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• Lutte contre l’antisémitisme et antiracisme dans la France contemporaine. Polarisations, impensés et nouvelles perspectives de lutte
  22 octobre, par siawi3

  Le renouveau antisémite dans la France de ce début de XXI^e siècle se caractérise d’abord par les assassinats de Juif-ves. Ce renouveau de la haine a marqué l’opinion parce que, dans les années post-Shoah, l’impression dominait que l’antisémitisme était un élément du passé. À des meurtres s’ajoutent des viols à caractère antisémite. Beaucoup trop de partisans de l’émancipation sociale et des combats quotidiens contre l’exploitation et les discriminations ont nié ou minimisé l’antisémitisme des deux dernières décennies.

• Pakistan: On dissent, building transversal solidarity and nurturing the will of the people: A conversation with Ammar Ali Jan
  22 October, by siawi3

  Those who subvert the Constitution, those who undermine its basic fabric, its values, its laws, are being seen as the protectors of national sovereignty. All the rights enshrined in the Constitution can be bracketed for this mythical concept of the nation. On the other hand, those who protect the constitutional architecture of freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of dissent — those who take that document that binds us all together seriously, they are seen as threats to the nation-state.

• Pakistan: The return of ideology
  22 October, by siawi3

  The past two weeks have witnessed the emergence of a debate in Pakistan long deemed dead by pundits across the political spectrum. The debate centres on the possibility (or impossibility) of an alternative to capitalism, a system whose logic has appeared ‘natural’ and beyond reproach for over three decades.

• Africans and the creation of the modern world
  22 October, by siawi3

  Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without Africa’s natural resources and centuries of cheap African labor.

• South Africa: “After The Night, The Day Will Surely Com”
  20 October, by siawi3

  Kyle Shepherd’s new music blooms brightly from out of the shadow of pandemic and considers what it means to be South African, African, and human.

• France : « Le Mirage #MeToo » de Sabine Prokhoris
  19 octobre, par siawi3

  Une réalité de substitution par constitution d’un continuum offensé : Au nom d’une cause juste, et par le moyen d’une surmédiatisation fulgurante, s’installe un espace justicier sacralisé. En faisant fi de la présomption d’innocence, en rendant valide toute dénonciation du fait de sa seule existence, en revendiquant une présomption de culpabilité en matière d’agression sexuelle, en constituant un rassemblement victimaire et vengeur où infractions, délits et crimes sont mutualisés sans que soit posée la question de leur vérité, en revendiquant même une « vérité alternative » s’autorisant de « nouveaux récits », le mouvement #MeToo ne se contente pas d’introduire un « malaise dans le féminisme ».

• Pakistan: Political life under Benazir Bhutto’s government
  19 October, by siawi3

  There have been only two books written in English by members of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s first cabinet, which was in place for a mere 20 months from December 1988 to August 1990. This was a time of transition, from Gen Zia’s 11-year brutal dictatorship to what would later come to be known as the decade of flawed democracy, and also a time of tumult, both globally as well as within the region.

• USA: The Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk
  19 October, by siawi3

  Resistance to the right-wing assault on freedom of thought should include a recognition that while ideological struggle is unavoidable, indeed often productive in a democracy, the means by which protagonists assert their values must be limited to protect against the incipient tyrannies so disturbingly present all around us.

• USA: Huey P. Newton and the Last Days of the Black Colony
  19 October, by siawi3

  “We are internationalists because our struggle must proceed on many fronts. While we feed and clothe the poor at home we must meet and attack the oppressor wherever he may be found.” Newton’s writings on intercommunalism and technology are provocative and constitute an important if incomplete contribution to radical left thinking in the late twentieth century.

• USA: On the Documentaruy film:“The Boys Who Said NO!: Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War”
  19 October, by siawi3

  Decades after the end of the Vietnam War, the impact on both Vietnam and the United States is still felt. Yet few Americans are aware that the conflict, which killed several million people, ended in large part thanks to the anti-war movement made up of, among others, 570,000 Americans that refused to be drafted to fight a war that many saw as immoral even then. Among those, 3,250 draft resisters–many of whom considered themselves conscientious objectors–were punished with up to five years in prison. These valiant young men from a wide range of social classes are the subject of the documentary.

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