Resources

• Algérie : 60 ans plus tard, que reste-t-il des décrets de mars 1963 sur l’autogestion ?
  29 mars, par siawi3

  Une expérience aujourd’hui souvent méconnue, qui marqua pourtant son époque et eut un impact non négligeable dans de nombreux autres pays par la suite.

• An Ordinary Man in an Extraordinary Situation: ‘Defying Hitler’ by Sebastian Haffner
  23 March, by siawi3

  This book speaks to the ordinary Indian, the one who chooses not to take the fight to the streets, but challenges their close relatives, acquaintances and colleagues in the safety of closed rooms, till they realise that some are beyond reason, drunk on hate.

• France : Lâcheté et lynchage : on a lu « Le sacrifice de Rushdie » du psychanalyste Fethi Benslama
  23 mars, par siawi3

  « Depuis Les Versets sataniques c’est le temps des égorgeurs. » Benslama explore la nature du « sacrifice » de l’écrivain et l’ampleur de la lâcheté qui enveloppe toute l’affaire.

• Mary Wollstonecraft: an introduction to the mother of first-wave feminism
  23 March, by siawi3

  Neither Paine nor most of the French revolutionaries that Wollstonecraft so admired actively extended their thinking to women.

• France : Arte consacre un documentaire à la chanson algérienne « Ya Rayah »
  23 mars, par siawi3

  « Ya Rayah » ou la douleur de l’exil en France

• Italy: The rise of the new fascism
  23 March, by siawi3

  In this new book, Jacobin’s Europe editor David Broder picks apart the story behind the rise of Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia.

• USA: A Regional Reign of Terror - “By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners”
  21 March, by siawi3

  It 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.

• USA: Abolition. Feminism. Now
  21 March, by siawi3

  The authors provide thorough historical contextualization and blueprint for understanding and embodying abolitionist feminism and feminist abolition.

• South Africa: Why the South African Communist Party, despite its proud history, has recently taken a backseat in South African politics.
  25 February, by siawi3

  At 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 .

• UK: Rishi Sunak: The Success Story of a Minority in Britain
  25 February, by siawi3

  If 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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