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lundi 18 mars 2024
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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 ? Pierre Rousset – Peut-on revenir sur la (...)
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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 (...)
vendredi 15 mars 2024
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Israël-Palestine : le plan d'assujettissement des Palestiniens se poursuit
Même ceux qui se sont moqués du ministre des finances, Bezalel Smotrich, participent, ou soutiennent à voix haute et par leur silence, l'usage écrasant de la force par le gouvernement contre les Palestiniens partout dans le monde. En dépit du faible nombre de sièges que Bezalel Smotrich (...)
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La tyrannie du productivisme d'État - À propos Congrès national du peuple de Chine de 2024
Le Congrès national du peuple est actuellement en session à Pékin, au beau milieu d'une forte récession économique qui affecte les conditions de vie de millions de personnes : resserrement du crédit sur le marché immobilier qui s'étend maintenant à d'autres secteurs financiers (voir mon article ici), (...)
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Adresse inaugur@le pour une revue
C'était il y a longtemps Les tambours de guerre du FNL vietnamien annonçaient une incroyable nouvelle : les envahisseurs n'étaient pas invincibles. Partout, ou presque, les campus s'enflammaient, l'insubordination ouvrière se répandait comme une traînée de poudre, le vieux monde était (...)
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Family-friendly France?
On 16 January Emmanuel Macron made an address to the nation in which he insisted on the need for rearmament: civic, academic, scientific, technological, industrial agricultural rearmament, and demographic rearmament! What brought on this warlike pronouncement on the question of population? In (...)
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Russian socialist Mikhail Lobanov: ‘We are sure that at this “election”, millions will cast a protest vote'
Mikhail Lobanov is no stranger to the rigged nature of Russian elections under President Vladimir Putin. In the 2021 parliamentary elections, the then-37-year old ran as an independent socialist on the ticket of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. After the votes cast on election day (...)
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Taiwan: When Will ARA Amendment Discussions Account For Transgender Reproductive Rights?
This past Wednesday, the Taiwan Women's Link (TWL) hosted a press conference calling for opening up access to assisted reproduction and decoupling the issue of surrogacy from amendments to the Assisted Reproduction Act (ARA). As part of the press conference, TWL released a petition calling for (...)
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Sri Lanka's Online Safety Act brings it a step closer to Buddhist theocracy
Political monks have been clamouring for a blasphemy law, and the sacral component of the oppressive Online Safety Act gives the Sinhala Buddhist clergy the weapon it wanted Names can be misleading. The Tree of Cracow never knew Poland. It was a hoary chestnut in the Palais-Royal Garden in (...)
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Indonesia: Nationalist group accuses ICW, Kontras and LBH of racism, demands apology
Jakarta — Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) knowledge management division coordinator Wana Alamsyah said that his agency had never committed acts of racism in any form. Alamsyah conveyed this to counter accusations made by dozens of people protesting in the name of the Student and Youth Social (...)
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