Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Three mass shootings in the US in less than a week! Disappointment on the faces of those who expected "Allahu Akbar".

Passport by Mahmoud Darwish

Bringing Gender to the Forefront of the Trade Union Movement

India’s middle class had never before faced a revolt by domestic workers on such a scale. Sandhya Gupta, a resident, told the  New York Times : ‘They are like [a] bone that is stuck in our throats — we can neither swallow them, nor can we spit them out’ India's servants revolt

The official celebrations of the Warsaw Ghetto's uprising A letter from last year

مسكون Maskoon (Haunted) a film by Liwaa Yazji

Reclaiming the commons through state ownership? Maybe not (I posted a comment to the article)

The Right proves, in short, that the liberal faith in the impeccable consistency and logic of the status quo is unfounded. They're almost like hackers saying, if this system is as secure as you say, how come we can break into it ? Or, to put it another way, if your version of reality is the only version possible, how come it contains us ? Karl Rove used to be mocked by liberals for saying, "We're an Empire now and, when we act, we create our own reality." The chaos in Iraq seemed to horrifyingly rebut this unspeakable smugness, but did it? Did they not create their own reality? Wasn't the chaos, the civil war, the patrimonial corruption, the torture, the complete social breakdown, the million bodies, their own reality? — Richard Seymour But I think  this analysis  should be a complement to "the confidence men" article although Seymour's use of "democracy" is close to that of  the Financial Times' and the Guardian's, for instance

"These brave women fighting for freedom, equality and justice face increasing challenges, amidst a violent, Islamic fundamentalist backlash. After 30 years in power, Al-Bashir and his regime have powerful socio-economic, religious and militarised allies throughout the region – and now these forces are working together to fight back against change in Sudan." "Sudan's women face backlash from Islamic fundamentalists"

According to research by the London School of Economics, if you’re a working class graduate with a first class degree you’re less likely to land an elite job than a middle class graduate with a 2:2. And even if you do succeed in getting the position, you'll earn on average 16% less than your middle class counterparts. Why? In this "investigation " Amol Rajan, media editor at the BBC, either has failed to answer why or he was censored (an editor edited him!). The main reason according to Rajan is "class prejudice". Class, thus, is like racism "a prejudice". not a production of socio-economic structure of property and power: how production is organised, who gets the profit, who owns what, and what power relations govern the producers and the owners of capital.  Furthermore, class society has to reproduce itself in terms of power relations and ideas, (i.e. ideology). This main division in society has to be deflected towards "identity politic