Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Key points Hemedti’s war machine is predicated on continual expansion. Since the RSF offers its recruits licence to loot and raid in lieu of wages, absent fresh targets, its forces have a tendency to disperse. In every city it captures, the RSF has employed the same playbook: destroy state institutions, plunder humanitarian resources, raze civilian property. Its assaults have functioned as an enormous engine of primitive accumulation that has destroyed agricultural land, displaced millions of people, and effected a wealth transfer from Sudan’s poorest to a class of militia leaders backed by Emirati capital… The paramilitaries have generalized the predatory political economy of Bashir’s regime. While Bashir exploited the peripheries to enrich the centre, the RSF has turned the entire country into a periphery to be plundered. The RSF’s mode of warfare has ultimately proved its undoing. The Sudanese army’s resurgence is partly due to its successful solicitation of foreign support. Qatar –...

Capitalist Colonial  departs from Kaminer's previous work by “ centering questions of coloniality and race , but the departure is not a total about-face, because the last thing I want to do is abandon the labor process or class analysis. At a fundamental level, the book is proof of Stuart Hall’s well-known theorem that “race is the modality through which class is lived.”

Solidarity with François Burgat , a prominent academic who stands trial for apology for terrorism in France. Also in French

Before he became part of the genocide supporters “Starmer wants to be thought a 'safe pair of hands', communicated above all in his commitment to the country's most conservative institutions and ideas, from NATO to sound money to royalism. He clings insecurely to the symbolic security of the flag and its metonyms, sends himself up with tryhard images of himself enjoying football with the lads and a pint, because he is terrified of being seen as anything but utterly mediocre. It's shameful to have a political enemy like Starmer , who progresses almost by default, simply because of the way the historical deck is stacked, and because of his willingness to exploit whatever evanescent advantages come his way, rather than because of any particular skill, charisma, or historical necessity of his appearance.” Good, but What is the point of using wrods that do not exist in a dictionary or online?

“It's the end of the world. Again. Liberal-democratic Europe, having been abandoned by its American overlord, must now (so say its leaders) fulfil its destiny by vanquishing a twin-headed monster. The first head is the Trump-Putin dyad, united in their loathing of Ukraine and the European Union; and the second, the cabal of Silicon Valley predators threatening humanity. ‘The new axis of the world is Trump-Putin,’ declared Jean-Yves Le Drian. “The  essayist Giuliano da Empoli's  argument in brief is that authoritarian leaders are conspiring with the all-conquering tech oligarchs to introduce ‘an era of limitless violence’. Against such opponents, ‘defenders of liberty appear singularly ill-prepared.’ His regret over this perhaps draws on personal experience; before the ‘age of predators’, there was an Edenic era of social-liberalism and the ‘third way’, whose leading lights included Matteo Renzi and Romano Prodi, both advised by da Empoli. Their brilliance so delighted Italian ...

 عن علي خنيس، فيسبوك هذه الصورة منذ سنوات لمهاجر من أفريقيا جنوب الصحراء. قالها منذ سنوات انه لا يريد الموت في تونس، ولانه لم يدخلها الا مكرها بقوة حراس حدود أوروبا بالوكالة وتجار البشر الذين تتقاطع مصالحهم. كما أنه لم يتخيّل حينها أنه سيتعرّض هو أو غيره من المهاجرين والمهاجرات سود البشرة جنوب الصحراء لعمليّات سحل على الهواء مباشرة من قبل تونسيين هم نفسهم ضحايا لنفس السياسات العنصرية الأوروبية التي تعيد الدولة إنتاجها على شعبها ويعيد شرائح من شعبها إنتاجها على المهاجرين والمهاجرات جنوب الصحراء. وهؤلاء نفسهم يمارسون العنصرية ضد أبناء شعبهم من التونسيين والتونسيات سود البشرة ولا يرونهم ويرونهنّ إلاّ "وصفان، عبيد وغيرها من التسميات التي يستعملونها في الإشارة لهم وبلا خجل. دولة عنصرية اسمها تونس تقع في شمال أفريقيا أيقظت كل نزعات العنصرية والكراهية الكامنة في المجتمع تحت إشراف خطاب رئاسي يتبنّى كل مقولات أقصى اليمين الفاشي الأوروبي من نظرية الاستبدال و"تغيير التركيبة الديمغرافية" إلى "المؤمرات والمخططات التي يحضر لها منذ عقود" وتستمعلها للتغطية على الفشل السياسي...

80 years since liberation from Nazi-fascism

 

[Maxime] Rodinson mobilised Ouzegane’s [*] point of being less concerned about whether Muslim dogmas were true or false, than with seeing Islam principally as a social and political instrument... Rodinson considered Islam as neither a good nor a bad ideology a priori, but rather insisted on the need to produce analyses of the religion that account for its social conditions in which it developed. As he wrote at the beginning of the his book  De Pythagore à Lénine , ‘the best way to comprehend nothing of a phenomenon is to isolate it, and to consider it, from either the interior or the exterior, as if it is the only one of its type. — Selim Nadi * Ouzegane, an Algerian militant, was counted amongst the founders in 1936 of the Parti Communiste Algérien (PCA), before being excluded for ‘nationalist deviances’ in 1947