Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by JAN Ammar Ali
The world today is overburdened with reactionary forms of nostalgia that induce revivalist fantasies of a glorious past. In recent years, Trump’s slogan – ‘Make America Great Again’ – is perhaps the most famous invocation of the past in the service of an ascendant right-wing project. A cleansed (...)
, by HEDGES Chris
The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives during the Cold War and dominates our lives now.
The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the world’s chess board, and the global (...)
, by SOLENBERGER Peter
SURVEILLANCE IS CONSTANTLY in the news. As I began writing this review, a major surveillance story broke that Facebook-owned WhatsApp is suing the NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company, for compromising mobile phones running WhatsApp.
WhatsApp encrypts voice, text, image and other data and is (...)
, by PARKER Ian
Mass social media, with Twitter as one of its key platforms, presents itself as the ultimate mass democratic instrument, forum for debate and action, and some on the left buy that. The Facebook logo was sprayed on city walls around Tahrir Square, as if the media platform was the original source (...)
, by CHEUNG Rachel
In her acceptance speech, Jeannette Ng denounced sci-fi legend Campbell – a known white supremacist – for creating a ‘sterile, male, white’ genre The award’s sponsor, Dell Magazines, admits it is considering renaming the award and it is only a matter of finding the right time
Hong Kong science (...)
, by PAVANELLI Rosa
From tech-billionaires to socialist leaders, Universal Basic Income (UBI) has caught the imagination of many across the political spectrum. This mechanism, which would give everyone regular cash payments that are enough to live on, regardless of income or work status, is increasingly promoted (...)
, by STIEBER Chelsea
The 1973 dystopian apocalyptic French novel that inspires today’s violent white, rightwing populism.
In mid-February 2019, US president, Donald Trump, declared a national emergency to combat an immigration “crisis” and “invasion” that is not based in fact, but in deep-rooted fears about the end of (...)
, by BUDEN Boris, GENOVA Neda
This interview was originally published in Bulgarian for dVERSIA (8/2017) on the occasion of the publication of the Bulgarian translation of Boris Buden’s book ‘Zone des Übergangs. Über das Ende des Postkommunismus’.
Neda Genova: There is a dominant discourse in Bulgaria which often mobilises an (...)
, by VENTURA Christophe
WHY DOES THE ISSUE OF SOVEREIGNTY SHOULD INTEREST SOCIAL MOVEMENTS?
This text aims to provide an open framework for discussion about the question of political sovereignty with a view to boost the work of the working groups on “Sovereignty and social movements.” It attempts to address this (...)
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