Resources

• The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left
  4 December 2020, by siawi3

  In 2019, the US government released tens of thousands more pages worth of previously secret files relating to Argentina’s dictatorship during the Condor years. Among the revelations: that in September 1977, “representatives of West German, French, and British intelligence services had visited the Condor organization secretariat in Buenos Aires . . . to discuss methods for establishment of an anti-subversive organization similar to Condor.” With veterans of France’s brutal counterinsurgent wars in Algeria and Vietnam having passed on their own training and experience to their Latin American counterparts, perhaps one day we will find out that the “global anti-Marxist agreement” Condor was a part of was even broader than once thought.

• Face à l’islamisme, l’antifascisme internationaliste
  3 décembre 2020, par siawi3

  « Erdo ?an n’incarne pas l’islam : le problème n’est en rien qu’il soit musulman, mais qu’il soit un fasciste, un islamiste et un criminel de guerre. »

• Une reine africaine contre les colons, le récit de Karine Silla
  2 décembre 2020, par siawi3

  Aline s’adressant aux femmes : « N’oublions pas que nous avons dirigé des empires et mené pendant des siècles des stratégies de guerre qui ont, à plusieurs reprises dans l’histoire, chassé les envahisseurs. »

• Africa: History class
  2 December 2020, by siawi3

  What might Black Lives Matter learn from Africanist scholars who have studied inequality outside the US, especially in Africa? “There is a real tension between the importance of addressing the pain that comes from the history people of African descent have faced of enslavement, colonization, and racism, and addressing issues of inequality across time and space. This tension can be a source of fruitful exploration. The histories of enslavement, colonization, and racism are not “out there” but right here; one cannot understand the United States or France any more than Nigeria or South Africa without a focus on these subjects.”

• Colonisation : « Combattre, punir, photographier »
  1er décembre 2020, par siawi3

  La société française au temps des colonies : Une subtile histoire de la violence et de ses représentations.

• The making of a modern martyr - From Patrick Pearse to George Floyd, they’re a sign the political conversation has broken down
  1 December 2020, by siawi3

  It is a grim irony that the West now appears so indifferent to the continuing reality of Christian martyrdom globally, while still drawing on so much of its historical signage and poetic resonance. But the fundamental alchemy of martyrdom, the transformation of individual death into communal cause, is as strong as ever. Martyrs arise at the smoking interfaces of social and political conflict. They are birthed in violence, and thereafter can be used either to inspire or further to inflame. Either way, we have not seen the last of them.

• UK: The dangerous logic of anti-racism
  1 December 2020, by siawi3

  If racism is about prejudice and power, where does that leave high-achieving minorities?

• Africa: From the Niger to the Nile
  1 December 2020, by siawi3

  These stories enrich our understanding of intracontinental migrations, and give us tools to connect the modern histories of countries rarely thought about in conjunction, such as Mali and Sudan. They also help us rethink the essentializing of African refugees: historically, seeking refuge on the continent has encompassed a variety of experiences, including West African Muslims who chose to emigrate rather than living under European rule.

• ‘From each according to ability; to each according to need’ – tracing the biblical roots of socialism’s enduring slogan
  29 November 2020, by siawi3

  The phrase was, in fact, popularized by Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program. But its origins are in France. It occurs in the 1848 speeches of the socialist politician Louis Blanc and can be traced further back to the cover of the 1845 edition of philosopher Étienne Cabet’s utopian novel “Voyage en Icarie”.

• USA: Births of a Nation, Redux: Surveying Trumpland with Cedric Robinson
  27 November 2020, by siawi3

  What Robinson identified as “the rewhitening of America” a century ago is what we’re seeing play out today. Robinson was making an argument about racial regimes as expressions of class power and how racism undergirds class oppression.

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