Secularism is a Women’s IssueWhile being moved by the generous intentions which motivated these symbolic actions, we nevertheless take distance from some of these which, in fact, will further increase the alas already prevaling confusion between personal religious faith and communal identity politics. While indeed solidarity is very much needed, we call on well-meaning people to select other symbols when showing solidarity with the Christchurch massacre’s victims. Symbols which would not lead to ideological compromising with the Muslim far-right, under the pretext of fighting the anti-Muslims xenophobic far-right. It would be a major disaster if the racist homicides perpetrated in Christchurch against Muslim believers would, in the end, benefit the Muslim extreme-right. Let’s make sure it does not happen.
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Betraying women and free thought in the name of Christchurch massacres
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CRITIQUE OF MODERN BARBARISM - Essays on fascism, anti-Semitism and the use of history
7 October 2019, by siawi3" In our days, when post-fascist or neo-fascist regimes are in spectacular rise on a planetarian scale, this book is not only timely: it is an indispensable intellectual tool for the resistance against Barbarism.”
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The Brexit working class counter-revolution: British lefties who are rejoicing today risk being engulfed by a right-wing firestorm
5 October 2019, by siawi3Don’t people remember the political language of the Hindutva driven ‘Swadeshi Jagaran Manch’ (SJM) which used to challenge globalization, foreign direct investment? It was difficult in the 1990s to distinguish between the discourse of the Azaadi Bachao Andolan run by the unorganized left, the reactionary SJM and also that of sections of the organised left. That was some time ago. Today, the right wing BJP-led government in India has very successfully pushed its hyper patriotic and ‘spot the antinational’ politics. The left & progressive forces have their swan song ‘nationalism’ saying the nationalism of the right is rotten but ours is good
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Snowden Says Facebook, Instagram Spying On Customers, Wants To Help Combat Surveillance
5 August 2019, by siawi3National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden wants to fight back against corporate surveillance by Instagram and its parent company Facebook, as well as YouTube, which is owned by Google. Earlier in the day Snowden announced a new forthcoming memoir called Permanent Record, due out in September, which will tell all his secrets.
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Meeting Snowden
24 juillet 2019, par siawi3Le temps d’une rencontre inédite, Edward Snowden, Lawrence Lessig et Birgitta Jónsdóttir, figures de la lutte pour les libertés, s’interrogent sur l’avenir de la démocratie. Les influences corruptrices de l’argent sur le processus démocratique.
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On reactionary cosmopolitanism and the internationalism of the far right
5 July 2019, by siawi3Internationalism, a concept that, after all, implicitly presumes the
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The final punishment of Julian Assange reminds journalists their job is to uncover what the state keeps hidden
3 August 2019, by siawi3If we do our job, we will expose the same vile mendacity of our masters that has led to the clamour of hatred towards Assange, Manning and Snowden.
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South Asians: An unspeakable crime
30 July 2019, by siawi3It dawned on me all of sudden that although rape is a threat that families and communities use as a justification for the control and domination of women with South Asian communities, they are unable to use the word. Rape. Even though we know how common sexual violence is within society, we are still unable to say the word rape within our communities.
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India: The Psychological Toll of Being a Soldier
17 July 2019, by siawi3Some of the measures taken by the army to address increasing suicides may help – more leave, better food and infrastructure, increasing interactions with officers and counselling sessions etc. But it is not the physical hardship alone that causes trauma. Until PTSD is taken with the seriousness it warrants, damaged soldiers, their families and society will continue to pay the price.
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Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account In Response To Backlash
20 July 2019, by siawi3After a week of vocal protests from online supporters of Julian Assange, Twitter has reversed its unjust removal of the prominent pro-Assange activism account @Unity4J. “Our job here is very simple: if we can get the mainstream public to start paying attention to the actual mechanisms of empire, oligarchy and oppression, we win. If we can’t, we lose. Everything that doesn’t help us toward this end is a frivolous distraction. The social engineers understand all of this quite clearly. We need to understand it too.”
