Whatever is happening to the Egyptians? | openDemocracy - 0 views
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In all cases, empirical evidence shows that the 1952 military-coup was not only rebellion against Egypt’s political regime, but also against the values and norms of its political subjects.
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If the repugnance or fear of the AUC community about [real] slums can be explained in terms of class tensions or a growing abyss between the classes, the question which prevails is: why would AUC students be entertained by observing a virtual slum? What is the fascination? And what is perceived as particularly “exceptional” about people who, a few years back, were not even perceived as “other”? How, and why, did no one raise this question as the event was being planned and organised? Did no one question the purpose or logic behind the construction of a virtual human zoo of people who are neither less human nor less Egyptian than those coming to observe them? I searched the images and messages displayed and communicated on the day of the event for some answers.
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Yet, it should definitely be taken into consideration that the struggle between the Nasserist social agenda and Sadat’s Infitah came to the surface in the July coup of 2013. A critical mass of the elites have now decisively aligned themselves with Sadat’s socio-economic policies (reflected in the recent economic forum, the reconciliation with corrupt businessmen, and the embrace of regressive taxation); bringing to the surface the symptoms of Sadat’s socio-economic revolution more vividly and bluntly
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Learning from social movement failure | openDemocracy - 0 views
Avaaz's Climate Vanity » TripleCrisis - 0 views
Sick and tired: Sri Lankan domestic workers fight back against violence | openDemocracy - 0 views
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As The International Labour Organisation has recognised ‘domestic workers, whether working in their home countries or abroad, are vulnerable to many forms of abuse, harassment and violence, in part because of the intimacy and isolation of the workplace’.
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What is likely to make a difference this time is that the allegations of violence against Abrew have been taken up by the Domestic Workers Union (DWU). The union has been able to mobilise support from fourteen other civil society organisations and trade unions, including the International Domestic Workers Federation and the Women’s Political Academy.
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The feminization of housework means that domestic work is considered low skilled, not ‘real work’. It is subject to the idiosyncratic standards and whims of each household, where varying degrees of docility and acquiesce are encouraged. I have seen domestic workers in Sri Lankan homes managed through the smallest of gestures – the nod of a head, a glance, the movement of fingertips.
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Shell's Arctic drilling is the real threat to the world, not kayaktivists | Environment... - 0 views
Social Movements Need To Be Aware of Corporate Influence & Opportunists [#OWS] | Wrong ... - 0 views
Socialism's Future Can't Be Its Failures - 0 views
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Without the tide of European revolution to buoy it, the new socialist government in Russia was attacked from all sides by the great capitalist powers. The liberatory promise of the Russian Revolution was not destroyed by a lack of democracy, an attempt to turn the world upside down, or even by Stalin. It was destroyed by the guns, bayonets and pogroms of the “White Army” funded and supported by every major capitalist power in the world. While the Bolshevik government survived, the revolution was smashed to bits, replaced by an empty bureaucracy ruling over the ruins of a working class.
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The lesson of the failure of the Russian Revolution is not that it placed insufficient emphasis on democracy. It was doomed by the fear of social democratic parties to challenge capital and their abandonment of internationalism.
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Like Sunkara, I am a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and (possibly unlike Sunkara) I believe there is a dialectical relationship between building working class power within the current system and building the potential for socialist revolution. The lesson of the defeat of the Russian Revolution is that the cost of our timidity is far worse than the cost of our boldness. To pretend otherwise is to doom the prospects of liberation and invite the terror and death of the 20th century once more.
'I won't stop': Jailed activist blasts US crackdown on anti-Trump protesters - 0 views
Geoffrey Pleyers.Post-2010.pdf - 0 views
Laurence Cox.Marxism.Neoliberalism.pdf - 0 views
de.soussa.santos.utopia.pdf - 1 views
Santos.Intro.Social.Forum.pdf - 0 views
Diigo - macintyre2007_informed-consent_15d.pdf - 0 views
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Nyamnjoh: Introduction – Academic Freedom in African Universities
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Fair trade often rewards to agri-business
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Parity, along with food production quotas and environmentally regulated supply management is critical for green new deal
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Crowdpac is an open platform, and the new politics is coming - 0 views
You Can’t Fake It | Jacobin - 0 views
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