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Attacks on and violations of workers’ rights by governments and employers Related ‘Made in Tunisia’

“America on the Brink” review

Not a single word about UK’s imperialism. Poverty, excessive inequality, productivity …

The floods devastating Pakistan

A very good review, I think.

 

تعليقي على المقال: هناك غياب عامل الملكية وعلاقات الملكية وشكل الرأسمالية في مصر التي تكرس شكل المجتمع الذكوري في البلد. إلى جانب دور النظام، القول بأن المجتمع الرأسمالي واضطهاده هو السبب لا يكفي. فكيف نفسر أن حدة العنف في بلدان مثل فنلندا والبرتغال أقل من مصر؟ كيف أن العنف ضد المرأة في الهند أكثر مما هو في تونس أو في المكسيك أكثر من إيطاليا مع أنها كلها مجتمعات تحكمها علاقات رأسمالية. من نيرة إلى سلمى Related The latest femicide in Egypt

"A water crisis like this doesn't become an issue until it affects people of a higher class. It has been ongoing and Jackson has been an example of that. People's health is secondary to the state." Racism and class in one of the richest countries

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“In the beginning, everyone we met was really helpful – and then the reality set in. I am grateful to them for saving our lives, but in this bargain, I’ve lost my dignity, my home and I’m very depressed,” says Rias. Reflecting on the racism they’ve faced in their first year in Europe

First full report on the regime’s massacre

In English En français بالعربية

ترجمة عربية لمقال  درشانا نارايانان

‘People are much angrier now’

The crisis of development: uneveness, polarization and contestation

“Approaching each other with a clear and direct agenda, mostly revolving around the mutual benefits of boosting trade, investment, and business in a win-win situation, was determinant. The power fatigue resulting from following highly contrasting geopolitical and ideological agendas and the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the post-2011 era encouraged the conflicting regional players to follow pragmatic behaviour and prioritise the economy, business, trade, and interest-based agendas rather than ideological ones. The regional and international dynamics that have led to this rare moment of de-escalation and reconciliation among the different regional players, in particular, are not constant and subject to sudden changes. Besides Egypt, several Arab countries are severely exposed. If the war is set to prolong, then one should not rule out that a looming food crisis coupled with skyrocketing food prices would trigger uprisings. Despite the very positive regional atmosphere resulting ...

“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”  Fatma Aliye

 

Palestine today is perhaps the single most important spot on earth where the fictional battle between “Islam” and “the West” is waged. Palestine has always been home to Jews, and should always remain home to Palestinian Jews, in the company of their Christian and Muslim neighbors, in the framework of a free, equal, and democratic state. What has that simple fact to do with a colonial project of European settlers that has called itself “Zionism” and catapulted its colonial conquest of Palestine into the false binary of “Islam and the West”? Palestine has always belonged to Palestinians: Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. Zionism was always a colonial sideshow distracting from this simple fact. In this context, singling out Hamas [or Palestinian Islamic Jihad] to define Palestinian resistance to occupation of their homelands is a deliberately false and falsifying synecdoche—making one militant group stand for the entirety of the Palestinian national liberation movement—a cause that has...

Since the 2000s, there has been a shift in France’s media and among its politicians. While the media landscape had evolved in the 1970s and ’80s, with many supporting the Palestinian right to self-determination and the need to negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (which Israel and the US denounced as a terrorist group), the consensus position has since shifted dramatically. Some now see Palestine through the lens of the “war on terror” and the “Islamist menace”. Any condemnation of Zionism is presented as a form of antisemitism. This reflects the position of European governments, especially France, which have aligned themselves with Israel and adopted - what many consider to be - Islamophobic positions in recent years. “How French media censored my views”