Secularism is a Women’s IssueIt is unclear how best to describe the United States in the Jim Crow era, when a quasi-fascist polity was embedded within a putative democracy. Some scholars, drawing on the example of South Africa in the time of apartheid, use the term “Herrenvolk democracy” to describe a situation in which parts of the population enjoy full democratic rights while others are entirely excluded.
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USA: A Regional Reign of Terror - “By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners”
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USA: Abolition. Feminism. Now
21 March, by siawi3The authors provide thorough historical contextualization and blueprint for understanding and embodying abolitionist feminism and feminist abolition.
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South Africa: Why the South African Communist Party, despite its proud history, has recently taken a backseat in South African politics.
25 February, by siawi3At a time when the early, perhaps always over-optimistic expectations, both within the country and globally, for a post-apartheid South Africa have been disappointed, Lodge’s work is a major resource for ongoing, collective academic and activist reflection, discussion, and debate.“Red Road to Freedom, A History of the South African Communist Party 1921-2021”, is a landmark scholarly achievement .
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UK: Rishi Sunak: The Success Story of a Minority in Britain
25 February, by siawi3If Britain was engulfed by a majoritarian ideology, Rishi Sunak would have never become the Prime Minister. It goes to the credit of Britain’s democracy that a young man born to Indian immigrants (a Hindu at that) defeated veterans in an overwhelmingly white constituency and finally moved into 10 Downing Street. All that mattered to the Conservatives and British voters was Sunak’s many qualities.
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An Orgy of Thieves
23 February, by siawi3Neoliberalism, that catch-phrase of our time, is one of those squishy words that resists a simple definition, but everyone feels its meaning as they struggle to pay the rent, put off going to the doctor, gasp for breath in rotten air or see their sons and daughters shipped off to fight distant wars for oil or lithium. Neoliberalism is nothing less than capitalism’s latest and perhaps cruelest manifestation.
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France : Intellectuels fascinés par Hitler et gauche attirée par le nazisme : plongée dans la France collabo
23 février, par siawi3Quatre ouvrages permettent de mieux comprendre les motivations de ceux qui se sont fait les relais de la propagande nazie dans les années 1940.
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’Victory City’ , le dernier roman de Salman Rushdie
23 février, par siawi3Malgré sa nature quasi divine de « prophétesse », Pampa est aussi un personnage de chair et de sang, sujette à la colère et à la jalousie malgré les nobles idéaux qui l’habitent. Elle réussit au départ son pari. Dans son royaume, aucune femme ne vit voilée ni cachée. La tolérance et la bonne intelligence des sexes sont de mise. Mais les ennemis de Pampa et de sa société si différente ne manquent pas. Le plus redoutable est sans doute le temps – motif récurrent dans l’œuvre de Rushdie depuis Les Enfants de minuit.
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Mali Twist / Twist à Bamako (2022) -
22 February, by siawi3Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. The Revolution soon brings painful disillusions
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The New Irrationalism: a conversation with John Bellamy Foster
22 February, by siawi3interview with John Bellamy Foster on his new article, “The New Irrationalism.”
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The New Irrationalism
22 February, by siawi3More than a century after the commencement of the Great Crisis of 1914–1945, represented by the First World War, the Great Depression, and Second World War, we are seeing a sudden resurgence of war and fascism across the globe. In this dangerous context, the very notion of human reason is frequently being called into question. It is therefore necessary to address once again the question of the relation of imperialism or monopoly capitalism to the destruction of reason and the ramifications of this for contemporary class and anti-imperialist struggles.
