Resources

• Baya (1931-1998), une peintre algérienne derrière le miroir du post-colonialisme
  1er juin, par siawi3

  Femmes d’Algérie rayonnantes de bonheur dans leurs jardins luxuriants. Seules ou entre elles, parfois en compagnie d’oiseaux majestueux ou d’instruments de musique flottants. Dans les oeuvres joyeuses de Baya il n’y a pas de place pour les hommes. Ses peintures et ses sculptures ne disent rien non plus du contexte colonial qui l’a vu naître. Dès son plus jeune âge, l’orpheline devenue servante chez les colons peint un monde onirique comme on conçoit un refuge pour échapper à sa condition sociale et aux vicissitudes de la vie.

• Marxism vs. Critical Race Theory
  1 June, by siawi3

  The pamphlets continue the initiative of the WSWS in combating the pernicious anti-working class position of the New York Times’ 1619 Project and the contemporary purveyors of divisive racialist politics.

• Comprendre le wokisme et y répondre
  30 mai, par siawi3

  Xavier-Laurent Salvador démonte les concepts de base du wokisme.

• USA: Free speech doesn’t require platforming fascism
  30 May, by siawi3

  We would do well to acknowledge the lure of profit that comes from platforming fascists and right-wing extremists. Mainstream media is not committed to critical thinking as an ethos because it doesn’t bring in views, clicks, and profit. That’s exactly why the rest of us must be more committed to engaged political thought which pays attention to who is platformed and whose experiences and voices are restricted.

• The Menace of “National Socialism”
  30 May, by siawi3

  Nationalists and patriots will not all wish to sink down to the low level of the Hitler type and some may discover the brotherhood of man. It is high time to make an end to this spell of madness which has now run for over eighteen years, since 1914, and had been in preparation a good many years before that fateful year. Only a new education to freedom and solidarity can shatter such nightmares as the impudent menace of “national socialism.”

• The Sorry Legacy of Arab Communism
  30 May, by siawi3

  There are still active communist parties today in Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Morocco, as well as Marxist or progressive leftist parties in many Arab countries. But Arab communists also betrayed their own cause: they never strove to develop their own version of local communism and did not, in their indoctrination campaigns, attempt to marry communist ideology with Arab culture and heritage. 

• Sudan: Spirit of a nation
  30 May, by siawi3

  Leila Aboulela’s historical novel of nineteenth century Sudan tells the story of one of Africa’s first successful, anticolonial uprisings.

• South Africa: Chris Hani’s black Marxism
  30 May, by siawi3

  Hani repeatedly warned against the ANC-led alliance government becoming a governing party that repeats the mistakes of other liberation movements. In addition, Hani was not afraid to rethink or reconceptualize left ideology or political praxis so it does not become socially and politically obsolete.

• Le témoignage de Sylvain Vergara, rescapé de Buchenwald, publié 30 ans après sa mort
  29 mai, par siawi3

  Sylvain Vergara a été l’un des plus jeunes internés non-juifs de Buchenwald, dont il a été libéré le 11 avril 1945, alors qu’il ne pesait plus que 40 kilos.

• The head scarf, modern Turkey, and me.
  29 May, by siawi3

  Both my parents always told me that, in order to be a good person, it was neither necessary nor desirable to believe in God; it was more noble and efficient to do good for disinterested reasons, without thoughts of Heaven.

0 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | ... | 2100