Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

“ [A] capitalist social system is not only property relations ; it is also a set of unspoken values common to the society. These values are stronger than any army and they are the main force maintaining capitalism today.”

“If you’re a Zionist, you do not get to claim solidarity with Gaza. If you oppose abortion, you have not sided with feminism. If you’re a far-right Christian who loves gay people but 'hates the sin', you’re lying to yourself and everyone around you. If you write a muddled piece about the conceptual importance of 'biological women' days after a ruling that erases trans people from public life, you don’t support trans liberation—hell, you don’t even support trans survival. Claiming support while advocating destruction is not solidarity ; it is self-serving manipulation. It is covert bullying. It is demanding, in dulcet tones, that oppressed people pat you on the back while you slit their throats.”

Repression and arbitrary dismissal of professor and author Joseph Daher Related Ali Abuminah arrested in Switzerland

‘The first genocide in history to be televised and openly supported by the West’

We implement extremist policies at home and abroad. We support extremist regimes. We support an extremist super-power. We engage in extremist wars. We sell extremist weapons. We support an extremist genocidal regime. We normalise extremist salaries, extremist wealth, extremist financial sector …  As you know, it's all right to treat ’extremists’ extremely. It's the desire to normalise one’s extremism that makes regimes like the UK’s call their enemies ’extremists’ . When the next violent attack takes place in a Western city they will as usual tell us about ‘terrorism’ re-mobilising their massive media – public and private – to hide their massive state violence in its different forms and shapes – mainly their economic and military violence.

Essays for a Free Palestine   (a free e-book) Related Free resources

‘Neoliberal’ orthodoxy and authoritarian degradation of public institutions

The best article I have read so far  about the current situation in Cuba. “When the Cuban government responded with violence to the claims of the people whose interests they are supposed to defend, it acted like any other government anywhere in the world, rather than following the socialist character that once defined the revolution. For some, this is a difficult truth to accept.” “I year for more solidarity from the global left” Related My diary of a visit to Cuba

  A solidarity campaign

 Jihad, Empire and the Challenge of Solidarity

“The first thing one must know is that it has nothing to do with Corona and everything to do with saving the Italian government from Signor Salvini.   The second thing is that it has nothing to do with European solidarity either.” Winners All

The future of the Hirak movement

The new socialism of fools

Against oppression French men too should wear "hijāb" in solidarity with their Muslim wives. Iranian men in solidarity with their women

I am free—but Turkey is not

Poland He fought within Solidarność for a peaceful transformation of the system, where strong workers’ organizations and widespread civic participation would lead to a democratic socialism, based either on continued state ownership or extensive social democratic-type economic intervention. (There were plenty of hothead activists in the movement, Modzelewski later recalled, “but nobody called for the privatization of the economy, or reprivatization of property confiscated by the state in 1945. Nobody.”) "I Didn't Sit Eight and a Half Years in Jail to Build Capitalism"

Absurdity The Stansted 15

Indeed. She is blond and doesn't wear a headscarf . 

A critique of solidarity

Al-Gami'ya Interview with director Reem Saleh