“Our continent cannot keep supplying the Global North. We can’t.” —INA-MARIA SHIKONGO, Fridays For Future Windhoek
Far from Spring
30 October 2021, by“We must oppose the authoritarian drift of President Saied, while supporting the progressive and democratic alternatives that confront Ennahda and the other parties in power, to prevent the return to a status quo which is unbearable for the Tunisian popular classes.”
A Lucky Break from Populism?
29 October 2021, by“As Czechia [Czech Republic] moves on towards a future that strangely resembles the past, with roughly the same political forces taking over after socio-economic turmoil, as they did in 2010 after the financial crisis, it remains to be seen whether the same mistakes will be repeated.”
Haitian migrants brutalised and deported at US-Mexico border
28 October 2021, by“What happened to Haitians at the Texas border is, unfortunately, not unusual.”
The past haunts the present in Haiti
27 October 2021, by“Why is Haiti the poorest country in the Americas?”
The Zemmour moment
26 October 2021, byÉric Zemmour’s rise on the French political scene may seem dazzling — but it certainly didn’t fall from the sky. The likely transfer of the main far-right media heavyweight into the party-political arena is a symptom that encapsulates the deeper trends of the current period.
Algeria as State and Nation
25 October 2021, by“It is the defence of this sovereignty and its development, under new conditions, that the hirak has now introduced into society, with terms and objectives less reductive than those of the government.”
Stora report: a historian at Macron’s service
24 October 2021, by“History is not neutral, and it can be used and diverted as a support by all governments for their own interests. It is up to all the oppressed and the victims of colonialism and imperialism on both sides of the Mediterranean to write their own history.”
The Great Resignation: A Workers’ Movement in America
23 October 2021, by“For now, workers are quitting because they want to be happier at work. Perhaps nothing is more radical, if that desire can be transformed into more conscious, more collective mass action.”
”The police kill”: let Darmanin come and get us!
22 October 2021, by“Philippe Poutou has only described a sad reality, which has been widely documented elsewhere.”