Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

تونس 14 مارس 2020

It makes sense for a capitalist system that is stagnating/with very low growth or heading towards a slump and no sight of "a new economy" to resume growth. It would be relieved from "unproductive" people, the "strains" on pensions and elderly care, etc. Consider it part of restructuring! Like with austerity, in "normal" times some/many people have to pay for the economic crisis, shiphoning more wealth to the top 1%, saving the banks, corruption, etc. That was part of the priorities. Now some people have to be "sacrificed" during an exceptional situation. "UK doctors may be forced to decide who to save"

China Bought the West Time with the Coronavirus. The West Squandered it.

"Agribusiness would risk millions of deaths"

Women and "the Iraqi Revolution"

Prisons in the Aegean

Big Pharma can't be trusted to solve Coronavirus

"The dominant feminist project of the past few decades has encouraged us to forget this fact. Proponents of mainstream feminism have worked hard to collapse the myriad feminisms of the world, each rooted in a different political worldview and a different vision of women’s liberation, into one version of feminism that aligns neatly with the preoccupations and proclivities of our for-profit system." Why I'm a feminist

Covid-19 in Britain

“International credit...represents the surest means by which the older capitalist states can keep the emerging ones under their tutelage....” Some of Rosa Luxemburg's insights

The Making of a "Resistance Parliament" and the Challenges Ahead

The Black Pimpernel

Disease, debt and depression

Like other celebrations emptied from their radical content  and has been a "free market" capitalist celebration. "Liberated" women buy flowers harvested by exploited women in Colombia. They feel good and I am sure —even if they think they are not exploited and commodified in the West—they are thinking (I'm being sarcastic) of the conditions of the Indian, Syrian and African women... of those refugees Syrian women, some of them are currently refused entry by Fortress Europe, or of those women harvesting coffee beans or making knickers and outfits suitable for celebrations. According to Oxfam , "The 22 richest men in the world now have more wealth than all the women in Africa. Women and girls put in 12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work each and every day —a contribution to the global economy of at least $10.8 trillion a year, more than three times the size of the global tech industry." Related Gender pay gap in the UK