Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Did the UN fail the Rohingya in Myanmar?

"Spain is flirting with another civil war"

Egypt: Free jailed unionists

How the British convinced Hidus that Muslims were despots and religious invaders

Capital.150: part 3 – struggle!

Remembering the unfinished work of Papiya Ghosh

"The app-based platforms are convenient, and customers benefit from cheap rides. But why should venture-capitalists monopolise the platforms? The New Economics Foundation has called for the Mayor of London to  pioneer a mutually owned, public alternative to Uber . This would be an excellent start, and introducing a taxi platform to London’s labyrinthine, expensive public transport system would hardly be a huge addition." Uber Red

Capital.150 part two: the economic reason for madness

Property is the mother of famine: On dispossession, wages and the threat of hunger

Nationalism Painted Red

Capital.150 part one: measuring the past to gauge the future

The Palestinians who didn't leave during the Nakba

The American origin of the United Nations

The Museum of Colonialism

There is an irony in this, as Farris observes. The European feminists’ insistence that migrant women’s autonomy would be furthered by the work of domestic service defined as liberating the very household drudgery that these feminists had long sought to escape. There is both a racist and a sexist element to this, Farris says, because “they reinforce the conditions for the reproduction at the societal level of Muslim and non-Western migrant women’s segregation, traditional gender roles, and the gender injustice they claim to be combating.” The Culture Veil

Couscous, capitalism and neoliberalism in Tunisia

The Case Against Civilization

لماذا لا تستطيع الفلوجة أن تنسى ما جرى؟

UK "Full" employment, but falling incomes

British imperialism, the City of London and brexit