Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

The Night الليل by Mohammad Malas A Syrian drama with French and German subtitles The film events take place between 1936 and 1948

England: UCU strike " It is so stupid , but it happens so often that we know it be a type of structural stupidity." No capitulation

"Since 1988 each debt relief scheme for the poorest countries results in another, always too late and always ill-adapted. It must not be forgotten that debt is much mroe than finnancial mechanism: it is a powerful instrument of dimination that for decades has allowed the leaders and big business of rich countries, with the complicity of the South's ruling class, to impose an economic model that serves their interests." Toussaint and Millet, Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank , 2010

"Marx's Refusal of the Labour Theory of Value"

Micro-credit "In a context of a system as violent and iniquitous as neoliberal globalization, micro-credit certainly play an attenuating role, but it is not an alternative. It applies bandages haphazardly on some cuts while an actual economic war rages one. Though its real impact is difficult to evaluate, the notion of micro-credit is recuperated by the finance establishment. By definition, micro-credit uses the same mechanisms as the logic of indebtedness and organizes and transfers wealth from the populations of the South to the creditors. Far from modifying social relations, it articulates with the capitalist system, in which it integrates perfectly." — Toussaint and Millet, Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank , 2010, p. 206

From a community of scholars to a purveyor of degrees

Symbolic Violence and the Naturalisation of Power Relations   A student's take of Bourdieu's ideas on the subject.