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• UK - USA: Lesser evilism is back
  7 November 2020, by siawi3

  Seeing a centrist would-be president like Biden struggle against an obviously far-right serving president like Trump tells an important story: the centre has no answer to the big questions at home or in the US. Lesser evilism is back. But politics is too important to be left to centrists and conservatives.

• L’Espagne tente d’exhumer les crimes du franquisme avant qu’il ne soit trop tard
  8 novembre 2020, par siawi3

  « Nous assistons à l’essor électoral d’un discours politique à tendance fasciste. Ceux qui le prononcent mènent une guerre culturelle brutale qui nie les réalités de la dictature. Le négationnisme franquiste attente aux bases de l’état de droit et de la démocratie. »

• USA: Millions of Americans have risen up and said: democracy won’t die on our watch
  8 November 2020, by siawi3

  Every maneuver by Trump and his enablers to block voting was met with a more powerful and effective counter-maneuver by citizens. It had to be.

• Identity politics, the far right, and masks
  14 November 2020, by siawi3

  On the right, identity politics is leveraged to deliberately divide and fracture workers, pitting them against each other, most frequently on the basis of race, gender, religion, or nationality. The left variant of identity politics, a politics that over-emphasises individual identity and difference over the potential to unite disparate groups under shared class interests, leaves much to be desired. Nevertheless the focus on identity and difference is necessary, even if it served as an over-correction to certain historical tendencies on the left that treated the working class as a homogeneous, abstract, uniform mass.

• France : Idéologie et université : déni ou droit à la recherche ?
  16 novembre 2020, par siawi3

  Les tensions au sein de l’université autour des thèses dites « décoloniales » ne sont pas neuves. On les a vues à l’œuvre lors de la tentative d’interdiction de la pièce d’Eschyle les suppliantes à la Sorbonne en mars 2019 dont cette émission s’était d’ailleurs fait l’écho. Mais le débat est devenu brûlant depuis l’assassinat de Samuel Paty le 16 octobre dernier, et surtout depuis les déclarations du ministre de l’enseignement Jean-Michel Blanquer qui ont suivi.

• USA: Police say groups arrived in District ‘intent on clashing’ as they assess violent end to Trump rallies
  17 November 2020, by siawi3

  D.C. police said Sunday that nearly two dozen people were arrested, including several on gun charges, as thousands of people converged in downtown Washington on Saturday for a pro-Trump march and rally. One person was stabbed and four police officers were injured.

• In the Middle of End Game of Fascism
  17 November 2020, by siawi3

  Recognising early the symptoms of fascism is a compulsion of our time.

• South Africa: For over four decades, ES Reddy led international opposition to apartheid
  17 November 2020, by siawi3

  His life reflected the best of left internationalism.

• Johann Chapoutot : « Les nazis évoluaient dans un univers qui ressemble curieusement au nôtre »
  23 novembre 2020, par siawi3

  Comment la technocratie nazie a-t-elle pensé l’organisation de l’administration allemande et inspiré le management moderne ?

• USA: Far Right Militias Are Recruting Veterans. We Must Organize Against This Trend
  25 November 2020, by siawi3

  Racism thrives in desperate economic situations, and our profit-based system, enthusiastically endorsed by Biden, is incapable of solving the economic crisis now facing this country.

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