The year in film. By Louis Proyect (CounterPunch, December 19-21, 2014)
What was best in 2014? (SocialistWorker.org, December 18, 2014). “SocialistWorker.org readers speak up for their favorite movies, books, music and streaming content of the year.”
11. januar 2014
Den israelske krigsforbryderen Ariel Sharon dør, født 26. januar.
Den spanske venstrepopulistiske gruppe Podemos (= Vi kan) præsenterer sig offentligt.
Dansk (+ norsk)
Emneord: Podemos (Modkraft.dk). Med en lang række artikler (30. maj 2014 – ).
Nogle erfaringer fra Podemos – et tilbageblik på Pablo Iglesias’ epoke, hvor den spanske venstrefløj var i fremgang. Af Dave Kellaway (Socialistisk Information, 30. august 2021). “For omtrent en måned siden mislykkedes Pablo Iglesias’ forsøg på at bremse højrefløjens fremgang i regionalvalgene i Madrid. Nederlaget blev et personligt vendepunkt for ham, og han trak sig fra alle sine ledende poster i partiet Unidad Podemos og i PSOE’s regering.”
Podemos: Fra ‘vi kan’ til ‘vi kan måske ikke alligevel’. Af Niels Henrik Nielsen (Solidaritet.dk/Kritisk Revy, 15. august 2021). “Da Podemos-lederen Pablo Iglesias trådte ud af regeringen for at stille op som spidskandidat ved regionsvalget i marts i år, var det et forsøg på at genoplive ånden fra Indignados-bevægelse og genrejse det parti, der om nogen havde udtrykt et opgør med det etablerede system. Det lykkedes ikke. Og Podemos’ (Podemos betyder: ‘vi kan’) krise er åbenlys.”
Podemos: fra Spaniens kriseparti til et parti i krise. Af Óscar García Agustín (Solidaritet.dk, 15. maj 2021). “Den spanske venstrefløjs samlingsparti er havnet i en krise. De gamle partier er på vej frem igen, og Unidas Podemos leder nu efter en ny ledelse, der kan genoplive projektet, og lave politik, som mennesker forstår.”
Podemos mellem populisme og institutionalisme (pdf). Af Lasse Thomassen (Kritisk Debat, 1. marts 2021, s.51-60). “Det spanske venstrepopulistiske parti Podemos har fra starten måttet navigere mellem populisme og institutionalisme, og det har sat begrænsninger for deres ageren i den spanske politiske kontekst.” Scroll ned.
Podemos og venstrepopulismen i dag. Af Carsten Jensen (Kritisk Debat, 23. april 2019; online på DBC Webarkiv). “Kan Podemos holde momentum, og kan det stadig være et parti, der inspirerer til debat i andre dele af det europæiske venstre? Det er de styrende temaer for dette interview med Lasse Thomassen.”
En Podemos-finanslov? Af Eoghan Gilmartin og Tommy Greene (Socialistisk Information, 1. december 2018). “Podemos’ opbakning til Spaniens socialdemokratiske regering risikerer at gøre det til en støtte for de institutioner, som partiet engang gjorde oprør imod. Men det har også sat sit eget fingeraftryk på regeringens dagsorden.”
“Krisen” i Podemos. Af Miguel Urban Crespo og Brais Fernandez (Socialistisk Information, 24. april 2016). “De menige aktivister, der er rygraden i bevægelsen for forandring, ser på det, der bliver kaldt “krisen i Podemos” med vantro …”
Valget i Spanien: ustabilitet, turbulens og radikalisering. Af Arturo Rodriguez (Revolution, 18. december 2015)
Podemos og den spanske venstrepopulisme: fra klassepolitik til massepolitik. Af Carsten Jensen (Kritisk Debat, 15. december 2015). Anmeldelse af Pablo Iglesias: Politics in a Time of Crisis: Podemos and the Future of a Democratic Europe (Verso, 2015, 253 s.)
Podemos: fra protest til regeringsduelig. Af Óscar Garciá Agustin (Kritisk Debat, 16. februar 2015) Også på Modkraft/kontradoxa, 18. februar 2015) “… udfordrer ikke kun den spanske og europæiske elite, men også traditionel venstrefløjstankegang”
Podemos: ”Vores mål er endnu ikke opnået” (Revolution, nr.2, september 2014). David Rey, redaktør for avisen Lucha de Classes og aktivist i Izquierda Unida, om Podemos.
The taming of Podemos. By Héctor Sierra (International Socialism, Issue 174, Spring 2022). “This article asks what charting the trajectory of Podemos can add to a wider theorisation of left reformism.”
Thank You, Pablo Iglesias. By Eoghan Gilmartin and Tommy Greene (Jacobin, May 5, 2021). “Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias has announced his retirement. Over the last decade, he brought the radical left to the heart of Spanish politics — but its challenge to the establishment ultimately fell short.”
Radiance and sunset of Podemos – reasons for a farewell. By Manuel Garí (International Socialism Project, November 8, 2020). “The purpose of this article is to explain why it was necessary to create it and why it was necessary to abandon it. This has also meant reflecting on the balance sheet that can be made and the lessons that can be drawn from the actions of Izquierda Anticapitalista, now Anticapitalistas.”
Podemos: A ‘party-movement’ in government. By Manuel Cervera-Marzal (Jacobin, January 9, 2020). “Upon its creation in 2014, Podemos insisted it was nothing like the political parties that had long dominated Spain. Today, Pablo Iglesias’s party looks like an ever-more institutionalized force — yet one whose activists continue to see themselves as belonging to a ‘social movement’ from below.”
Podemos, Catalonia and the workers’ movement in the Spanish state. By Héctor Sierra (International Socialism, Issue 155, Summer 2017, p.51-72). “Here it will be argued that the two key areas where the Spanish ruling class could have been confronted and undermined … were not successfully addressed by the Podemos campaign.”
Explaining the fading fortunes of Podemos (SocialistWorker.org, July 7, 2016). “Tom Lewis takes stock of the disappointing electoral showing for the radical party Podemos.”
State of change. By Andy Durgan (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 13 June 2016). “Without mass mobilization, Unidos Podemos’s electoral success won’t match up against the forces of austerity.”
Reassessing Podemos. By Andy Brown (International Socialism, Issue 150, Spring 2016). “[A look] at the nature of the Podemos project in the Spanish state and the question of how the left should relate to it.”
Portrait of the leader as a young theorist. By Alberto Toscano (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 19 December 2015). “Ahead of tomorrow’s elections, what do the writings of Pablo Iglesias tell us about where Podemos is going?”
A year of change postponed? By Luke Stobart (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 18 December 2015). “Spain votes in a general election on Sunday. Can Podemos reclaim its earlier momentum?”
Politics in a time of crisis. By Andy Brown (Socialist Review, Issue 406, October 2015). Review of Pablo Iglesias, Politics in a Time of Crisis: Podemos and the Future of Democracy in Europe (Verso, 2015, 256 p.)
Understanding Podemos. By Pablo Iglesias (New Left Review, Issue 93, May-June 2015, p.7-22). See also Pablo Iglesias: Spain on the edge (ibid., p.23-42)
A new left rising? Spain’s Podemos. By Manuel Gari (International Socialist Review, Issue 97, Summer 2015)
Challenges for Podemos (Socialist Review, Issue 402, May 2015). “Andy Durgan examines the development and limitations of the radical new party, Podemos.”
Podemos and the paradigm shift. By César Rendueles & Jorge Sola (Jacobin: A Magazine of Culture and Polemic, April 13, 2015). “… what are the limits to its populist strategy?”
The problem with Podemos. By Alberto Garzón (Jacobin: A Magazine of Culture and Polemic, March 13, 2015). “… is its populism enough to transform Spanish politics?”
The challenge of Podemos. By Manel Barriere, Andy Durgan and Sam Robson (International Socialism, Issue 145, Winter 2015). “Members of Podemos and En lucha/En lluita in Spain assess the astonishing rise of new left wing party Podemos.”
Where left populism leads (Weekly Worker, Issue 1038, 11 December 2014). “Those who have had such high hopes in Podemos will surely see them dashed, says Daniel Harvey.”
Fighting the new fascism: Juan Carlos Monedero on Podemos, Spain’s new political force. By Sebastiaan Faber (The Volunteer, September 9, 2014). Interview with “one of the party’s founders, political scientist Juan Carlos Monedero.”
Spain’s Podemos: Inside view of a radical left sensation (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, July 15, 2014). “What is the thinking and strategy behind Spain’s new radical political sensation? Podemos European election campaign chief Iñigo Errejón explains.”
Spanish state: Eruption of Podemos sparks turmoil left and right. By Dick Nichols (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, July 1, 2014). “The bigger Podemos’s circles are and the more they distance themselves from fetishising the word ‘left’ …”
Can new left party Podemos make a change in Spain? (Socialist Worker, Issue 2407, 10 June 2014). “As the Spanish state strains under the pressures of the crisis, activists told Dave Sewell about the new party Podemos …”
The rise of Podemos. By Guillem Murcia (SocialistWorker.org, June 18, 2014). “On the sources of Podemos’ election success, and explains the political backdrop to the surprising result.”
Se også/See also:
How can the left topple the bosses’ Europe? By Mark L Thomas (Socialist Review, Issue 397, December 2014). “The rise of left formations such as Syriza and Podemos presents new challenges.”
Se også på Socialistisk Bibliotek:
Tidslinjen: 15. maj 2011 om oprørsbevægelsen Democracia real YA (= M15).
Tidslinjen: 13. april 2014 om Ernesto Laclau. (Se nedenfor)
Source: In Support of Podemos (Public Voices, Vol.1, No.2, Summer 2014). We express our support of this initiative, of its open and participatory method, hoping that its efforts will materialize and spread throughout many other countrieswe express our support of this initiative, of its open and participatory method, hoping that its efforts will materialize and spread throughout many other countries.. Signed: Gilbert Achcar, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Slavoj Ziezek, et al.
30. januar 2014
Trods modstand, bl.a. rekordstor online underskriftsindsamling, uro i regeringspartiers baglande og demonstration samme dag, vedtager Folketingets Finansudvalg på forslag af finansminister Bjarne Corydon at sælge 19% af energiselskabet DONG til den berygtede amerikanske investeringsbank Goldman Sachs.
Udsalg af arvesølvet? Af Karen Helveg Petersen (29. januar 2014). “Artiklen gennemgår nogle aspekter af Dongs finansielle position og værdiansætning samt de risici, det står over for.”
Andre links:
Goldman Sachs (Wikipedia.dk). Med links om DONG-købet.
Nyrup om DONG-sagen: Der var en ekstrem mangel på kompetence i Finansministeriet. Af Erik Holstein (Altinget.dk, 20. februar 2017). Interview med Poul Nyrup Rasmussen: “DONG-ledelsen havde en privat økonomisk interesse i, at firmaet blev vurderet så lavt som muligt.”
Det gyldne projekt, der blæste i vinden. Af Anders-Peter Mathiasen og Erik Valeur (Politiken.dk, kronik, 29. december 2016). “Investeringsbanken Goldman Sachs og en række ledende Dong-folk blev forgyldt, da staten solgte de aktier, som kort efter steg til skyhøjt niveau. Nu undersøger Rigsrevisionen forløbet.”
Salget af Dong ligner en ny tamilsag. Af Anders-Peter Mathiasen (Politiken.dk, kronik, 4. november 2015). “Det danske samfund har mistet en formue ved at fraskrive sig Dong – er det ikke på tide at Rigsrevisionen kigger på hele suppedasen?” Se også: Kronik på Vildspor. Misforståelser og fakta vedr. bogen ’Det bedste bud’. Svar på kronikken i Politikken af Martin Barlebo, kommunikationschef i DONG Energy (orsted.com, 10. november 2015)
18 timers eftertanke. Af Anders-Peter Mathiasen (Information.dk, 11. april 2015). Se også hans ny bog: Det bedste bud (People’s Press, 2015, 250 sider) + anmeldelse af Niels Nørgaard: Goldman Sachs vinder altid: Forrygende bog giver indblik i dramaet bag (Politiken.dk, 24. april 2015).
»Stop salget af DONG. Gør det« (Solidaritet.dk, 20. september 2019). “I anledning af udgivelsen af Kim Kristensens bog om Enhedslistens første 30 år, bringer Solidaritet her et uddrag fra bogen, der kigger på partiets reaktion på DONG-salget.” (Det hærdede stål:historien om Enhedslistens første 25 år i Folketinget, Momenta, 2019, 300 s.).
SFs formand Annette Wilhelmsen bebuder sin afgang som formand, ekstraordinært landsmøde og at SF går fra Thorning-Schmidts S-R-SF-regering. Begrundelsen har baggrund i partiets kritiske holdning til salget af 19% aktier i DONG, som medførte, at flere markante forlod ledelsen af Folketingsgruppen og partiet. Og som medfører, at flere ministre forlader SF. Astrid Krag til Socialdemokraterne og Ida Auken til Det Radikale Venstre.
Sidste nr. af VS- tidsskriftet Solidaritet udkommer. Startet som 4 siders 4-uddelingsblad udgivet af «unge arbejdere og studenter», VSs partiforening i Herning.
Demonstrationer mod privatiseringer og arbejdsløshed starter i Tuzla og spreder sig til en række andre byer i Bosnien-Hercegovina til større strejker, protester og opstand mod regeringen.
På dansk:
‘På vej ud af kontrol i en rivende fart’. Her er 5 ting, du skal vide om krisen i Bosnien (Solidaritet.dk, 18. december 2021). “Situationen i Bosnien er blevet anspændt, og risikoen for en ny krig er rykket nærmere. Ulrik Kohl og Eva Milsted Enoksen er selv bosat i landets hovedstad Sarajevo, og skriver om de væsentligste grunde til, at tingene igen er ved at løbe løbsk på Balkan.”
Bosnien-Hercegovina: Basisdemokratisk oprør mod nationalisme og fattigdom. Af Krsto Lazarevic (Autonom Infoservice, 1. maj 2014). “Efter hårde konfrontationer med statsmagten og med nationalister i februar 2014 er der opstået basis- demokratiske strukturer i form af folkeforsamlinger i talrige byer i Bosnien-Hercegovina. De har opstillet en del sociale fælles krav og kræver regeringens afgang.”
Tuzla, arbejdernes og folkets ukendte hovedstad i Europa (Socialistisk Information, 24. marts 2014). “Olivier Besancenot fra det franske NPA rapporterer fra en rejse til Tuzla, som er centrum for et socialt oprør mod privatiseringer og korrupte politikere. Oprøret har bredt sig til hele Bosnien-Herzegovina og tvunget regeringen til at gå af, mens folkeforsamlinger begynder at overtage styringen.”
Socialt oprør i Bosnien-Herzegovina. Af Catherine Samary (Socialistisk Information, 23. februar 2014). “Foråret er kommet allerede midt i vinterkulden, og ingen ved, hvor langt den sociale og demokratiske eksplosion vil gå. Men allerede nu står det klart, at den vil efterlade dybe spor, og at den kan sprede sig som en steppebrand.”
Støt befolkningen i Bosnien-Herzegovina. Af Tariq Ali mfl. (Socialistisk Information, 19. februar 2014). “Vi underskrivere udtrykker vores fulde støtte til befolkningen i Bosnien-Herzegovinas legitime krav og retfærdige vrede. Deres råb om et anstændigt liv, sand demokrati, en solidaritet uden grænser – hverken etniske, nationale eller religiøse, social lighed og retfærdighed – .”
Folkelig opstand ryster Bosnien-Hercegovina. Af Rune Eltard-Sørensen (Modkraft.dk, 1. februar 2014). “Regeringsbygninger sat i brand og folkekomitéer oprettet i flere byer: Protester mod privatiseringer og arbejdsløshed har udløst krav om demokratisering af det politiske system i Bosnien-Hercegovina.” Med mange links.
Fremragende kaos i Bosnien. Af Slavoj Ziezek (Information.dk, 13. februar 2014). “For første gang siden borgerkrigen og den etniske udrensning demonstrerer bosniakker, kroater og serbere nu sammen imod deres nationalistiske ledere.”
Tidslinjen: 17. februar 2008 om Kosovos selvstændighed/on the independence of Kosovo.
10. februar 2014
Den britiske venstrefløjs-kulturhistoriker Stuart Hall dør i London (født 3. februar 1932 i Kingston, Jamaica). Aktiv i grundlæggelsen af bl.a. tidsskrifterne New Left Review og Marxism Today.
Stuart Hall Project (YouTube.com, 2013). “… this documentary interweaves 70 years of Stuart Hall’s film, radio and television appearances, and material from his private archive …” One is this:
The despair of the reformist (pdf). By Alex Callinicos (Socialist Review, June 1983). Review of Martin Jacques and Stuart Hall, The Politics of Thatcherism (Lawrence & Wishart, 1983)
The new revisionism in Britain. By Ralph Miliband (New Left Review, Issue 150, March-April 1985, p.5-26). Only abstract online.
Se også på Socialistisk Bibliotek:
Tidslinjen: januar 1960 om tidsskriftet New Left Review.
27. februar 2014
Efter at opstanden “Euromaidan” i Ukraine førte til indsættelse af en overgangsregering 21. februar og præsident Viktor Janukovitjs flugt, bliver der dannet en udbryderregering på Krim. Russiske soldater tager derefter kontrol over Krim-halvøens militære forlægninger, lufthavne og lokalparlamentets bygning.
Opstanden i Ukraine startede 21. november 2013, se Tidslinjen for links.
Konflikten i Ukraine: endnu en langvarig, fastfrosset konflikt? Af Søren Riishøj (Solidaritet.dk, 5. november 2019). Anmeldelse af Jens Malling: Krigen i Ukraine – hvordan en geopolitisk konflikt sønderriver et europæisk land (Trembita, 2019, 336 s.). “Hvordan et fornuftigt kompromis om Ukraine kan se ud, får vi ikke svar på i bogen, men den giver et godt indblik i, hvorfor det er svært.”
Ukraine – i Vesten og i virkelighedens verden. Af Jens Jørgen Nielsen (Kritisk Debat, 15. april 2015; online på DBC Webarkiv). “Stadig mere tyder på, at ’det ukrainske projekt’ ikke vil lykkes. For det første står det ret klart, at den ’ukrainske revolution’ ikke udgjorde et opgør med oligark-strukturen …”
Syndikalister i Ukraine: Den fascistiske fare er størst i de russisk besatte områder. Af Asbjørn Nielsen og Maja Maria Christensen (Modkraft.dk/Kontradoxa, 11. marts 2015). Interview med aktivister fra organisationen Autonomous Workers Union.
Det store magtspil: Ukraine i fokus. Af Steffen Østergaard Sørensen (Socialistisk Information, 1. november 2014). Anmeldelse af Demos Dokumentationsgruppe: Det store magtspil – med Ukraine i fokus (Demos Nyhedsbrev, nr.109-111, 2014, 59 sider)
Ukraine-krisen og en ny verdensorden? Af Jens Jørgen Nielsen (Kritisk Debat, 15. oktober 2014; online på DBC Webarkiv). “Krisen i Ukraine har ikke bare en regional betydning. De politiske og økonomiske følgevirkninger rækker langt ud i fremtiden og får konsekvenser for hele verden, selvfølgelig ikke mindst for EU.”
Ukranie-konflikten: At skyde sig selv i foden. Af Jens Jørgen Nielsen (Kritisk Debat, 15. august 2014; online på DBC Webarkiv). “De sociale forhold i Ukraine er katastrofale, og landet er dybt splittet af en borgerkrig. Udviklingen er ikke til gavn for Europa.”
Ukraine: Mellem pest og kolera – er der en udvej? Af Joanne Landy (Socialistisk Information, 22. juli 2014). “Regeringerne i USA og Rusland forsøger at tilpasse situationen i Ukraine til deres egne interesser, ikke til gavn for det ukrainske folk. Ukraine har længe lidt under dominansen fra Moskva, under de russiske zarer og senere i Sovjetunionen, som det mest rædselsvækkende, under Stalin.”
Ukraine og vestens hykleri. Af Jens Jørgen Nielsen (Kritisk Debat, 15. april 2014; online på DBC Webarkiv). “Jeg har mulighed for at følge med i både vestlig og russisk mediedækning af hele Ukraine-problematikken. Der er tale om to helt forskellige fortællinger, narrativer, som det hedder lidt mere akademisk.”
Vestens rolle i Ukraines gasproblemer. Af Karen Helveg Petersen (Arbejderen.dk, 27. marts 2014). “Naturgasforsyningen fra Rusland til Ukraine og Vesteuropa er en faktor i den igangværende konflikt i området. Bag larmen fra krigstrommerne i Europas sydøstlige hjørne ligger blandt andet det betændte forhold omkring naturgasforsyningen fra Rusland til Ukraine og Vesteuropa.”
Ruslands anneksion af Krim: hvilke konsekvenser for internationale relationer? Af Francesco Merli (Revolution, 24. marts 2014). “Putins tale understreger den stigende frustration hos den herskende klasse i Rusland, mod USA’s konstante indblanding i hvad de anser som deres naturlige indflydelsessfære.”
Solidaritet vil redde Ukraine fra intervention (Socialistisk Information, 8. marts 2014). “Den socialistiske sammenslutning ‘Venstreoppositionen’ fremlægger sin vurdering af den russiske agression i Krim og de ukrainske nationalisters destruktive rolle.”
Storpolitiken, Ukraine og den danske mediepropaganda. Af Curt Sørensen (Modkraft.dk/Blog, 6. marts 2014). “Jeg skal love for at Jakob Lindbloms – i øvrigt fortræffelige – artikel om udviklingen i og omkring Ukraine har fremkaldt betydelig ophidselse og en del vrede indlæg … Jeg skal blot i al stilfærdighed i forlængelse af Jakobs indlæg fremhæve den storpolitiske indramning.”
EU’s hykleri i Ukraine. Af Jacob Lindblom (Modkraft.dk/Blog, 5. marts 2014). “For at forstå det ukrainske galehus, så kræver det lidt historie.”
Topics: Ukraine (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal)
A US-backed, far right–led revolution in Ukraine helped bring us to the brink of war. By Branko Marcetic (Jacobin, February 7, 2022). “In 2014 Ukraine, great power gamesmanship, righteous anger at a corrupt status quo, and opportunistic far-right extremists toppled the government in the Maidan Revolution. Today’s crisis in Ukraine can’t be understood without understanding Maidan.”
Self-determination for Ukraine! (Workers’ Liberty, 5 January 2022). “Marko Bojcun spoke to Sacha Ismail about the threat of conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Marko is an independent writer and former academic.”
Explaining Ukraine’s second Maidan. By Maciej Bancarzewski (International Socialism, Issue 158, Spring 2018). Review of Chris Kaspar de Ploeg, Ukraine in the Crossfire (Clarity Press, 2017, 353 p.): “The book is a critical left wing antidote to the media bias and blackout on Ukrainian current affairs.”
A socialist case for Ukraine (Socialist Review, Issue 400, March 2015). “On the anniversary of the fall of Ukrainian President Yanukovych, which marked the onset of the current conflict, Rob Ferguson and Tomas Tengely-Evans interview Volodymyr Ishchenko in Kiev.”
Leftists, Liberals, and Ukraine: A tale of double standards. By Stephen Velychenko (Krytyka, March 2015). Review of Stephen Lendman (ed.), Flashpoint Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III (Clarity Press, 2014): “Pro-Kremlin leftists and liberals seem to think Putin’s Russian neoliberal capitalism preferable to Anglo-American and European neoliberal capitalism and tolerate his imperialist drive to maintain Russian hegemony if not full control over Ukraine.”
The oligarchic rebellion in the Donbas. By Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski (International Viewpoint, Issue 480, January 2015). “In the geopolitics of domination of Russian imperialism in Ukraine and all along the western extent of the “Russian World” – conceived in the monarchist-orthodox manner and that of the Black Hundreds and White Guards – the Donbas is extremely important.”
Russian imperialism today. By Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, November 27, 2014). “Over the centuries, until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the peoples who were conquered and annexed by Russia suffered three successive forms of Russian imperialist domination.”
Ukraine: No siding with nationalists (Weekly Worker, Issue 1025, 11 September 2014). “Eddie Ford argues that working class political independence cannot be built by backing the pawns of imperialism.”
Ukraine: imperialism, war and the left. By Rob Ferguson (International Socialism, Issue 144, Autumn 2014). “A debate has emerged on the left over how to respond to Russia’s role in the conflict. Behind these debates lie differences in approach to the understanding of imperialism in general and, among Marxists, how we should apply our understanding of the classic theory of imperialism developed by revolutionaries in the early 20th century.”
The Russian far right. By Ben Neal (The Project: A Socialist Journal, September 3, 2014; online at Internet Archive). “… [about] the Russian far right and the extent of its involvement in the civil war currently raging in south eastern Ukraine.”
Understanding the Civil War in Ukraine. By David Mandel (The Bullet, E-Bulletin, No.1025, August 24, 2014). “My goal is to offer a framework that can help in understanding and evaluating the mass of information about the conflict coming from governments and the media.”
Crisis in Ukraine (pdf) (A New Politics pamphlet, June 2014, 24 p.). “Here we offer three articles that we think help us make sense of what’s going on, by Joanne Landy, Kevin B. Anderson, and Sean Larson. Landy and Anderson attempt to provide a political assessment of what has been going on, while Larson offers some important background on the Ukrainian elite.”
Ukraine’s fractures (New Left Review, Issue 87, May-June 2014). Også i svensk oversættelse på Marxistarkiv.se (pdf, 18 s.). “Kiev-based sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko discusses the unfolding of the Ukrainian crisis and its outcomes to date.”
Ukraine’s spiraling crisis. By David Finkel (Solidarity (US), May 7, 2014). “The crisis is closer to the point where one explosion or tactical miscalculation might overtake the rational calculations of imperial state interests.” With links to Darkness in May: A socialist eye-witness in Odessa (May 4) + interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko, a sociologist studying social protests in Ukraine (April 19).
Eye-witnesses in Odessa (Solidarity (UK), Issue 323, 7 May 2014). “Articles by Ukrainian and Russian left activists (and one by the Russian Communist Party) about last Friday’s events in Odessa …”
Boris Kagarlitsky on eastern Ukraine: The logic of a revolt (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, May 1, 2014). “Boris Kagarlitsky on the background to Ukraine’s growing revolutionary movement in the south east”.
Ukraine: a carnival of reaction looms? By Rob Ferguson (Socialist Review, Issue 391, May 2014). “The most reactionary forces have seized the initiative on both sides of the divide.”
Report from a visit in Kiev in April 2014 (Libcom.org, April 29, 2014). “These are notes from discussions with activists of left-wing groups in Kiev in April 2014, including members from the Autonomous Workers’ Union, Left Opposition and Student Direct Action, as well as visits at Maidan.”
Where is Putin’s Russia going? (SocialistWorker.org, April 22, 2014). Interview with Ilya Budraitskis, a historian and spokesperson for the Russian Socialist Movement.
Imperial delusions. By Alex Callinicos (International Socialism, Issue 142, Spring 2014). “The reaction of the Western left to this enormous crisis has been, to put it mildly, confused. Far too many (including some who should know better) have been willing to cast a blind eye at or find excuses for Russia’s military intervention.”
A CounterPunch special report: The Ukraine imbroglio and the decline of the American Empire. By Arno J. Mayer (April 18-20, 2014). “It might also be salutary to note that this standoff on Ukraine-Crimea is taking place in the unending afterglow of the Second Cold War and at a time when the sun is beginning to set on the American Empire as a new international system of multiple great powers emerges.”
Boris Kagarlitsky on Ukraine: From the Maidan to the revolution? (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, April 13, 2014). “In Ukraine, a genuine revolution is unfolding. This may seem strange, but it is something very characteristic of the history of that country.”
Is Crimea another Kosovo? (SocialistWorker.org, March 27, 2014). “James Robertson recounts the history of Kosovo, before and after the breakup of the ex-Yugoslavia, and assesses the accuracy of Russia’s comparisons to Crimea.”
Annexations. By Susan Watkins (New Left Review, Issue 86, March-April 2014). “The actual record of 20th-century land grabs, and the cross-cutting geopolitical pressures bearing down on Ukraine.”
Editor of Ukranian leftwing site: The enemy is within (In Defence of Marxism, 25 March 2014). “We publish an interview with Ukrainian left-wing activist Kolesnik Dmitry. The interview gives an excellent insight to the situation in Ukraine and the forces that are at play.”
Ukraine: four points in response to Chris Nineham. By Anindya Bhattacharyya, Estelle Cooch and Ben Neal (RS21: Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century, March 24, 2014). “It suffers from a degree of strawfiguring: caricaturing one’s opponents’ positions, but we are all guilty of that to some extent. We want to mark, however, that “the main enemy is at home” was a response to the left openly backing their domestic imperialist war effort.”
Ukraine: why being neutral won’t stop a war (Counterfire, 23 March 2014). “Chris Nineham argues that being against imperialism in general isn’t enough – anti-war activists in the West need to oppose the aggressive expansion of the Nato military alliance.”
Ukraine: Positions of the European left (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, March 21, 2014). “A number of European left parties have released statements on the developments in Ukraine, Crimea and the region.”
The battle over Ukraine intensifies (SocialistWorker.org, March 19, 2014). “Alan Maass reports on the latest stage of a crisis that could tear Ukraine apart.”
Discussion: What stand for socialists on events in Crimea and Ukraine? By Roger Annis (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, March 18, 2014). “Two distinct views on the left have emerged to describe the political upheaval that has shaken Ukraine and Crimea in recent months.”
Crimea: a divisive, dangerous assault. By Gabriel Levy (New Socialist, 17 March 2014). “Struggles over social issues could be the starting-point for countering the poisonous effect of pro-Russian separatism on one side and extreme Ukrainian nationalism on the other. But radical socialists in Kyiv and in eastern Ukrainian cities emphasise that, in the immediate future, launching such struggles will not be easy.”
Who benefits from Ukraine’s economic crisis? (Hint: not average Ukrainians). By Jack Rasmus (Common Dreams, March 17, 2014). “What interests—in the Ukraine and global (i.e. western Europe, USA, Russia)—stand to benefit economically from recent and future events in the Ukraine? Who stands to lose?”
Ukraine and the national question (SocialistWorker.org, March 11, 2014). “Sean Larson and Lee Sustar explain how the imperial relationship with Russia has affected Ukraine’s economic and political developments, past and present.”
A contradictory revolt in Ukraine. By Tomas Tengely-Evans (Socialist Review, Issue 389, March 2014). “The situation in Ukraine is fast moving and complex and it is easy to misunderstand what’s at play.”
Crimea: Danger of wider conflict. By Eddie Ford (Weekly Worker, Issue 1000, March 6, 2014). “Vladimir Putin is unlikely to back down over Crimea.”
Russian socialists against the war (SocialistWorker.org, March 5, 2014). “On March 1, as Russian forces were completing their takeover in Crimea, the Russian Socialist Movement issued this statement saying no to war in Ukraine.”
Polite intervention’ and the Ukrainian uprising. By Boris Kagarlitsky (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, March 4, 2014). “The truth is that large-scale capital, both private and bureaucratic, has no need at present for a war.”
Statement of left and anarchist organizations about “Borotba” organization (English, German, Polish, French, Serbo-Croatian) (Avtonomia.net, March 3, 2014). “We, the collectives and members of Ukrainian leftist and anarchist organizations, announce that “Borotba” union is not a part of our movement.”
The threat of war hangs over Ukraine (SocialistWorker.org, March 3, 2014). “Alan Maass and Lee Sustar provide the background for understanding Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine–and inter-imperialist rivalries that are coming to a head.”
Putin raises the stakes in imperialist Crimea crisis. By Alex Callinicos (Socialist Worker, Issue 2392, 3 March 2014). “Putin is engaging in an inter-imperialist power play. He is betting on the weakness of his rivals. He’s probably right about this.”
Declaration of Internationalists against the war in Ukraine (Aitrus.info, March 2, 2014). Signed by KRAS, Russian section of the International Workers Association, Internationalists of Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Israel, Lithuania, Romania, Poland, Anarchist Federation of Moldova, Fraction of the Revolutionary Socialists (Ukraine), Workers Solidarity Alliance (North America).
10 things to remember about the crisis in Ukraine and the Crimea. By Lindsey German (Counterfire, 2 March 2014). “The situation in Ukraine and the Crimea and the rivalry between the West and Russia threatens to explode into a much larger war than has been seen for many years.” See critique from Richard Seymour: Ukraine: against infantile realpolitik (Lenin’s Tomb, March 5, 2014).
Crimea – not ‘ours’ or ‘yours’ (LeftEast, 2 March 2014). “Events in Ukraine are moving at a terrifying speed. This statement was prepared by the editors of the OpenLeft in the morning of March 1, 2014. Today, March 2, Russians in different cities will hold rallies against a possible Russian intervention into Ukraine.” Svensk udgave på Marxistarkiv.se (pdf).
Ukraine: between Russia and the West. By Alastair Stephens (Counterfire, 2 March 2014). “Ukraine risks being torn apart by forces encouraged by the West and their pro-Russian opponents.”
Ukraine: Regime fall followed by fresh chaos. By Tony Iltis (Green Left Weekly, Issue 999, March 1, 2014). “The corruption and anti-people economic policies of the politicians elected after the “Orange Revolution” ― protests that brought down the government in 2004 ― has created scepticism about establishment politicians of all parties.”
Behind the Ukraine crisis (Socialism Today, Issue 176, March 2014). “Rob Jones looks at the different forces behind the Ukraine crisis.”
For the independence of Soviet Ukraine. By Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski (Life on the Left, March 6, 2022). “Originally published in the International Marxist Review, in 1989, while Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union … The text explains the reasoning behind the demand as it was developed in the complex experience of the early Soviet government grappling with the Great Russian prejudices and practices inherited from the Tsarist regime.”
Problem of the Ukraine. By Leon Trotsky (Socialist Appeal, May 9, 1939; online at Marxists Internet Archive). “… his analysis in this article has withstood the test of the years and the turbulent events they encompassed. Today, more than a decade later the struggle of Yugoslavia against the oppressive Great Russian chauvinism of the Kremlin confirms what Trotsky wrote in 1939.”
Se også på Socialistisk Bibliotek:
Tidslinjen 24. februar 2022 om Ruslands militære angreb på Ukraine.
Tidslinjen 3. august 2008 om det russiske angreb på Georgien.
14. marts 2014
Den britiske Labour-venstrefløjspolitiker Tony Benn dør i London (fødes 3. april 1925, se denne).
13. april 2014
Den politiske filosof og “postmarxist” Ernesto Laclau dør i Sevilla, Spanien (født 6. oktober 1935 i Buenos Aires, Argentina). Bla. kendt fra bogen Hegemony and Socialist Strategy fra 1985, skrevet sammen med partneren Chantal Mouffe (see the book online at Libcom.org).
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (Wikipedia.org)Nekrolog over vnstrepopulismen. Noget kunne tyde på, at venstrepopulismen er nået til vejs ende. : Af Matthis Dessler-Bredsforff. (information, 16.december 2022, bogkritik, side 16+14:).
“Chantal Mouffe var det seneste årtis vigtigste strateg på venstrefløjen. I dag har hendes ideer tabt fra Madrid til London. Ny bog af den belgiske tænker provokerer spørgsmålet: Var Mouffes venstrepopulisme nogensinde mere end smart politisk marketing?”
Anmeldelsea af Towards Green Democratic Revolution. Left Populism and the Power of Affects.(Verso Press, 2022, 98 s. Forlagsomtale
Diskursteori som projekt og alternativ – en oversigt over Ernesto Laclaus og Chantal Mouffes større udgivelser, 2008-2016. Af Carsten Jensen (Slagmark, nr.74, efterår 2016). Essayanmeldelse: “Postmarxisme eller diskursteori er de ord, Ernesto Laclau og Chantal Mouffe selv har hæftet på deres form for politisk teori og filosofi.”
Højrefløjen skal bekæmpes med populisme. Af Torben Clausen (Information.dk, 9. juli 2001). Interview med Ernesto Laclau: “Den argentinske politiske filosof Ernesto Laclau efterlyser en ny folkelig og mere populistisk politik.”
Både post-marxisme og post-marxisme: Erneste Laclau og Chantal Mouffes diskursteori (pdf). Af Jacob Torfing (Arbejderhistorie, nr.2, 1998, s.32-44). “En række centrale marxistiske indsigter har overlevet indenfor de samfundsfaglige miljøer på de danske universiteter, blandt andet i kraft af at de er blevet omplantet og har fået et nyt voksested indenfor Ernesto Laclau og Chanta lMouffes diskursteori.”
Ernesto Laclau, Podemos inspirationskälla (pdf). Av Razmig Keucheyan och Renaud Lambert (Le Monde Diplomatique: norsk utgave, nr.10, oktober 2015; online på Marxistarkiv.se). “Han har fått stort inflytande inom den radikala vänstern i Spanien, men hans synsätt förtjänar en kritisk bedömning.”
Ernesto Laclau: Post-Marxism, Populism and Critique. By Will Horner (Marx & Philosophical Review of Books, 16 July 2015). Review of David Howarth’s (ed.) book (Routledge, 2014, 294 p.). “… the sad passing of Laclau in April last year means this volume is one of the first attempts to present the totality of Laclau’s corpus.”
Ernesto Laclau obituary. By Robin Blackburn (The Guardian, 23 May 2014). “Argentinian philosopher whose ideas influenced politicians from Latin America’s new left.”
Ernesto Laclau (1935–2014) (RS21: Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century, April 16, 2014). “Adrià Porta Caballé looks back at his life and pays tribute.”
Ernesto Laclau, 1935-2014. By Robin Blackburn (Verso, Blog, 14 April 2014). “He was the author of landmark studies of Marxist theory and of populism as a political category and social movement.”
Post-Marxism: An intellectual history (pdf). By Stuart Sim (Routledge, 2000; online at Internet Archive WayBackMachine). See chapter 2-3: “The Laclau–Mouffe affair” (p.12-47).
Mistaken identity – or can identity politics liberate the oppressed? By Sharon Smith (International Socialism, Issue 62, Spring 1994, p.3-50). Scroll down to the section: Post-Marxism: politics in a void (p.25-32), with a critique of Laclau/Mouffe.
God only knows (pdf) (Marxism Today, December 1991, p.56-58). “Ernesto Laclau discusses why marxism as a system of thought is outmoded.”
Defending the orthodoxy. By Paul Kellogg (International Socialism, Issue 37, Winter 1988, p.118–130). Review of of Ernesto Laclau & Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony & Socialist Strategy (Verso, 1985). “Hegemony is an eloquent textbook of the new revisionism but is completely dishonest in its method.”
Post-Marxism? By Norman Geras (New Left Review, Issue 163, May-June 1987, p.40-82). Only first page online.
Post-Marxism without apologies. By Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe (New Left Review, Issue 166, November-December 1987, p.79-106). Only first page online. See the whole article at Libcom.org.
Marxism or Post-Marxism? By Nicos Mouzelis (New Left Review, Issue 167, January-February 1988, p.107-123). Only first page online.
Ex-Marxism without substance: Being a real reply to Laclau and Mouffe. By Norman Geras (New Left Review, Issue 169, May-June 1988, p.34-62). Only first page online.
Beyond class? A reply to Chantal Mouffe. By Peter Meiksins and Ellen Meiksins Wood (Studies in Political Economy, Issue 17, 1985, p.141-165). “In her article Chantal Mouffe calls for a redefinition of the socialist project.”
Photo: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe (Source: Understanding Podemos: Radical populism (Left Flank, November 2014).
Litteratur:
Chantal Mouffe. Af Carsten Jensen (Jurist- og Økonomforbundet, 2013, 135 sider)
Det radikale demokrati: diskursteoriens politiske perspektiv. Af Ernesto Laclau og Chantal Mouffe (Roskilde Universitetsforlag, 2002, 274 sider)
Demokrati og hegemoni. Af Ernesto Laclau og Chantal Mouffe. Red. Carsten Jensen (Akademisk Forlag, 1997, 211 sider)
Se også:
Diskursteori som projekt og alternativ – en oversigt over Ernesto Laclaus og Chantal Mouffes større udgivelser, 2008-2016. Af Carsten Jensen (Slagmark, nr.74, efterår 2016). Essayanmeldelse: “Postmarxisme eller diskursteori er de ord, Ernesto Laclau og Chantal Mouffe selv har hæftet på deres form for politisk teori og filosofi.”
Katalysator #5 – Chantal Mouffe og venstrepopulismen (Radioaktiv, januar 2019). “Janus Rønbach og Kristoffer Schønnemann Andersen diskuterer populismens væsen, med udgangspunkt i Chantal Mouffes nye bog For a Left Populisme.”
Tid til populisme på venstrefløjen? Af Simon Nyborg (Eftertryk, 10. oktober 2018). Anmeldelse af Chantal Mouffe: For a Left Populism: “… diskursteoriens Grand Old Lady, Chantal Mouffe, smider de akademiske gevandter og kommer med en utvetydig opfordring til at etablere en venstrepopulistisk front. Hvad er det lige, der sker for venstrefløjen?”
Politisk bevægelse i Europa og Mellemøsten (pdf). Af André Sonnichsen, Allan Dreyer Hansen & Carsten Jensen (Slagmark, nr.71, 2015, s.213-224). Interview med Chantal Mouffe, der fandt sted i hendes hjem i Hampstead, Nordlondon, primo 2012.
Gramsci, left populism and class struggle. By Rob Jackson (International Socialism, Issue 166, Spring 2020). “I will argue that Chantal Mouffe fetters her project to extend and radicalise democracy by diverging from Gramsci’s politics of socialism from below.”
For a left populism. By Josh Newman (Counterfire, January 17, 2019). Review of Chantal Mouffe’s book (Verso Books 2018, 93 p.). “Mouffe’s elaboration of a left populist strategy contains some useful insights but ultimately rests on the centrist ideology that it appears to criticise.” See also review by Anton Jäger: On the front lines of the Populism wars (Jacobin, 6 August 2018).
Is left populism a viable strategy? By Héctor Puente Sierra (Socialist Review, Issue 441, December 2018). “The renewed interest in this politics is shown by the recent publication of two books by Mouffe and by Laclau.”
17. april 2014
Den columbianske forfatter og Nobelprismodtager (i litteratur 1982). Gabriel José Garcia Márquez, dør i Mexico City, Mexico. (Født i Aracataca, Colombia, 6. marts 1927, se denne)
19. maj 2014
Den amerikanske progressive historiker Gabriel Kolko dør i Amsterdam, Holland. (Født i Peterson, New Jersey, 17. august 1932). Skrev om Roosevelt-tiden, Vietnamkrigen og især den kolde krig.
In memoriam, Gabriel Kolko. By Norman Pollack (CounterPunch, May 21, 2014). “… leaving behind a body of writings, unified in development as he peeled away layer after layer of American power, inequality, foreign aggression, and yes, idiocy as well as criminality and mendacity at the top.”
RIP Gabriel Kolko, a true free thinker. By Frank Furedi (Spiked, 20 May 2014). “He was a genuine radical whose work questioned both the prejudices inherent in conservative discourse as well as on the left. His scathing condemnation of American foreign policy, like his condemnation of the crudity of Maoist rhetoric, stand as a testimony to his intellectual and political integrity.”
Driving American decline. By G Francis Hodge (International Socialism, Issue 127, Summer 2010). Review of Gabriel Kolko, World in Crisis: The End of the American Century (Pluto, 2009). “There is much to like in this little book, and it provides an excellent primer for anyone who wishes to start looking more deeply into the contradictions of US capitalism.”
“After Socialism” – sad outcomes. By PHil Hearse (International Viewpoint, 21 April 2007). Review of Gabriel Kolko, After Socialism – Reconstructing Critical Social Thought (Routledge, 2006). “In a quite astonishingly embittered tirade Kolko, knowingly or otherwise, repeats some of the most exaggerated polemics made by right-wing critics of Marxism.”
Gabriel Kolko’s “After Socialism”. By Louis Proyect (The Unrepentant Marxist, December 25, 2006). “Like many critics of socialism in the academy, Kolko blames its failure on bad ideas.”
12. juni 2014
Start på VM i fodbold i Brasilien (afsluttes 13. juli).
Om de sociale, politiske og økonomiske forhold ifm. afholdelsen af VM.
Elsker fodbold – hader FIFA. Fotograf: Jesper Qvist. Fotoreportage fra “bold-manifestation” 27. juni 2014 ved den brasilianske ambassade.(Modkraft Foto)
VM-2014: ‘Alene i Rio de Janeiro er 100.000 beboere blevet tvangsforflyttet …’ (Autonom Infoservice, 6. juni 2014). Interview med Clara Hirt, aktivist i en lokal basiskomité i Rio de Janeiro.
Neoliberal games. By Mike Marqusee (International Socialist Review, Issue 93, Summer 2014). Review of Dave Zirin, Brazil’s Dance With the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy (Haymarket Books, 2014, 262 p.)
Resistance in Rio (RS21, June 23, 2014). “Ali Sargent, based in Brazil, looks at the background and character of the protests.”
Hybrid loyalties at the World Cup. By David McMurray (MERIP, June 15, 2014). “The World Cup stirs up nationalist fervor across the Mediterranean, but nowhere more so than in Algeria and France.”
Let them eat soccer. By Mike LaSusa (Jacobin, 13 June 2014). “Anti-World Cup protests rage in Brazil, but political struggle has long known the beautiful game.”
Stealing back the game (Weekly Worker, Issue 1014, 12 June 2014). “As the World Cup begins in earnest, Harley Filben examines the tense political background.”
Brazil: Who is the World Cup for? By Alex Minoru and Gabriel Pinho (In Defence of Marxism, 12 June 2014). “Highlights of the enormous social and class contradictions that have surfaced around the tournament.”
Who’s using the World Cup? By Dave Zirin (SocialistWorker.org, June 11, 2014). “Days before the World Cup begins, mass unrest is making Brazilian leaders worried.”
FIFA World Cup: Wave of protests and strikes unleashed in Brazil. By Farshad Azadian (In Defence of Marxism, 10 June 2014)
Striking on the eve of the Cup (SocialistWorker.org, June 5, 2014). “Dirceu Travesso, writing on behalf of the Brazilian labor federation Central Sindical e Popular-Conlutas, calls for international solidarity.”
Pelé said what? By Dave Zirin (The Nation, May 20, 2014). “Even the legend Pelé, often deferential to those in power, has criticized the World Cup.”
Se også på Socialistisk Bibliotek:
Tidslinjen: 1. juni 2013 om de omfattende demonstrationer og folkelige protester i Brasilien.
29. juni 2014
Den islamiske organisation ISIS ændrer sit navn og kalder sig Den Islamiske Stat (IS), tidligere Islamiske Stat i Irak og Levanten (ISIS/ISIL, Daesh), og opretter et sunni-islamisk kalifat i de kontrollerede områder af Irak og Syrien. IS angriber irakiske Kurdistan, og USA bomber IS-baser. ISIL/ISIS change its name to IS (Islamic State) to mark the founding of a sunne-islamic caliphat.
ISIS Islamic state Iraq Sham new map June 2014. Latest map (Source: LiveLeak)
Se også/See also the Timeline Tidslinjen 27. august 2014 længere nede for links om militær støtte til kurderne.
Splittelsen i global Jihad: Kampen mellem IS og al-Qaeda (pdf). Af Lars Erslev Andersen mfl. (DIIS – Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, august 2016, 178 s.). “Bogen har i alt 11 kapitler, som på forskellig vis belyser den globale jihadismes aktuelle splittelse.”
Portræt af et religiøst uhyre. Af Svend Vestergaard Jensen (Socialistisk Information, 7. maj 2016). Anmeldelse af Anne Alexander: Islamisk Stat – en militærstat i Mellemøsten (Forlaget Solidaritet, 2016, 104 s.)
Udfordringen fra IS. Af Michael Irwing Jensen (Information.dk, 7. maj 2016). Anmeldelse af Fawaz A. Gerges: ISIS – A History (Princeton University Press, 2016, 368 p.)
Bekæmpelse af Islamisk Stat er en grænseløs opgave. Af Svend Vestergaard Jensen (Modkraft.dk/Kontradoxa, 18. februar 2016). “Den islamiske fundamentalisme kan kun bekæmpes, hvis verdenssamfundet er villig til at gøre op med aggresssiv imperialisme …”
Hvad er forklaringen på jihadisternes ondskab? Af Kenan Malik (Information.dk, 28. november 2015). “Afkoblet fra de moralske rammer, der engang styrede antiimperialisterne, bebor islamistiske grupper i dag et alternativt moralsk univers.”
Terroranalytiker: Islamisk Stat kan ikke bekæmpes med bomber. Af Olympia Strunch (Modkraft.dk/Kontradoxa, 17. november 2015). Fra interview med Loretta Napoleoni, forfatter til Islamisk stat (Tiderne Skifter, 2015, 166 s.). Se også Ilyas Dogrus anmeldelse af Napoleonis bog: Kaos i Mellemøsten (pdf) (Det Ny Clarté, nr.30, september 2016, s.62-63). Scroll ned.
IS og jihad-manualen. Af Lasse Ellegaard (Information.dk, 16. november 2015). “Terrorangrebet i Paris ligger i forlængelse af IS’s strategi, som er nøje beskrevet i moderne jihad-teorier.”
Terror er også politik. Af Tobias Havmand (Information.dk, 11. juli 2015). Anmeldelse af Michael Weiss og Hassan Hassan: ISIS – Inside the Army of Terror (Reagan Arts, 2015, 270 p.)
Hvad ved vi egentlig om Islamisk Stat? Af Lasse Ellegaard (Information.dk, 24. juli 2015). Anmeldelse af Deniz B. Serenci: Terrorens kailfat: et indblik i Islamisk Stat (Frydenlund, 2015, 176 s.). Se også anmeldelse af Ilyas Dogru: Kaos i Mellemøsten (pdf) (Det Ny Clarté, nr.30, september 2016, s.62-63). Scroll ned.
Islamisk Stat var et forudsigeligt onde. Af Jason Burke (Information.dk, 21. marts 2015). Anmeldelse af Patrick Cockburn: The Rise of Islamic State: Isis and the New Sunni Revolution (Verso, 2015, 192 p.). Se også: Patrick Cockburn om IS/ISIS: Recensioner av Jihadisternas återkomst (pdf) (Marxistarkiv.se, 11.10.2015)
De nye mongoler (Information.dk, 7. februar 2015). Uddrag fra Loretta Napoleonis bog Islamisk Stat (Tiderne Skifter, 2015, 168 s.). Se anmeldelse af Charlotte Aagaard: Islamisk Stat er et moderne projekt (Information.dk, 13. februar 2015)
Islamisk Stat i Irak og Syrien: Kalifatets orden skaber kaos i den nye krig mod terror. Af Lars Erslev Andersen (DIIS Report, nr.28, december 2014, 51 sider)
Islamisterne kommer – igen. Af Michael Irving Jensen (Information.dk, 20. september 2014). Anmeldelse af Patrick Cockburn: The Jihadis Return: Isis and the New Sunni Uprising (OR Books, 2014, 150 p.). Se også Patrick Cockburn: Islamiska statens framväxt (pdf) (Marxistarkiv.se, 16. februar 2015)
Syrien brinner– två recensioner (pdf) (Marxistarkiv.se, 11.10.2014). “Om Aron Lunds viktiga och aktuella bok om upproret i Syrien.”
Konsolidering af kalifatet. Af Patrick Cockburn (Information.dk, 11. august 2014). Redigeret udgave af en artikel fra London Review of Books 1. august 2014.
Hur Isis blev den ångvält det är idag (pdf). Av Patrick Cockburn (Marxistarkiv.se, 22. august 2014). Utdrag från Patrick Cockburn, The Jihadis Return: Isis and the New Sunni Uprising (OR Books, 2014)
US vs Free Syrian Army vs Jabhat al-Nusra (and ISIS): History of a hidden three-way conflict (Marxist Left Review, No.14, Winter 2017). “Michael Karadjis answer the ‘comic-book view widely expressed in tabloid journals of the mainstream, left and right’, that alleges the Syrian rebellion against the dictatorship of Bashar Assad is a conspiracy of incompatible forces.”
Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East. By Sean Ledwith (Counterfire, June 30, 2016). Review of Patrick Cockburn, Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East (OR Books, 2016, 428 p.) + Michael Griffin, Islamic State: Rewriting History (Pluto Press, 2015, 176 p.)
How to understand ISIS. By Malise Ruthven (The New York Review of Books, Vol.63, No.11, June 23, 2016). Review of Fawaz A. Gerges, ISIS: A History (Princeton University Press, 2016, 368 p.)
Where does ISIS come from? By Miriam Scharf (International Socialism, Issue 151, Summer 2016, p.115-122). Review of Abdel Bari Atwan, Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate (Saqi, 2015, 256 p.)
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. By Chris Slee (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, May 4, 2016). Review of Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila al-Shami’s book (Pluto Press, 2016, 288 p.)
On failing to ‘get it together’: Syria’s opposition between idealism and realism. By Ali Nehmé Hamdan (Middle East Report, Issue 277, Winter 2015 – Kræver abonnement)
Three different takes on ISIS (pdf). By Gilbert Achcar (The Political Quarterly, Vol.87, No.1, January-March 2016). Review of books by Patrick Cockburn, Michael Weiss/Hassan Hassan and Jessica Stern/M. Berger.
On ISIS, by the editors + A Jihadism Anti-Primer, by Darryl Li (Middle East Report, Issue 276, Fall 2015). “What is ISIS, where does it come from and where is it going?”
A brief history of ISIS. By Adam Hanieh (Jacobin: Reason i Revolt, December 3, 2015). “”The real genesis of the Islamic State’s rise needs to be seen in the trajectory of the Arab uprisings.” Svensk udgave på Marxistarkiv.se: Kort historia om ISIS (pdf).
Response to Tariq Ali 2015, or the need for internationalist solidarity. By Joseph Daher (International Viewpoint, Issue 491, December 2015). “Tariq Ali spoke at a Stop the War rally in London … [and] propagating, again, conspiracy views and actually legitimizing Russian imperialist interventions in Syria.”
The 13 November attacks in Paris: the terror of the Islamic State, the state of emergency in France, our responsibilities. By François Sabado and Pierre Rousset (International Viewoint, Issue 490, November 2015). “The Islamic State and other similar movements do not just react; they act according to their own agenda.”
Islamic State. By Paddy Nielsen (Socialist Review, Issue 407, November 2015) Review of Michael Griffin, Islamic State: Rewriting History (Pluto Press, 2015, 136 p.)
Fascism and ISIS. By Anne Alexander and Haytham Cero (International Socialism, Issue 148, Autumn 2015, p.179-187)
ISIS and counter-revolution: towards a Marxist analysis. By Anne Alexander (International Socialism, Issue 145, Winter 2015, p.47-72)
Ethnic cleansing on a historic scale: Islamic State’s systematic targeting of minorities in Northern Iraq (Amnesty International, September 2014, 24 p.)
The origins of “Islamic State”. By Stephen Wood (Solidarity, Issue 337, 24 September 2014). “Some on the left suggest that ISIS are solely a product of the US …”
Isis consolidates. By Patrick Cockburn (London Review of Books, Vol.36, No.16, 21 August 2014). The article is from August 1, 2014.
Retribution in Iraq. By Jack Farmer (RS21, July 4, 2014). On the emergence of ISIS from the disastrous US occupation.
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The Kurdish crisis in Iraq and Syria. By Joseph Daher (Against the Current, Issue 192, January-February 2018). “This means also supporting the right to self-determination of the Kurdish populations throughout the region.”
Camp Total Protest oprettes, en protestlejr imod prøveboringer efter skifergas i landsbyen Dybvad i Nordjylland, og en blokade af det franske energiselskab Total. 17. august 2015 beslutter Total at lukke skifergasboringen i Dybvad permanent.
Skifergasblokaden ved Dybvad, 2015 (Foto: Laura Na Blankholm/Monsun)
Civil ulydighed: Blokaden mod skifergas. Af Ebbe Rand Jørgensen (Socialistisk Information, 19.04.2015). “SI har fanget en af aktivisterne på mobilen sent søndag eftermiddag.”
Skifergas – en skamplet for hele Danmark. Af Jens Voldby Crumlin (Modkraft.dk, 30. juni 2014). “Kampen mod skifergas er ikke kun en kamp mod sort energi og ødelæggelse af miljøet, det er en kamp for at genvinde vores demokratiske kontrol med Danmarks energipolitik.”
I byen Ferguson (Missouri, USA) bliver 18-årige Michael Brown dræbt af politibetjenten Darren Wilson. Drabet førte til omfattende protester, og yderligere politibrutalitet over for protesterne. #BlackLivesMatter gik fra sociale medier til at være en bevægelse på gaden og med lokalafdelinger.
Senere på året, 24. november 2014, afgjorde en storjury, at der ikke var grundlag for at rejse tiltale mod den politimand, der skød Michael Brown. Afgørelsen gav anledning til utilfredshed, og der udbrød atter protester.
25. maj 2020 dræbes George Floyd under en anholdelse i Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA).
Hvad betyder sorte liv? (Baggrund, 23. september 2016). “Mikkel Flohr og Yannick Harrison ser nærmere på Black Lives Matter for at forstå, hvad sorte liv betyder i dag.” Også online på Modkraft.dk (28. september 2016)
Det kunne ha hendt hvor som helst (Rødt!: Marxistisk Tidsskrift, nr.2, 2015, s.82-89). “… sier Jamala Rogers i et intervju Freedom Road har laget for Rødt.”
Black Lives Matter er hverdagsmodstand. By Miriam Haile & Adelina Kiame (Friktion: Magasin for Køn, Krop og Kultur, nr.10, oktober 2016). Text in English. Some comments on photographs in Danish.
Black Lives Matter (site). “The Black Lives Mater network advocates for dignity, justice, and respekct. (Who We are – What We Believe – Recent Statements – Tweets – Principles – etc.)
More than a moment: what did Black Lives Matter achieve? By Nadia Sayed (International Socialism, Issue 175, Summer 2022). “This article seeks to defend the movement’s achievements while also considering some of its weaknesses and tensions.”
Five years later, do Black Lives Matter? By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Jacobin, 30 September 2019). “Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.”
The Panthers can’t save us now. By Cedric Johnson (Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, Vol.1, No.1, Spring 2017, p.56-85). “This essay is written against the prevailing Black Power nostalgia that informs contemporary struggles against police violence.”
The trouble with anti-antiracism. By Paul Heideman & Jonah Birch (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 11 October 2016). “Movements targeting racial disparities aren’t distracting attention from class inequality …”
Black Lives Matter. By Brian Richardson (Socialist Review, Issue 417, October 2016). “The rise of Black Lives Matter in the US marks an end to the Civil Rights movement’s claim that black people in high places could be the solution for all.”
BLM movement grows stronger. By Malik Miah (Against the Current, Issue 184, September-October 2016). “The power of the movement is its breadth and the role of dynamic women and men in leadership.”
What does Black Lives Matter want? By Robin D. G. Kelley (Boston Review, August 17, 2016). About the document, A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom & Justice: “It is a remarkable blueprint for social transformation that ought to be read and discussed by everyone.”
Black Lives Matter and the struggle for freedom. By Brian P. Jones (Monthly Review, Vol.68, No.4, September 2016). “This article is a discussion of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket, 2016)
Black awakening in Obama’s America. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (International Socialist Review, Issue 100, Spring 2016). Introduction to Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor’s book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2016, 300 p.). See review by Haley Pessin: Exploding the post-racial myth (ibid., Issue 101, Summer 2016)
Black Lives Matter: A new movement takes shape. By Khury Petersen-Smith (International Socialist Review, Issue 96, Spring 2015). “The sheer breadth of the movement is another indicator of its power and the chord that it has struck.”
The rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement (SocialistWorker.org, January 13, 2015). “Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor explains the background for this upsurge and analyzes the movement …”
My city stands with Mike Brown (SocialistWorker.org, December 1, 2014). “… rounds up reports of protests around the U.S. after the decision of a St. Louis County grand jury not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.”
Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race. Part 1-3. By Benjamin Mateus (World Socialist Web Site, 20-22 December 2018). “This study reviews all the data available on police shootings for the year 2017 … It identifies a major omission in all the published accounts: the vast and rising death toll among working-class white men in rural and small-town America …”
Emnebox: Slaveri / Slavery (Socialistisk Bibliotek). Samling af emnelister, linkboxe, personlister, tidslinje mm. på Socialistisk Bibliotek.
B 122: Forslag til folketingsbeslutning om dansk militært bidrag til støtte for indsatsen i Irak (Folketinget.dk, 27. august 2014) + Nikolaj Villumsens (EL) ordførertale + Betænkningsafgivelse for Enhedslisten til B 122.
Støt kurdernes kamp: No Parasan. Af SAP’s Forretningsudvalg (Socialistisk Information, 3.10.2014)
Muslimer siger fra: Er Islamisk Stat lig med islam? Af Svend Vestergaard Jensen (Socialistisk Information, 3.10.2014)
Våbentransporter: Enhedslisten kan ikke bortforklare tvetydighederne. Af Niels H. Nielsen, Jan Helbak, Jan Mølgård og Niels Frölich (Modkraft.dk, 18. september 2014)
Våbentransport til Nordirak: Der er et regulært dilemma. Af Peder Hvelplund (Modkraft.dk, 15. september 2014)
The Rojava Report: News from the Revolution in Rojava and Wider Kurdistan.
Min løsning for Tyrkiet, Syrien og kurderne. Af Abdullah Öcalan (Solidaritet.dk, 10. august 2020). “I mere end to årtier har Abdullah Öcalan siddet indespærret på fængelsøen Imrali. Den politiske fange kommer her med sit bud på en ‘demokratisk nation’ som kan samle borgere på tværs af etnicitet og kulturelle traditioner.”
Tiden er kommet. Af Søren Berggreen Toft og Mads Staghøj (Information.dk, 28. marts 2015). Longread (4 kapitler): “Da Kobane blev belejret af Islamisk Stat, rejste kurdere i Danmark og Europa sig og samledes om kærligheden til den fængslede leder Abdullah Öcalan.” Kræver abonnement.
Kobane holder stadig stand. Af Joakim Medin (Information.dk, 6. januar 2015). “Information har besøgt den krigshærgede by og dens socialistisk inspirerede modstandsbevægelse.”
Kobane, kurdernes kamp og farerne i horisonten. Af Jelle Bruinsma (Modkraft.dk/Kontradoxa, 28. oktober 2014). Oversat fra Roar Magazine: “Efter Islamisk Stat er blevet drevet ud af Kobanê, lurer faren for, at USA udøver imperiale særrettigheder og truer kurdiske ambitioner om demokratisk autonomi.”
Kurdere gribes af håb og fortvivlelse, mens Kobane fortsat yder modstand (Modkraft.dk/Kontradoxa, 16. oktober 2014). Oversat fra Roar Magazine: “Iskender Doğu rapporterer fra Kurdistan, mens kampfly flyver over hovedet og der er voldsomme sammenstød mellem tyrkisk politi og kurdiske demonstranter.”
En stemme fra Kobane: interview med en kurdisk fighter (Autonom Infoservice, 8. oktober 2014). “I et telefon-interview fortæller Asia Abdullah om den dramatiske situation i den hårdt omkæmpede kurdiske enklave Kobanê.”
The Kurdish freedom movement, Rojava and the Left (Middle East Report Online, July 21, 2020). “Efforts by the Kurds to put revolutionary ideals into practice in Rojava captured the imagination of anarchists and leftists in Europe and North America. Thomas Jeffrey Miley explains the left’s fascination with Rojava, the ties of solidarity that connect the Kurdish freedom movement to Europe, Öcalan’s embrace of a new paradigm of struggle and the dilemmas facing Rojava now.”
Portraits of the Kurdish struggle (Jacobin, August 22, 2019). In interview with Joey Lawrence: “A new collection of photography captures the Kurdish struggle against ISIS — and their efforts to build a radically egalitarian society based on principles of peace and democracy.”
Rojava is under existential threat. By Rosa Burc Fouad Oveisy (Jacobin, February 22, 2019). “Rojava, the site of a remarkable peoples’ revolution, is on the brink of colonization and extermination. The international left must stand against it.”
Examing the revolution in Rojava. By Emma Wilde Botta (International Socialist Review, Issue 108, Spring 2018). Review of Michael Knapp, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga, Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan (Pluto Press, 2016, 272 p.): “… one of the first full-length books to address the emergence of Rojava, an autonomous region in northern Syria that has been heralded by many as a socialist and feminist model for social change.”
The AKP, the Kurds and the siege of Kobane. By Uraz Aydin (International Viewpoint, Issue 480, January 2015). “There is an urgent need for the revolutionary left, despite its weakness, to give its full support to the struggle of the Kurdish people whatever the criticisms of its leadership.”
The false friends of Kobane. By Errol Babacan and Murat Cakir (Jacobin, January 6, 2015). “The significance of the struggle in Kobanê cannot be overstated. But real international solidarity won’t come in the form of military intervention.”
The results of the Kobane war; so far. By Amed Dicle (International Viewpoint, Issue 477, October 2014). “However, Kobane never fell; it resisted, and is still resisting. This resistance is now the main agenda of not only the Kurds and the Middle East, but the whole world.”
Kobane, the Kurds and the Syrian revolution (SocialistWorker.org, October 15, 2014). Svensk udgave på Marxistarkiv.se (pdf). “Joseph Daher analyzes the forces at play in this article for his blog Syria Freedom Forever and makes the case that the Kurdish struggle for self-determination and the Syrian revolution against the Assad dictatorship share a common destiny.”
Behind the Kobane tragedy: The Kurdish political movement and Turkey. By Özlem İlyas Tolunay (New Politics, October 14, 2014). “The Kurdish political movement is not monolithic. There are moderate Islamists, leftist and nationalists in it and this reality has a significant effect on their policies.”
Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria? By David Graeber (The Guardian, October 8, 2014). “Amid the Syrian warzone a democratic experiment is being stamped into the ground by Isis. That the wider world is unaware is a scandal.”
Kurdistan: the battle for Kobane. By Serge Jordan (Socialist Alternative, October 3, 2014). “Regional war poses new challenges for struggle for Kurdish self-determination.”
Se også:
The elusive quest for a Kurdish State (MERIP, July 14, 2020). “Kurdish communities in the Middle East have been struggling for independence, autonomy and civil rights since at least the 1880s … Djene Rhys Bajalan explains the many challenges, both historically and in the present day.”
The Kurds — a history of agony (Socialist Worker, Issue 2677, 20 October 2919). “As the Kurds once again find themselves under attack and under pressure from imperial powers Nick Clark looks at a history of oppression, betrayal and resistance.”
The Kurdish crisis in Iraq and Syria. By Joseph Daher (Against the Current, Issue 192, January-February 2018). “This means also supporting the right to self-determination of the Kurdish populations throughout the region.”
The New-Old PKK. By Alex de Jong (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, March 18, 2016). “The PKK has continued to struggle for justice in Kurdistan. But its democratic transformation leaves much to be desired.”
Stalinist caterpillar into libertarian butterfly? – the evolving ideology of the PKK. By Alex de Jong (International Viewpoint, 11 March 2015). “The focus is on the movement’s ’official’ ideology as written down in statements of Öcalan and documents of the PKK.”
The People’s Climate March: Looking back at September 21st. By Dianne Feeley (Solidarity, October 22, 2014)
Against the climate march cynics (SocialistWorker.org, September 25, 2014). “Paul D’Amato answers the objections of several left-wing writers who critiqued the People’s Climate March.”
Dagen efter, den 22. september, afholdes #FloodWallStreet, der samles om, at kapitalismen er den egentlige årsag til klimakrisen.
Se også:
#FloodWallStreet: Stop Capitalism. End the Climate Crisis (site)
Her anholdes en isbjørn den 22. september på Wall Street til Flood Wall Street (NB det er altså en demonstrant i isbjørne-kostume)
22. september 2014
Den såkaldte Paraply-revolution i Hongkong starter, da studenterforeninger begynder demonstrationer og besættelse af bymidte ved lokalregeringens bygning i protest mod den kinesiske centralregerings direktiv om bl.a. forhåndsgodkendelse af kandidater til valg.
Betegnelsen skyldes demonstranternes brug af paraplyer mod politiets peberspray. 9. juni 2019 udbryder der store demonstrationer ifm. en såkaldt udleveringslov (til Kina/fastlandet), Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (ELAB) Movement.
Danske links:
Hong Kong – en ny fagbevægelse. Af Anita Chan (Socialistisk Information, 14. august 2020). “Faglige ildsjæle startede som en del af pro-demokratibevægelsen, men er nu også begyndt at stille krav om arbejdsforhold, løn, bonusser og beskæftigelsespolitik med henblik på at sikre sig en stemme i byens fejlbehæftede politiske system.”
Den internationale venstrefløj må hjælpe folket i Hong Kong. Af Fjerde Internationale (Socialistisk Information, 31. oktober 2019). “Det er den første bevægelse i en del af Kina, som både er stor, radikal og oprørsk, så kraftfuld at den fik en regering støttet af Kina til at slå bak.”
Oprøret i Hong Kong (Kritisk Debat, oktober 2019). “Vi har valgt her at præsentere et kollektiv [Lausan], som ud fra et venstreorienteret perspektiv og med baggrund i deres personlige tilknytning til Hong Kong arbejder for at producere egne analyser og formidle oversættelser af andre venstreorienteredes bud på udviklingen i Hong Kong, og de perspektiver, oprøret i Hong Kong kan udgøre for den internationale venstrefløj.”
Fire pointer om protesterne i Hong Kong. Af Kevin Lin (Socialistisk Information, 16. september 2019). “Protesterne i Hong Kong har nået et nyt krampagtigt højdepunkt. New York Times kunne rapportere om demonstrationerne 31. august, at man så ‘de mest intense sammenstød siden protesterne om byens skæbne startede i juni’.”
Kina: Masseprotesterne i Hong Kong fortsætter. Af Johnna Mortensen (Konfront.dk, 13. august 2019). “I de sidste par måneder har Hong Kong været ramt af massedemon-strationer i protest imod et lovforslag som kunne betyde udlevering af fanger til fastlands-Kina. Selv om lovforslaget hurtigt blev taget af bordet igen, fortsatte protesterne.”
Fordøm volden: Støt Hong Kong-borgernes kamp for frie valg (Socialistisk Information, 5.10.2014). Udtalelse fra venstrefløjsbevægelsen Left21 i Hong Kong.
Interview: after the Hong Kong rebellion (International Socialism, Issue 173, Winter 2022). “Lam Chi Leung, a socialist activist based in the region, spoke to International Socialism about the struggle, its roots in earlier social movements and what has happened since.”
Lausan: Sharing decolonial left perspectives on Hong Kong (Lausan.hk). “Through translation, creation, and education, Lausan aims to build solidarity on the international left with Hong Kongers’ unfinished fight to imagine emancipatory futures after colonialism, against both Chinese and Western imperialism.” Se også om Lausan: Oprøret i Hong Kong (Kritisk Debat, oktober 2019).
Lessons of Hong Kong resistance (Socialist Worker, Issue 2763, 11 July 2021). “It has been one year since the repressive Security Law was enacted in Hong Kong. Lam Chi Leung, an activist based in Hong Kong, explains how the situation has changed.”
Hong Kong in Revolt. By Simon Gilbert (Socialist Review, Issue 462, November 2020). Review of Au Loong-Yu, Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China (Pluto Press, 2020, 224 p.). “Hong Kong in Revolt gives us an indispensable analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the 2019 movement, and in broad brushstrokes offers a way forward for the struggle.” See also review by Dennis Kosuth: Hong Kong’s fight for democracy (New Politics, December 19, 2020) + review by Promise Li: Hong Kong: An uprising and its fate (Against the Current, Issue 210, 2021)
The death of Hong Kong’s autonomy: beyond the crackdown. By Ashley Smith (Spectre, June 6, 2020). “Ashley Smith interviews Au Loong Yu about China’s crackdown and what it means for the pro-democracy movement.”
Neither Washington nor Beijing – A backgrounder. By Au Loong Yu (New Politics, Blog, February 17, 2020). “The two sides mirror each other in terms of their argument. The real picture is actually much more complicated.”
Where things stand in Hong Kong. By Valentina Pegolo (Jacobin, Oktober 4, 2019). “Why is Beijing so worried about the Hong Kong protests? Because they know that the movement, now in its twentieth week, could become a symbol of democratic resistance that all disenfranchised people in the region could rally behind.”
Hong Kong: Tactics are up for debate (Socialist Review, Issue 450, October 2019). “Last month we spoke to Hong Kong revolutionary socialist Lam Chi Leung about the mass movement. Following events in the past month, as well as reponses from readers, we caught up with him again.”
Three months of insurrection (Chuangcn.org, Blog, September 27, 2019). An Anarchist collective in Hong Kong appraises the achievements and limits of the Revolt.
Hong Kong: ‘No progress without real system change’ (Socialist Review, Issue 449, September 2019). “We asked local activist Lam Chi Leung about the character of the protesters and how their demands are developing.”
‘A new generation rises’: eyewitness to Hong Kong revolt (Red Flag, 21 August 2019). “The following is an edited transcript of a speech given by Hong Kong socialist Au Loong Yu, via video link, at Perth’s annual Socialism conference on 18 August.”
The rebellion in Hong Kong is intensifying (Jacobin, 1 August 2019). An interview with Au Loong Yu: “Massive demonstrations in Hong Kong have forced the government to shelve a bill that could muzzle dissident voices. But the protesters are still on the streets — and they’re demanding the resignation of Hong Kong’s chief executive.”
Hong Kong’s protests in perspective (Socialist Review, Issue 448, July-August 2019). “John Smith puts the Hong Kong protests of recent weeks into the broader contexts of Hong Kong’s development over the past few decades, its growing connections with the hugely important Pearl River Delta area and the growth of an increasingly aware, organised and militant Chinese working class.”
“Hong Kong’s last battle”. By JS Chen and Sherry Yuen-Yung Chan (Jacobin, 23 June 2019). “Protesters in Hong Kong are still clogging the streets en masse. Their task: to face down not just the authoritarianism of the Chinese Communist Party but the self-dealing of Hong Kong capitalists.”
Everything you need to know about the Hong Kong protests (Jacobin, 18 June 2019). An interview with Au Loong Yu and others: “Hong Kong’s government tried to rush through a bill that would limit civil liberties. Instead they triggered a tidal wave of protests — some of the largest in modern history.”
Citizens and socialists in Hong Kong (Socialist Review, Issue 492, May 2015). “Interview with Hong Kong-based socialist Au Loong Yu about the dangers and opportunities that have emerged from Occupy Central.”
Scholarism on the march (New Left Review, Issue 92, March-April 2015). “Interview with Joshua Wong, leader of Hong Kong’s radical school students.”
Hong Kong: Statement from four organizations calling for a tactical retreat and a report (New Politics, October 4, 2014)
Black vs yellow: class antagonism and Hong Kong’s umbrella movement (Libcom.org, 3 October 2014). “Best English article so far on Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution’ and its background, limitations, and prospects from a Marxist perspective, based on first-hand research.”
Occupy Central: What’s next for the Hong-Kong democracy movement? A brief observation on the current movement. By Au Loong Yu (New Politics, October 1, 2014)
Hong Kong: Massive anti-government protests after attempted police crackdown. By Vincent Kolo (Chinaworker.info, October 1, 2014)
Anger boils over in Mexico. Héctor A. Rivera reports from Mexico City as demonstrations escalate .. (Socialist Worker.org,, november 12, 2014
10. oktober 2014
Den 17-årige pakistanske skolepige Malala Yousafzai bliver tildelt Nobels fredspris for sin kamp for pigers ret til uddannelse.
9. oktober 2012 blev Yousafzai skudt i hovedet, da hun var på vej hjem med skolebussen, ved et attentat begået af Taliban, og har siden kæmpet for børns og pigers rettigheder.
En aktivist er gået bort! Af Svend Vestergaard Jensen (Modkraft.dk/Kontradoxa, 31. oktober 2014). “Den 28. oktober døde socialisten og trotskisten Poul Møller efter et langt liv som politisk aktivist, kun få dage efter sin 85 års fødselsdag.”
Poul Møller 1929-2014: En aktivist er gået bort!: Fotoserie om/med Poul Møller. Af Wilfred Gluud (Gluud-net). Med links og billeder fra Poul Møllers bisættelse og div. fødselsdage og omtaler/interview.
Solidaritet: Aktivisten Poul Møller – nu hædret med både medalje og orden. Af Tue Magnussen (Socialistisk Infomation, 9. december 2012). “… Poul Møller hædret for sin indsats i abejdet til befrielsen af Algeriet fra den franske kolonialisme …”
Fødselsdag: En aktivist runder de 80. Af Svend Vestergaard Jensen (Socialistisk Information, 27. september 2009; online på Gluud.net). Interview om Poul Møllers politiske liv og udvikling. Afsluttes med note: “Fødselaren frabeder sig udtrykkeligt personlige gaver, men opfordrer til, at man i stedet giver et beløb til en ubeskåret og ubetinget indsamling til PFLP – som et bidrag til palæstinensernes frihedskamp og til kampen mod terrorlovene!”
Medaljer hænger man på… terrorister? Af Linda Hansen (Modkraft.dk, 12. maj 2005). Om solidaritetsarbejdet med Algeriets frihedskamp og Poul Møllers indsats + om kampen mod terrorlovene!
Se også:
Den trotskistiske forbindelse. Af Lars Borking (Modkraft.dk/Kontradoxa, 5. juli 2012). Uddrag af bogen Kampen om Algeriet: den skandinaviske støtte 1954-1962 (Dansk–Algerisk Venskabsforening, 2012)
”Et undertrykt folk har altid ret”: Solidaritet med den 3. verden i 1960’ernes og 1970’ernes Danmark (pdf). Af Karen Steller Bjerregaard (Ph.d.-afhandling, Institut for kultur og identitet, Afdeling for historie, RUC 2010, 499 sider). Om Algiersolidariteten, se især side 99-141.
Opstanden begynder i den vestafrikanske stat Burkina Faso som svar på præsident Blaise Compaorés forsøg på forfatningsændring. Protesterne gennemtvinger præsidentens afgang.
New broom in Burkina Faso? (New Left Review, Issue 101, September-October 2016, p.93-119). “Alexandra Reza places Compaoré’s regime and its ouster in a historical context of dictatorship and dependency that has been repeatedly challenged by popular mobilization.”
What’s next in Burkina Faso? (Socialistworker.org, November 6, 2014). “Andy Wynne explains the background to the mass protests in the West African country.”
Tidslinjen: 15. oktober 1987 om Thomas Sankara, præsident og revolutionær pan-afrikaner.
2. november 2014
FNs Klimapanel (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)) udgiver efter møde i København (27.-31. oktober) den fjerde og sidste del af 5. vurderingsrapport (AR5) om klimaforandringerne.
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