revolution

Articles

• Street Theater and the Politics of Radical Democracy in India and in Algeria
  6 September 2014, by siawi3

  A comparison between Katek Yassine’s and Safdar Hashmi’s street theater: their choices, conditions of work, theoretical analysis, risks, outreach.

• USA: “The Counter-Revolution of 1776”
  2 August 2014, by siawi3

  What emerges from “Counter-Revolution” is a picture of courage, heroism and betrayal. Most importantly, it is a history that accounts for the fact that so many “advances” of democracy in the United States have been at the expense of Africans and their descendants, people brought in chains to the shores of the United States.

• “Towards a Gay Communism”
  1 January 2019, by siawi3

  A review of the new English republication of “Towards a Gay Communism” (1977) by the Italian gay liberation activist and writer Mario Mieli.

• Iraq: Islam is not part of our genetic make-up.
  10 December 2017, by siawi3

  How does it sound if we call Westerners “good Christians”, “bad Christians”, “people of Christian heritage” or “secular Christians”? The answer is that you cannot label people from a certain geographical area in such a way. In my view this carries racist connotations and is disempowering and patronizing. There are so many ordinary citizens from the Middle East who do not identify with any of the terminologies mentioned above. Instead, they want Islam to be kept out of politics.

• Kurdistan: Sakine Cansiz 1958 – 2013
  24 January 2019, by siawi3

  Sakine Cansız operated under the code name ‘Sara’ within Kurdish nationalist movements and a trailblazer for women’s leadership in radical and nationalist movements. A controversial figure, she was one of the founders and the first senior female member of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party).

• Egypt: Yara Sallam on human rights and women’s rights
  3 July 2014, by siawi3

  Defending women’s rights and the revolution in Cairo today

• Original Art is dangerous: interview with Tunisian filmmaker Nadia El Fani.
  28 April 2015, by siawi3

  “original art is never created in the safe middle ground, but always at the edge. Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes, disrespects sacred cows or other such entities.

• Algérie : La révolution algérienne vue par deux combattantes de l’indépendance
  10 juin 2019, par siawi3

  Deux Moudjahidate, voient la situation actuelle en Algérie comme une conséquence du conflit interne au FLN, à l’été 1962, juste après l’indépendance. Cette révolution confisquée annonce la primauté du militaire sur le civil.

• USA: Colleges Becoming Civil Rights Battlegrounds Once Again
  25 November 2015, by siawi3

  Race is just one of a trio of issues that are igniting American college campuses. The others are sexual assault and the soaring cost of higher education.

• Algérie : La presse rend hommage à la moudjahida Djamila Amrane
  14 février 2017, par siawi3

  La moudjahida Djamila Amrane (Danielle Minne) est décédée hier, chez elle, à Alger, à l’âge de 77 ans. Fille aînée de la défunte moudjahida Jacqueline Guerrouj, elle était connue pour avoir déposé, en compagnie de la moudjahida Zahia Kharfallah la bombe à la cafétéria L’Otomatic à Alger. Elle avait rejoint le FLN alors qu’elle avait à peine 17 ans. On lui doit beaucoup d’ouvrages, de poèmes et de témoignages sur la Guerre de Libération.

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