Resources

• L’Autre 8 mai 1945, journée nationale de la mémoire en Algérie et épisode dont la reconnaissance officielle est demandée aux autorités françaises
  5 juin, par siawi3

  Une demande croissante de vérité émane de la société civile des deux pays.
  Les massacres de l’Est algérien, le 8 mai 1945, ont été évoqués officiellement par un représentant de l’Etat français le 27 février 2005. En visite à Sétif, l’ambassadeur de France en Algérie, Hubert Colin de Verdière, évoquait « une tragédie inexcusable ».

• Italy: Revisiting the Life and Intellectual Legacy of Primo Levi
  5 June, by siawi3

  The author, anti-fascist partisan, and Nazi death camp survivor Primo Levi died on this day in 1987. His life and the cautious Enlightenment ideology he advanced in his work, Enzo Traverso writes, told the story of the twentieth century and its battles.

• Reimagining Socialism: A Conversation
  4 June, by siawi3

  As socialists, how do we understand the problems created by the capitalist system? How do we locate the root cause(s) of a problem in capitalism as a system? We must ask this whether it’s brutal working conditions, poverty, jobs destruction, massive inequality, gender discrimination, violence against women, the lack of decent housing, or the failure to pay a living wage. Take any one of the thousands of problems that we’re trying to address in organizing workers for collective action and systemic change.

• The Right to Family Life and Civil Marriage Under International Law and its Implementation in the State of Israel
  4 June, by siawi3

  The most severe limitation on the right to family life within Israel relates to the lack of an option to marry in a civil ceremony. While international law recognizes the imposition of certain limitations on the freedom to marry, the additional limitations on the right to marry imposed by Jewish religious law constitute a breach of Israel’s international commitments.

• Free speech and political expendiency
  2 June, by siawi3

  The desire to make social media less obnoxious and universities more open is welcome. The roots of these problems are, however, primarily social and political, not legal or technological – decay of the public sphere, a greater intolerance of views with which we disagree, the broader breakdown of civility, the growth of a more censorious social climate. Incoherent legislation that creates a free-speech bureaucracy opens the way to litigation over “adverse effects” suffered by some speakers and threatens legal sanctions over vague notions of “harm” will neither improve the online experience nor bolster free speech.

• Mein Kampf - une édition critique parait en France
  1er juin, par siawi3

  « Mein Kampf est la description d’une utopie, l’utopie nazie, à la fois raciste, antisémite, autoritaire et belliciste. L’aspect tragique est que Hitler s’est trouvé en situation de la réaliser. » Avec cette parution, c’est une vieille question qui se repose à nous : faut-il connaître le mal pour le combattre ?

• Congo : The making and unmaking of permanent minorities
  31 May, by siawi3

  To view the post-colonial nation state as completely severed from its colonial legacies overlooks and simplifies the intricate connections that were maintained through the economic, financial, political, ideological, and cultural ties.

• L’histoire oubliée du courant « féministe luttes de classe » en France
  31 mai, par siawi3

  Ignoré par les grands médias, le plus souvent caricaturé, méconnu par les jeunes militant-e-s ou chercheur-e-s, le courant « féministe luttes de classe » a été pourtant l’un des plus actifs du mouvement féministe contemporain. Il n’est donc pas inutile de revenir sur sa contribution au mouvement féministe en France.

• Confronting the Myth of Objectivity
  31 May, by siawi3

  “Healing history” requires scholars to amplify suppressed voices and create the conditions for new narratives to propagate in the communities that long to hear them.

• Orientalism and Its Afterlives
  31 May, by siawi3

  Edward Said’s ’Orientalism’ is one of the most influential books of the past fifty years. In a very brief span, it put a reckoning with colonialism’s legacy at the very heart of historical scholarship. In doing so, it instilled an anti-imperial sensibility into an entire generation of Western scholars. But even while it castigated the imperial project, the book gravely weakened the intellectual resources for analyzing it and, even more, for overturning it. This essay examines the antinomies of Orientalism, and the context that allowed for its infirmities to be overlooked and even welcomed.

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