Resources

• UN, Security Council, USA: Sanctions and Human Rights
  15 April, by siawi3

  Halliday saw at first hand the devastating impact of this policy that had led to the deaths of over 500,000 children under the age of five and hundreds of thousands more older children and adults, and he called the sanctions a genocide against the people of Iraq. The Iraqi sanctions were uniquely punitive and cruel and prolonged and comprehensive.

• France : Les Nostalgériades - Nostalgie, Algérie, Jérémiades
  15 avril, par siawi3

  Un plaidoyer républicain.

• USA: ABOVE THE LAW How “Qualified Immunity” Protects Violent Police
  13 April, by siawi3

  As the nation’s attention focuses on the terrible consequences of police violence, a new book raises vital questions about the immunity from prosecution of those responsible.

• Resource on blasphemy law in Pakistan and on Christian converts
  13 April, by siawi3

  2 extensive documents on blasphemy laws

• USA: A History Of The Espionage Act And How it Ensnared Julian Assange
  13 April, by siawi3

  From its earliest years the United States has found ways to deny the rights of a free press when it was politically expedient to do so. While Assange is the first journalist indicted for possessing and disseminating classified information there is a long history of prosecuting speech in America.

• Rosa Luxemburg and postcolonial criticism A RECONSIDERATION
  13 April, by siawi3

  By giving detailed accounts of the British economic atrocities in India, and French colonialism in Algeria, Rosa Luxemburg anticipated the more detailed accounts of postcolonial theories by decades. By bringing the presumed margins of self-centering Europe to global consciousness, she enabled the postcolonial theorist a veritable voice at the worldwide gathering of critical Marxist thinking

• Palestine : Ghassan Kanafani, anticolonialiste, écrivain et journaliste
  4 janvier, par siawi3

  « Établir un seul et même État, sur la base d’une nouvelle société, laïque et fondée sur la justice sociale, en Palestine. » Son refus des discussions entre un mouvement de libération et un occupant colonial, ou « une conversation entre l’épée et le cou », comme il le dit, ne souffre d’aucune ambiguïté.

• Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture: The first black superhero of the modern age
  3 January, by siawi3

  Black Spartacus: This biography of revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture could not be more timely.

• UK: Working class heroes
  30 December 2020, by siawi3

  Tariq Ali was a close friend and comrade of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, whom he interviewed for the Trotskyist The Red Mole in 1971. This interview is the finest piece on the radicalism of John & Yoko in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Here, Ali remembers a few episodes from his “street fighting years.”

• USA: New Book Digs Into Government Files to Keep Alive Memory of Radical Folk Artists
  28 December 2020, by siawi3

  “The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA, 1939-1956.” by Aaron J. Leonard.

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