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November 14, 2016
A year after the deadly 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, and France is still grappling with its relationship with its minorities.
Fraternity is often forgotten. Didier Jansen/flickr, CC BY-NC
After it emerged that some of those who carried out the attacks were French nationals, many renewed longstanding criticisms that the outdated French “republican model” of...
November 12, 2016
The right has destroyed the left and stolen its language, using it as a decoy with which to push through policies that hurt the poorest. The left must reclaim its ideology, not allow it to be co-opted by the right
Donald Trump, by Gage Skidmore
Trump’s election was a tragedy. But the outrage is its reframing – by the mainstream media and even sections of the left – as a...
November 12, 2016
अगले वर्ष रूस में हुई क्रांति के 100 वर्ष पूरे हो जाएंगे। वह एक ऐसी क्रांति थी जिससे दुनिया की तस्वीर पूरी तरह से बदलने की संभावना उभरी थी। इसे सोवियत क्रांति के नाम से जाना जाता है। इस क्रांति की प्रेरणा में कार्ल मार्क्स की विचारधारा थी, जिसने एक ऐसी दुनिया की कल्पना की थी जिसमें व्यक्तिगत पूंजी पूरी तरह से समाप्त हो जाएगी और जिसमें इंसान द्वारा इंसान का शोषण सदा के लिए समाप्त हो जाएगा। इस...
November 12, 2016
Last week Iranian-born secularist and human rights activist, commentator, broadcaster and spokesperson for Iran Solidarity, One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, Maryam Namazie received the prestigious Prix International de la Laïcité 2016 award in Paris from French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. We reproduce below the transcript of her acceptance speech....
November 12, 2016
“We are the people who were beaten and whose houses were burnt to ashes after being looted to the last valuables. We were shot and wounded critically. And now they have handcuffed my ailing husband and tied a rope around his waist – what kind of justice is this?”
Charan Soren, one of the victims in November 6 attack on his village in Gaibandha, was spotted lying in a...
November 11, 2016
Congress has already granted wide power to the president to alter immigration rules, so he will not need congressional approval.
Photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Candidate Trump was never particularly specific on the policy details of how the Muslim ban would work. But with President-elect Trump set to take office in January, and his pledge to implement the ban on day one now...
November 10, 2016
For all you political junkies out there, you’re probably aware that there was a presidential election last night. The Republican candidate – Donald Trump – emerged the winner, but some people (like millions of them) are kind of terrified by this result.
Perhaps that explains why filmmaker Michael Moore’s Facebook post today is currently going crazy viral. His “...
November 10, 2016
For years now, before anyone thought a person like Donald Trump could possibly lead a presidential primary, a small but respected niche of academic research has been laboring over a question, part political science and part psychology, that had captivated political scientists since the rise of the Nazis.
Image: Vox.com
How do people come to adopt, in such large numbers and so rapidly,...
November 10, 2016
The right is on the move—in Britain, Hungary, Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, India and now, far more importantly than any of those, in the United States. If Marine Le Pen can win in France in 2017 then fascism will truly have arrived, just seventy years after we assumed it had been banished for good.
Press Association Images/Paco Anselmi: Donald Trump as he makes his...
November 10, 2016
The new nativism thrives off the failures of neoliberalism. We have entered a dangerous era of anti-liberalism.
Image credit: Business Insider
A few thoughts on the causes and consequences of Trump’s victory:
- Bill Clinton’s legacy may have cost Hillary the election. It’s now clear that NAFTA, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act to regulate banking, and the...