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lundi 18 mars 2024
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A ‘no-go zone' for Jews? The making of a moral panic in London
While antisemitism in the U.K. has certainly risen, politicians and the media are deliberately inflaming sensationalist narratives for a repressive agenda. If you were a non-Jewish person living in the United Kingdom and didn't know any better, you might think Jews are currently deserting (...)
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‘Armchair humanitarianism': The problem with Gaza's maritime aid corridor
While aid is desperately needed, critics warn the U.S.-led plan evades the fundamental cause of Gaza's starvation: Israel's total control of the Strip. Palestinians seen at the port of Gaza City, June 13, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90) When Huwaida Arraf helped organize the first “Free Gaza” sea (...)
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Ukraine: Vpered, a publishing house radically to the left
Vpered [Forward] is a Ukrainian publishing house which is dedicated "to the study of the history and current state of the theory and practice of social transformations, to the analysis of Ukrainian and world reality from the positions class, to the development of Marxist theory as a particular (...)
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Ukraine : Vpered une maison d'édition radicalement à gauche
Vpered [En avant] est une maison d'édition ukrainienne qui se consacre « à l'étude de l'histoire et de l'état actuel de la théorie et de la pratique des transformations sociales, à l'analyse de la réalité ukrainienne et mondiale à partir d'une position de classe, au développement de la théorie marxiste, (...)
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Gaza - ‘We scream, starve, and die alone': Life in the ruins of Shuja'iya
Israel's month-long invasion of the Gaza City neighborhood left behind a trail of devastation. Still under siege, its Palestinian residents are risking death to get their hands on a bag of flour. Palestinians walk amid the rubble of Shuja'iya, northern Gaza, February, 2024. (Mohammed Hajjar) (...)
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View from India: a retrospective of Emmanuel Macron's visit to Narenda Modi in late January 2024
Emmanuel Macron visited India on 25 and 26 January. The interview below was prepared for this occasion. However, for reasons largely beyond our control, its finalisation was postponed until now. Better late than never?
Pierre Rousset - Can we look back at the visit of French President (...)
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Russia: For a Just World/Just Peace Manifesto
The following manifesto has been drafted by the Справедливый мир campaign, which can be translated as both Just World or Just Peace given the double meaning of мир. The campaign is a new left-wing initiative seeking to disrupt the staged presidential elections that will take place between March 15-17. For more (...)
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Sanba: Chinese Feminists in Struggle: Maoist Past, Coercive Present
SANBA (三八), literally translating to “Three Eight” or March 8th, has long been a discriminatory term for women (funü, 妇女) in Chinese, as this date marks International Women's Day and thus has become associated with women, and particularly, working class married women. “Sanba” is part of a lexicon, (...)
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Vers une normalisation des violations des droits humains des personnes migrantes en Tunisie ?
En Tunisie, l'année 2023 a été marquée par une approche étatique raciste et xénophobe, initiée par la déclaration de la présidence tunisienne le 21 février 2023, où il évoquait les « hordes de migrants subsahariens » comme une menace pour la « composition démographique » nationale. Les répercussions de cette (...)
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Georgia's minimum wage is stuck in the 90s
Georgia has come a long way since the 1990s, a decade marred by civil war, political instability, and a faltering economy. But there's one area where the country has, quite literally, remained stuck in that distant past: its minimum wage. Georgia's private sector minimum wage was last updated (...)
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Leila Khaled: The Poster Girl of Palestinian Militancy
From hijacking planes, to her involvement in radical sects, Leila Khaled's activism for the Palestinian cause made her as era-defining as Che Guevara. Sarah Irving, author of Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation, sketches a biography of Khaled's remarkable life as a female activist in a (...)
dimanche 17 mars 2024
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The Zone of Interest is about the danger of ignoring atrocities – including in Gaza
If Jonathan Glazer's brave Oscar acceptance speech made you uncomfortable, that was the point ‘Glazer wanted his film to provoke these kinds of uneasy thoughts.' Photograph: Caroline Brehman/EPA It's an Oscar tradition: a serious political speech pierces the bubble of glamour and (...)
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Allemagne : augmenter les salaires !
Les conventions collectives sur les salaires dans l'industrie chimique expirent le 30 juin. Cela concerne 585.000 salarié.e.s dans près de 1700 entreprises. Il est de tradition que le Comité éxécutif du Syndicat de l'industrie des mines, de la chimie et de l'énergie (IGBCE) soumette à la discussion (...)
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Sergueï Lavrov et l'anti-impérialisme vulgaire
« Le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahou a annoncé que le Hamas devait être détruit comme entité et comme force militaire. Cela évoque la démilitarisation [de l'Ukraine]. Il a également déclaré que l'extrémisme devait être éliminé à Gaza. Cela évoque la dénazification [de l'Ukraine] ». - Servey Lavrov, (...)
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Etats-Unis-Israël. La principale politique concrète des Etats-Unis en direction d'Israël : assurer l'approvisionnement continu en armes
Les Etats-Unis ont discrètement approuvé et livré plus de 100 commandes militaires séparées à l'étranger [Foreign Military Sales-FMS – mais chaque fois avec un contrat spécifique qui les « isole » du point de vue du montant financier sous contrôle, donc « separate »] à Israël depuis le début de la guerre (...)
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Sergey Lavrov and Vulgar Anti-Imperialism
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Hamas must be destroyed as a whole and as a military force. It sounds like demilitarization [of Ukraine]. He also said that extremism must be eliminated in Gaza. It sounds like denazification [of Ukraine].” — Russian Foreign Minister Servey Lavrov, (...)
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Puerto Rican Solidarities with Palestine
Since October 7, an unprecedented number of Puerto Ricans across the archipelago and the diaspora have taken to the streets to organize and march in solidarity with Palestinians. Whether calling for a ceasefire to halt Israel's siege on Gaza or demanding the liberation of Palestine, many (...)
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War on Gaza: How Israel's leftists quickly lost their compassion for Palestinians
Liberal Israeli sympathy for Palestinians was based on the colonial mindset that the subjugated are inferior and should be grateful for their support Israeli protesters demonstrate near the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on 16 December 2023 (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP) The Hamas attack of 7 October (...)
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« Le FSM reste le seul espace de rencontre au niveau mondial »
Au terme d'une nouvelle édition du Forum social mondial (FSM) qui s'est déroulée à Katmandou, au Népal, du 15 au 19 février, l'heure est au bilan. Entretien avec Eric Toussaint, historien et économiste belge qui a participé au forum. Marche d'ouverture du FSM, Katmandou, 15 février 2024 Ofxam Asia (...)
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Palestine: 'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'
When Palestinian liberation fighter Leila Khaled hijacked her first plane in 1969, she became the international pin-up of armed struggle. Then she underwent cosmetic surgery so she could do it again. Thirty years on, she talks to Katharine Viner about being a woman at war In a way, the whole (...)
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The Israeli Left's Support for the Gaza War Serves the Interests of Netanyahu, Far-right
An Israeli soldier stands near a building being bulldozered by Israeli troops, in Gaza Strip's Khan Yunes, last week.Credit: Tomer Appelbaum The fighting in the Gaza Strip is working against goals that are important to the public, and crucial to the maintenance of the social contract in (...)
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Israeli Leftists: Shake Off the Shock of October 7 and Open Your Eyes to Gaza
Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza.Credit: Mahmoud Essa / AP Dear friends and former friends: It's time to sober up from the sobering up. It was baseless to begin with, but now, nearly half a year after your “eyes were opened,” it's time to return to reality. It's time to go back to seeing the whole (...)
samedi 16 mars 2024
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Le marxisme : un outillage conceptuel toujours fécond pour l'étude des sociétés précapitalistes
« Maurice Godelier a été le premier à dénoncer à une large échelle « la contrefaçon dogmatique qui passa, pendant toute une époque, pour le marxisme », en affirmant que l'idée que toutes les civilisations humaines aient été amenées à passer par les « cinq types fondamentaux de rapports sociaux » était (...)
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The UK economy is in recession: quelle surprise!
The UK Economy is now in recession; Susan Pashkoff examines the economics, meaning, causes and politics. One of the biggest non-surprises is that the British economy fell into recession. It is unsurprising because all government and Bank of England policies worked to get us here. In fact, it (...)
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Ecologie et biodiversité : Planter une nouvelle haie ne compense pas la destruction d'une haie ancienne
La haie est revenue sur le devant de la scène médiatique : tandis que les victimes des inondations dans le Pas-de-Calais déplorent leur arrachage intempestif, les agriculteurs en colère dénoncent les mesures réglementaires entravant leur destruction. Au-delà de ces positions médiatiques, les haies (...)
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Vu d'Inde : retour sur la visite d'Emmanuel Macron à Narenda Modi, fin janvier 2024
Emmanuel Macron s'est rendu en Inde les 25 et 26 janvier. L'interview ci-dessous a été préparé à cette occasion. De fil en aiguille, pour des raisons largement indépendant de nos volontés, sa finition a été reportée jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Mieux vaut tard que jamais ? Sushovan Darh est un activiste (...)
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UK: One simple change could restore faith in local democracy. But nobody is talking about it
If council tax was charged at 3% of disposable income, only the richest would pay more. Funny that it hasn't been implemented This year is only eight weeks old, yet we can already write a brief history of the near future. In Coventry, victims of sexual violence will no longer get counselling (...)
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Yemen: Houthis and STC accused of forcing Ethiopian women into 'sexual slavery'
Women trying to reach Saudi Arabia have been raped, trafficked and sexually assaulted while living in unorganised camps, Yemeni rights group alleges Ethiopian women who try to cross into Saudi Arabia from Yemen are subject to “sexual slavery” and abuses by Houthi forces and fighters from the (...)
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Human chain and rally in Dhaka to protest the price increase of daily commodities
Today, March 11, 2024, a human chain and rally was held in front of the National Press Club at 11 am on the initiative of Progressive Farmers' Action Council to protest against the increase in the prices of daily commodities. Presided over by Comrade Sultan Ahmed Biswas, Convener of (...)
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Ghana intensifies crackdown on rights of LGBTQ people and activists
New legislation threatens prison sentences of up to five years for ‘wilful promotion, sponsorship or support of LGBTQ+ activities' Ghana's parliament has passed legislation that intensifies a crackdown on the rights of LGBTQ people and those promoting lesbian, gay or other non-conventional (...)
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