Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

The Tightly Packed Contradictions of Global Capitalism

In English and en français The Gaza tragedy calls to mind the history of anti-Arab racism in Marseille

It is simple and clear: It is not the Israeli state to blame; it is the Palestinians who do not follow warnings and instructions.

Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation  is a riveting account of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. But it ignores class and capitalism and fails to explain the reasons behind Egypt’s mass mobilization and why it was defeated . Related Class in the 21st Century

Strikes, civil disobedience and blockades

 Workers and Change

A revolt must be against class and race oppression, not just race. A Call to Revolt

US:  The coronavirus class war has already started Italy: The corona crisis and the battle with the bosses

France The BBC has 'analysed' the ongoing events in a neoliberal triumphant tone . French students are right to revolt An open letter

In those early years, Dewey formulated three ideas that would come to define his mature vision of democracy: individualism offers a distorted vision of human freedom, genuine freedom is found in social cooperation, and true social freedom is impossible in a class society. John Dewey

Class struggle in Algeria Cranking up the pressure

The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution

"[T]he  aspiration of fractions of the Islamic bourgeoisie to strengthen their positions in the power structure, or rather to modify the place they occupy within the confessional political system, in order to better share the hegemony and not to change the system . . . This solution is not actually a solution; it will lead only to a worsening of the crisis of the system." — Mehdi Amel Hezbollah and the Workers