Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

The healthy French society Have we seen titles like " The Harvey Weinteins of France "?

Iran 1980 The Women's Liberation Movement aimed at opening up a new chapter for the revolution. They were involved for five days, beginning on International Women's Day, March 8, 1979, in continuous marches under the slogan, "We made the revolution for freedom and got unfreedom."  Women and Revolution in Iran

Italy's Ides of March

Any discussion of #MeToo must first acknowledge the fact that the deeply autobiographical testimonies of sexual violence by women actually trace the biography of something else: the workplace. Nested within the accounts of personal violations lies yet another secret, the stunningly dictatorial nature of the workplace, that is, perhaps for the first time, being discussed openly. #MeToo shows the normative nature of the boss’s control over worker’s lives, reproduced each day through the power he holds over employment and enforced each day through intimidation, bullying, and outright violence. #MeToo as our moment to explore possibilities

A Crown Prince in the UK Saudi Crown Prince visit to the UK is hailed as a partnership between the two countries in "fighting terrorism". The state terrorism of the Saudi, the US, the UK, and other states over the last 50 years?  Hang on. There is $100 billion of deals on the table during this visit.  "Human rights"? Bin Slaman is making "a progress in granting Saudi women some rights". In the meantime,  UK should sell more weapons to the Saudis to kill more Yemeni women and children, with a sanction by the High Court. We are "civilised" and "democratic", the British consumers and subjects say. For that reason we exercise pur democratic rights and feeedoms in not questioning a visit of an autocratic (or an Egyptian dictator). Business as usual.

From the archive You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there’s no occasion to. — Humbert Wolfe Robert Fisk's crimes against journalism

This is good. What it is about capitalism that makes Keynesianism a horizon even would-be revolutionaries — including Mann himself, he admits — have trouble seeing past. It is not so much an ideological block as a strategic one. ... to the extent that Keynesianism saved capitalism, it was from barbarism rather than socialism. And leftists are pulled to Keynesianism because, deep down, they believe that too. Most have lost confidence that there is a viable political path to socialism, while threats from various shades of the Right have followed one after another. For all the antidemocratic tendencies of Keynesianism, socialists today can hardly see themselves articulating the views of the masses either. The Keynesian counter-revolution