Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

100 years after the Russian Revolution History from Below

Contrary to "value-free" social science (promoted by Max Weber), "The serious and critical reader will not want a treacherous impartiality … but a scientific conscientiousness, which for its sympathies and antipathies — open and undisguised — seeks support in an honest study of the facts, a determination of their real connections, an exposure of the causal laws of their movement." — Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution

Mothering a Muslim

The Real Winston Churchill

One of the recent protests in the Middle East   (in Arabic)  Tunisians in the picture

Workers and Officers in Egypt: The Other Failed Revolution

Britain I've always heard "public is bad, private is good" as one of the tenets of the market fundamentalists. After the criminal activities of the banks, the taxpayers are at the end those who pay at the cost of other things (such as increasing the National Health Service budget). Here is another criminal activity