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Without being a hatchet job, Michael Jerryson’s latest book makes it clear that, like all religious traditions, Buddhism wears many faces.
What is there about Buddhism that leads so naturally to violence? This is a question that I posed to a group of startled policy professionals in (...)
IDENTITY POLITICS HAS something for everyone — but not in a good way. In her 2016 election campaign, Hillary Clinton invoked “intersectionality” and “white privilege” as a shallow gesture of allyship to young liberal voters. Richard Spencer and members of the “alt-right” refer to themselves as (...)
Fainan Lakha reviews a book by Asad Haider that makes a contribution toward helping activists in movements opposing oppression grapple with important debates.
Asad Haider, Mistaken identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump. Verso, 2018, 144 pages, $17.95.
SOME PHRASES demand a (...)
Writer and activist Farah Naqvi’s new book ‘Working with Muslims’ investigates the ‘Muslim question’.
Responses to the study
“We work with all poor people. We do not work with any specific community. We do not view people in terms of their religion or caste or community. We do not know (...)
On Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, a message to his followers: Don’t make the mistake of reducing Ambedkar to an infallible God – a similar mistake that many Gandhians did with Gandhi.
On Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, as I pay homage to him, I must confess that I began to (...)
The British left has an opportunity to shape a progressive English identity. It starts with abandoning elite liberal assumptions about working class Englishness.
It is 76 years since George Orwell wrote [for a British audience] that “in left-wing circles it is always felt that there is (...)
Sharon Smith, author of Women and Socialism: Class, Race and Capital, explains the roots of the concept of intersectionality and how it can help advance Marxist theory.
MANY ACTIVISTS who have heard the term “intersectionality” being debated on the left have found it difficult to define (...)
I was born in Iran; I am a migrant , a refugee. But I am not the “authentic other” that xenophobes love to hate nor am I the “authentic Muslim” promoted by the Islamists. To me, they are two sides of the same coin.
In this day and age, migrant or “Muslim” very often automatically equals (...)
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, Muslims don’t need allies. We need comrades.
For the past decade and a half, my family has reacted to every terrorist attack with a special kind of anxiety.
Setting aside any concern about falling victim to an explosion, we cross our fingers and (...)
This is a transcript of my talk at the Castrum Peregrini in Amsterdam on 2 May. (Apologies for the lack of links and references; I will sort them out in due course when I have more time.)
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Can Europe be the same with different people in it?’ So asked the American (...)
I’m glad to be an Indian, but I’m not a chest-thumping nationalist. I can understand and appreciate why many Indians (or for that matter, other nationals) emigrate and become naturalised citizens of other, typically developed, states. What I find it hard to understand is why some of them (...)
A few days ago I was surprised to hear a renowned journalist sit and boast about his Baluch lineage. The boasting stuck out because then it was accompanied with claims of good knowledge of the unfortunate province. The comfort with which he spoke about the archaic nature of the tribal culture, (...)
“TO BE ABLE TO BELONG SOMEWHERE, OTHERS HAVE TO AGREE THAT YOU BELONG THERE”
Noor Jdid is the Oslo-based author of a new book called Twisting Identity And Belonging Beyond Dichotomies. She is a member of the board of directors of Minority Politics Think Tank (Minotenk) and advisory board (...)
I was utterly delighted when Madonna labelled Obama a ‘black Muslim’ [[On September 26, 2012, pop star Madonna endorsed US President Barack Obama during a performance in Washington, DC, calling him a black Muslim. http://rt.com/usa/news/madonna-obama-house-president-978] ; she paid him back, (...)
The OWS movement took place after several years of absence of cohesive nationwide movements, and amidst an extreme fragmentation of struggles. The economic crisis and the evident iniquity of the austerity policies implemented by the government created the conditions for a new social explosion. (...)
My Story, Part 1
“You should know more about Islam.” I was at an anti-war event organized by my friend D., and was being admonished by a smug, white, almost-retired Marxist professor, the kind that’s all too common in the Rogers Park neighborhood, an area known for its vaunted progressive (...)
Has the liberating charge of struggles for recognition dissolved into pure identity politics? Do these have to sidestep inequalities of wealth and power? Not, Nancy Fraser contends, if recognition is understood as a question of social status rather than existential address.
In the seventies (...)
Book Review: A New Politics of Identity: Political Principles for an Interdependent World by Bhikhu Parekh, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. ix+317, price: 19.99 pounds
The most mind-boggling issue of the 21st century has been identity politics linked with caste, ethnicity, race, (...)
Since the rise of Pim Fortuyn in 2002, Islamophobia has played a central role in Dutch politics. Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party have now emerged as a threat to all progressive forces. There is no point in trying to change the subject and hoping the danger will pass; Islamophobia has to be (...)
By Ian Angus. From the first day it appeared online, Climate and Capitalism’s masthead has carried the slogan “Ecosocialism or Barbarism: there is no third way.” We’ve been quite clear that ecosocialism is not a new theory or brand of socialism — it is socialism with Marx’s important insights (...)
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