Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

A homage to the inspirational women of Raqqa

 تخبط الإصلاحي الذي يحكي انتفاخا صولة الثوري

Two strands of anti-authoritarianism and the legacy of the Gezi uprising

Stigmatised but not silenced

A reading of Vasily Grossman’s two novels

 This is a great article. And it happens that I am in the middle of Charles Tilly’s book  Coercion, Capital and European States - 990-1992. Has China rescued the West?

R.I.P. America, America

Is this shift sufficient to tackle the century’s social and ecological crises? Not nearly. Does it alter essential class relations? On the contrary: it strives to re-legitimize the social order. Is it unambiguous? No: while private finance has been kept out of new domestic infrastructure projects, the US is still driving privatization and deregulation in the global south and intensifying its new Cold War on China. Will it propel a new phase of economic expansion? I doubt it, due to the sheer scale of global overaccumulation and the fade-out of the industrialization bonanza. 1979 in Reverse

Riz Ahmed on ‘toxic portrayal’ of Muslims on screen