Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

1. A saying attributed to Saint-Juste:  “ Those who make revolutions by halves do nothing but dig their own tombs.“ What applies to Egypt and Syrian, applies to Sudan.  2. The call by two Sudanese trade unions for a general strike must be supported. 3. The general strike must go beyond stopping the economic machine and challenging the military; it must create organs of power. A crucial revolutionary action the revolting Sudanese did not create two years ago. 4. The compromise with the military was a plunder. 5. No trust in the foreign powers that call for the release of “the civilian leaders.” They are for a compromise and ‘peaceful’ arrangement. They are the same powers supporting the Egyptian dictatorship and supported the recent coup in Bolivia. The same powers that talk about ‘civilian rule”, send the IMF and the World Bank to prolong the life of the current regimes and perpetuate the conditions that breed social conflicts, uprisings, migration, etc. My comment from July 2...

Sudanese communists and aftermath of July 1971 in Kober

Tahrir revolutionaries famously chanted for “bread, freedom, and social justice.” Ten years on, hopes for freedom and social justice are quite far from most Egyptians’ minds. The vast majority are far too busy chasing after the daily bread that led off that short list of demands, struggling day in and day out to feed themselves and their families, and desperately trying to cling to what’s left of their basic human dignity, before even that is stripped from them. There is no denying that the situation is bleak. But at least for one night, Egyptians were able to celebrate and take pride in their cultural heritage, even as that too becomes little more than another weapon in the hands of the regime. The Military Mobilisation of History

Just to confirm: “We condemn a coup if we did not support it. It is not a coup if we did support/sponsor it.” —American imperialism and its allies

‘Due to travel restrictions the United States is forced to organise a coup at home this year.’ —Andrew Burgin In 2000 they were telling us how by 2020 globalisation would deliver new types of cars, planes, etc and prosperity for all. We ended up learning how to wash our hands. —N. M.

 Despite a US-backed coup Morales’ ally set for win They will try other methods in future, including sabotage, sanctions, etc. Related The US-backed coup in Bolivia was based on lies Bolivia’s coup

I am free—but Turkey is not

Venezuela Maduro is supported by authoritarian China and Russia. The opposition is supported by the "democratic" U.S., Canada, a "democratically-elected" neofascist in Brazil, and the like. A coup should be OK then. Then they could claim it was a "humanitarian intervention" by "the free world" in the interest of "the Venezuelan people", i.e. the oligarchs and the "middle class". I wonder though how the American imperialists support a coup without having the army on their side. The 2002-US-supported coup almost escalated to a civil war.

" Turkey has been under a state of emergency since a failed coup in July 2016, with 107,000 public servants and soldiers dismissed from their jobs. More than 50,000 people have been imprisoned pending trial since the uprising." The BBC is lost in translation. In the very same paragraph , "coup" and "uprising" were used to mean the same thing. We know that what happened in 2016 was a coup and the major Western powers were slow to condemn it. They played watch-and-see first. In these elections, the HDP has scored above the 10% threshold that will aloow it to enter parliament despite its leader being in prison. The 2016 coup: an analysis by Stratfor "Regardless of whether Erdogan is at its helm, Turkey will continue down its expansionist path, a path that was unlikely to be short-circuited by a haphazard coup led by a motley group of Islamists and nationalists. Turkey is on this course, at this stage in history, because geopolitics wills it. B...

Egypt removes 25 January 2011 and 30 June 2013 events from school curriculum

"Egypt is no longer the heart of the Arab world"

Turkey Torture in the wake of the failed coup 1. If the coup succeeded, I think, the military would have done as much or probably more. 2. Now even the progressive opposition in Turkey is being subjected to brutal repression. 3. The main Western powers were late in condemning the coup. Russia and Iran, for their own strategical interests, were among the first to come against the coup. That was one of the elements which drove Erdogan to heal Turkey's relations with Russia.

The Battle of Chile

A 9/11 Retrospective: Washington's 15-Year Air War The Coup in Chile: 11 September 1973

Fabricationg illusions of people power in post-coup Turkey

That media of "our liberal democratic society" Sounds of Blairite Silence

Between 'Sultanism' and Liberal Democracy: The Peculiarities of a Failed Coup in Turkey

Allende's Poet

Thousands of Turkey coup prisoners "raped, starved and hogtied"

Why Corbyn so terrifies the Guardian and A free ebook by Richard Seymour