Nationalism

Articles

• Les Suisses votent massivement contre les minarets
  30 novembre 2009, par siawi2
  Source : Libération 29/11/2009 À 14H05 (MISE À JOUR LE 30/11/2009 À 07H46)
  Sur les 26 cantons de la Confédération helvétique, seuls quatre ont rejeté la proposition soutenue par le parti UDC de la droite populiste et le petit parti chrétien de droite  (...)
• India: Vigilantes in Chennai Assault Movie Goers For Not Standing During National Anthem
  15 December 2016, by siawi3

  In the wake of the Supreme Court ordering movie halls to play the national anthem before each screening and for members of the audience to stand at attention for its duration, six people were detained by the police after an altercation at a theatre because they failed to stand up for the national anthem.

• Spain: Social keys in order to unveil separatism in Catalonia
  3 October 2018, by siawi3

  Catexit is a case study regarding nationalism of the rich. The independentist movement provided the atomized and de-politicised Catalan-speaking middle class with a feeling of ethnic and social superiority vis a vis the other half of the population which was mostly made of Spanish-speaking workers coming from the whole of Spain, who lived in the outskirts of the Barcelona metropolis.

• France: L’UMP annule un débat sur l’immigration dans ses locaux
  6 October 2010, by siawi2
  Source: LEMONDE.FR ; 28.09.10
  http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2010/09/28/un-debat-sulfureux-sur-l-immigration-organise-au-siege-de-l-ump_1416929_823448.html
  Photo: AFP/BERTRAND LANGLOIS Des participants, le 4 septembre 2010 place de la  (...)
• Suisse: Nouvelle provocation de la droite populiste
  5 October 2010, by siawi2
  Source: http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2010/10/02/01003-20101002ARTFIG00437-nouvelle-provocation-de-la-droite-populiste-en-suisse.php
  02/10/2010 L’UDC, notoirement xénophobe, a reconnu être à l’origine d’une mystérieuse campagne publicitaire  (...)
• Plato, allegory of cave and Pakistan
  10 May 2016, by siawi3

  We have been chained by our religious and patriotic sentiments. There are a few who rid themselves off the chains of religion and patriotism. Pakistanis accuse these liberated minds of being traitors who are working against the national interests. As Plato predicted, no matter how much you struggle, the ones living inside the cave would never come out the reality someone else has built for them.

• India: Nationalism, secularism and liberalism.
  8 April 2018, by siawi3

  The unprecedented rise of majoritarian politics all around the world has led to volatile debates on the way we define nationalism, secularism and liberalism. While one puts identity and nation first, another frees us to pursue faith, the third involves a commitment to protect minorities.

• India: Using Our Votes to Unveil the Fascists’ Nationalism
  13 April 2019, by siawi3

  The fascist always elevates his own nation and people above others to establish a false sense of superiority. They try to establish the supposed supremacy of their race, heritage, history, or scriptures. They openly suppress opposition within the nation; any dissent or protest is met with crushing force. In a fascist regime, regressive nationalism takes centre-stage.

• Europe’s Refugee Story Has Hardly Begun
  3 February 2016, by siawi3

  With a million new refugees expected in Europe this year, Greece faces a diplomatic onslaught and an existential crisis. So there are only two variables: what the EU does next and what the European peoples do. Quietly, and without rhetoric, one of the most spectacular, cross-border solidarity movements ever formed has emerged to help the refugees.

• Afghanistan and the USA
  4 May 2010, by siawi2
  interview by Sonali Kolhatkar
  Source: Alternet, May 3, 2010
  http://www.alternet.org/story/146714/time_magazine%27s_sneaky_way_of_muffling_the_message_of_an_afghan_peace_activist
  Time Magazine’s Sneaky Way of Muffling the Message of an Afghan  (...)

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