Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Anyone who has read Ellen Meiksins Wood’s The Origin of Capitalism (1999) should read this ‘discussion’ for update. Entering the neofeudal era

The ‘same’ headlines, attacks and vilifications uttered and published when I first arrived in England 20 years ago. The difference today is that white Ukrainians are welcome as it was with Polish labour. Johnson warns of the ‘healthy young men’ or ‘economic migrants’ who come here under false pretences, sometimes posing as minors, in place of the truly vulnerable.  Fables of migration

But most remain imprisoned or have disappeared

This book [ Genocide in Libya ] is not meant to be conclusive, but to bring out Libya and Libya’s brutal, genocidal colonial history. And to get rid of that common and really absurd way of thinking that goes “I don’t know anything about Libya, so I’m going to talk about tribalism, I’m going to talk about [Muammar] al-Qaddafi, about regionalism or religion.” Who doesn’t have regions? Who doesn’t have these social complexities? An interview with Ali Abdullatif Ahmida Related There was no a Nuremberg trials for Italian fascists

A review from 2020 by a Western-centric Marxist economist and blogger might help us understand the situation of today’s global economy. Review of Trade Wars Are Class Wars Part 1 Part 2

A book review There was no a Nuremberg trials for Italian fascists

“ All dissent has been criminalized in India. Until recently, dissenters were called anti-national. Now we are openly labelled intellectual terrorists. We are currently in that dangerous place where there is no set of facts or histories that we can agree upon, or even argue wi th.  The narratives do not overlap or even intersect with each other. It’s myth versus history. We’re on our own. No help will come. It didn’t come to Yemen, to Sri Lanka, to Rwanda. Why should we hope otherwise in India? In international politics, only profit, power, race, class, and geopolitics determine morality. Everything else is merely a posture, a shadow dance.” Arundhati Roy on religious nationalism and dissent 

By country, most Syrian refugees are in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.  Denmark is four times bigger than Lebanon. It has 40 times of Syrian refugees than Denmark . Denmark’s GDP is more than 10 times bigger than Lebanon’s.  Blatant racism. If you are white and Christian, we change the law and welcome you.

The Haymarket affair

 From citrus production to historical memory