Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Happy birthday, Karl Marx In Opinion section on the New York Times By a professor at a South Korean university

"But this week was also the week that Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of China’s Alibaba and a high-tech icon on par with Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, visited Israel. On Friday, the first leg of the Giro d’Italia bicycle race begins in Jerusalem (carefully skirting east Jerusalem). There were at least three major cross-border mergers and acquisition deals this week involving Israeli companies totaling a billion-plus dollars." On the recently-discovered Israel's "bad behaviour", "Western human rights", "Western democracies", business interests and other beautiful things

Ghani's statistics on armed groups show that most of them also involve cases of violence against women – and the Syrian government heads that list. Women are deliberately targeted, he says, because they always played an important role in the opposition against Assad. The regime sees torture and sexual abuse of women as a war strategy, Ghani argues. "Break the women and you break the family – and with it opposition in society. That's the goal." Syrian women in Assad's prisons

Against Charity

Liberal Totalitarianism

I listen and listen again. I hear this or that voice. I read sentences and behind the lines. I read arguments and counter-arguments. My impression is that Trump and his clique, and so far backed mostly by the Israeli regime, are building dossier and a creating a context for a war with Iran. It will be very interesting to watch, especially the position Putin's regime will take. Of course nothing is certain yet, but similar patterns lead to similar results. In the interim a few things could happen and  change the descent towards another madness: Trump might go before that, for example.

The Communist Manifesto as a graphic novel

This should be a novel in my reading list The Art of Critique in Victor Serge's Midnight in the Century

"If you don't attack the economic power of the elite, soon or later it will attack you." That's what the Arab uprisings, for instance, were unable/failed to do. K for Karl – Revolution (episode 3)

The Communist Manifesto at the British Library Note that the full price to attend the talk is £15. Obviously, and ironically, the event is not for the working class!

Very good! I recommend it to "Westerners" and non-Westerners.

The memory of the defeated

France The BBC has 'analysed' the ongoing events in a neoliberal triumphant tone . French students are right to revolt An open letter

The end of May?

Britain How austerity is hollowing out heart Tory Somerset

Mission accomplished

Britain The racists won. So are they happy now?

Capital seeks to destroy all barriers in order to expand Macron Wanted to Destroy a Utopia That Has Been Working for Ten Years I was in La Rolandière when it was announced that the airport construction project was being called off. Everyone jostled to see the footage of this historic decision on a tiny computer screen. We did a lap around the ZAD to thank the farmers who took part in the struggle, and then organised a big party. But after that, the state sought to divide the  zadistes . Of course, there were internal disagreements on the future course of action. Some favoured reaching a compromise with the state while others adopted a radical position, a pure anarchism, even at the risk of impotence. Rather than a firm majority decision or everyone just going off to do as they pleased, they sought a middle position. The discussions were sometimes difficult and they took time. Again, this was the idea of "composition." But the state did not want such an experience to de...

Managers rule, not capitalists?

What is the architecture of control and how does it work? Listen also to  Eyal Weizman, author of Hollow Land

"Having taught in business schools for 20 years, I have come to believe that the best solution to these problems is to shut down business schools altogether." Why we should bulldoze the business school

"We cannot ignore that war if we want to understand the end of this revolutionary democracy, and those who draw a straight line from October 1917 to Stalinism invariably ignore or downplay the impact of that bloody conflict." The Revolutionary Democracy of 1917