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Black Lives Matter

A liberal take. And when liberals mention class it is because they fear the radicalisation of the oppressed classes and class conflict. Black Lives Matter is about both race and class

Ukraine

In a European country where the average monthly salary is £300 Women who give birth for money

Iraq

There a sloppy about Obama in this article. Unsurprisingly, no mention of class at all as if race and class are not interrelated. The rights/plight of the African Iraqis

Black Politics in America

Here is a good analysis "[W]e can no longer assume that shared identity means a shared commitment to the strategies necessary to improve the lives of a vast majority of black people. Class tensions among African-Americans have produced new fault lines that the romance of racial solidarity simply cannot overcome." The End of Black Politics

American State Violence

Some "liberals" are really scared and don't want to see a radicalisation of a movement. After decades of silence and complicity, they are changing tack. Understandably, one is not expecting a Foreign Journal's article to include the capitalist and imperialist settings as a wider context of class and race oppression, the economic policies imposed, the international institution involved, debt enslaving, etc. That would question the "liberal democractic way of life,", the American concept of "freedom", the "cold war" and what it was about, "the definition of terrorism" and discovering American imperialist history. The defenders of the system will do whatever it takes, including concessions and what it sounds leftish discourse, to mollify anger, co-opt resistance, mobilise their troops of intellectuals and celebrities in order to establish a new status quo. If a stronger movement that goes beyond race and racism doesn't chall

Obituary

Albert Memmi I have noticed that there is no mention at all whether he took a position the Israeli state.