media are usually seen as one of the pillars of a national integrity system, entrusted with the tasks of exposing and preventing acts of corruption and educating the public of the harm caused by corruption. Nevertheless, corruption continues to be one of the most significant challenges that Europe faces, undermining citizens' trust in democratic institutions and weakening the accountability of political leadership. Evidence suggests that in fragile EU democracies such as Bulgaria, despite more than eight years of full membership and numerous preventive measures, corruption is rife and the press is hardly capable of exposing abuses of power or authority. On the contrary - drawing on in-depth interviews with 35 Bulgarian journalists - this paper argues that since communism collapsed in the late 1980s the media in post-communist societies such as Bulgaria has gradually become an instrument to promote and defend private vested interests, and is plagued by corruption. Senior journalists and editors cast serious doubt over the ability of the post-communist free press and journalism to act as a watchdog for society.     

坚持中国特色反腐倡廉道路不动摇

从党的七届二中全会毛泽东倡导"两个务必"开始,到改革开放新时期的邓小平、江泽民、胡锦涛,把反腐倡廉与党的建设、与改革开放和社会主义现代化建设紧密结合在一起,在理论和实践方面丰富和充实了反腐倡廉建设的内容,形成了中国特色反腐倡廉道路。在新世纪新阶段,坚持中国特色反腐倡廉道路不动摇,是贯彻落实十七届四中全会精神的需要。     

反思与重塑:社会主义核心价值体系建设进程中的信仰养成

社会主义核心价值体系的构建与民族信仰重塑具有同构性和同步性,崇高的民族信仰能为建设社会主义核心价值体系提供强有力的精神支撑和思想保障,社会主义核心价值体系的思想精髓能为民族信仰重塑提供理论支撑和精神导向。当前社会变迁,信仰体系的嬗变一定程度上导致了民族信仰的错位和缺失,严重削弱了人们对社会主义核心价值观的认同感和归属感,因此应在稳步推进社会主义核心价值体系建设的同时,加快民族信仰重塑的步伐。     

重新认识社会主义市场经济条件下的集体主义价值观

在社会主义市场经济条件下,在处理个人与社会、个体与整体的价值关系问题上,仍然必须坚持集体主义的价值观。但是,这种集体主义价值观与传统意义上的集体主义价值观是相区别的。在新形势下,我们不但要对集体主义价值观的内涵做出新的阐释,而且要遵循集体主义价值观的建构原则。     

An Impasse of Reconciliation in Guo Shaoyu’s Theory “Writing as a Vehicle of Values”

As the founder of the basic research paradigm on “writing as a vehicle of Values” in modern China, Guo Shaoyu established a tri-partite notion consisting of “writing to conform to values”, “writing as a vehicle of values” and “writing to illustrate values”, and this practice has influenced several generations of scholars. However, his approach, which draws heavily on Western literary theory, cannot reveal the original meaning of “writing as a vehicle of values” due to its failure to consider its features and the fact that this notion came into being as a result of “literature miscellaneous”. It is necessary to return to the notion on the ontological level so as to better understand the uniqueness of classical Chinese ideology resulting from China experience which, in turn, is made possible only by Chinese actualities.     

核心价值体系与和谐文化建设

社会主义核心价值体系的提出,是对马克思主义关于社会理论的发展和创新,又丰富和发展了中国特色社会主义的理论与实践,为社会主义和谐文化建设指明了方向,明确了要求,规定了任务。