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The Macabre Measure of Dalit-Bahujan Mobilisations
Philosophy POLITICS

The Macabre Measure of Dalit-Bahujan Mobilisations

Another Dalit girl is dead after being brutally raped, tortured and mutilated by upper caste men (Thakur caste belonging to the savarna Kshatriya varna) on 14 September in Hathras village in Uttar Pradesh, where ten rapes are committed every day according to official statistics, while many others go unreported. Hereby, another human identified as untouchable by…

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Algeria’s Forgotten Revolutionary History
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Algeria’s Forgotten Revolutionary History

Amilcar Cabral, the leader of the Bissau-Guinean armed struggle against colonial Portugal, once said about Algiers: “The Muslims make the pilgrimage to Mecca, the Christians to the Vatican, and the national liberation movements to Algiers.” Cabral was also the first to name Algiers “capital of revolutions” in 1969. By the early 1970s, Algeria had a…

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FORTRESS EUROPE
Poetry

FORTRESS EUROPE

Keep bangin on the walls Keep bangin on the walls OF FORTRESS EUROPE! 2022 -A new European order Robot guards patrolling the border Cybernetic dogs are getting closer and closer Armoured cars and immigration officers A burning village in Kosovo You bombed it out now you're telling us go home Machine guns strut on the…

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TRYING TIMES
Poetry POLITICS

TRYING TIMES

Dear Friends and comrades We are going through trying times. Humanity is on trial. This is the time when the worst and the best in us comes out in ways that we could not have imagined in normal times. We are used to saying ‘the personal is political’. Now the ‘social is personal’, so much…

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Little Things I Miss
Poetry POLITICS

Little Things I Miss

Little things I miss I miss laughter. I miss meeting and greeting people in the street. I miss my friends at Kijiweni. I miss the incessant chatter of baraza and utani between Yanga and Simba. And the argument among wazee of who is older than whom. I miss children in their uniforms walking to school.…

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THE POSTNORMAL PERFECT STORM PART 3
Philosophy POLITICS

THE POSTNORMAL PERFECT STORM PART 3

THE COVID CHRONICLES: THE POSTNORMAL PERFECT STORM - IN THREE PARTS PART 3: SCENARIOS FOR COVID-19 We analysed the postnormal characteristics and implications of Covid-19 crisis in the previous two parts of our exposition and devote Part 3 to an exploration of how the global Covid-19 pandemic might evolve in the future. We explore just…

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The Endogenous Ends of Education: For Aaron Swartz
Philosophy

The Endogenous Ends of Education: For Aaron Swartz

Through the words of the English translator of Agamben’s “Requiem per gli Studenti” (“Requiem for the Students”) we come to know that Italy is the exceptional place where the theory of exception holds — “Agamben refers specifically to developments in Italy.”[1] Agamben’s requiem sketches an idyll of the university which, he notes, is coming to an…

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“To Sing, To Dance, To Creolise and make Music”: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera On Transitions from the Present
ART INTERVIEWS Philosophy Poetry POLITICS

“To Sing, To Dance, To Creolise and make Music”: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera On Transitions from the Present

Oscar Guardiola-Riverateaches International Law and Globalization and is the Assistant Dean of the School of Law at the University of London, Birkbeck. He is the award-winning author of "What If Latin America Ruled the World" and "Being Against the World: Rebellion and Constitution". He is a member of the Naked Punch Collective and the Editorial…

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