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Feb
22
2012

Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, editors, Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent. Special issue of SOCIALDIFFERENCE-ONLINE (December 2011).

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  • [SOCIALDIFFERENCE-ONLINE is a publication of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference at Columbia University, an advanced study center that promotes innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the role of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in global dynamics of power and inequality.]
Jan
26
2012

Writer and activist Ahdaf Soueif has reported from the front line of the Egyptian Revolution from the 18 days that brought down dictator Hosni Mubarak to today.

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Jan
13
2012

Events, like Occupy Wall Street, are crucial because, on the one hand, they demonstrate that the problem is capitalism as such. This was the big issue in the 20th century, but somehow disappeared in the last decades from the traditional left, where the focus became specific issues such as racism and sexism.

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Dec
4
2011

Shift magazine interview John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism and Change the World Without Taking Power on the UK riots, anti-austerity stuggles, the Arab spring and more.

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Nov
4
2011

A 1976 interview with Noam Chomsky in which he discusses anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism and council communism as well as the possibility of a free society.

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Oct
29
2011

The philosopher discusses the momentous changes taking place in the global financial and political system.

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  • From the Middle East to the streets of London and cities across the US there is a discontent with the status quo. Whether it is with the iron grip of entrenched governments or the widening economic divide between the rich and those struggling to get by. But where are those so hungry for change heading? How profound is their long-term vision to transform society?
Oct
6
2011

"During a visit to Oslo Noam Chomsky gave a 70 minute video interview with our Anarkismo sister group, Counterpower. Chomsky says the most important task is the creation of Libertarian Socialist organisations and that if we keep the current system we are doomed. "

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Sep
5
2011

"Arundhati Roy is probably the most ‘do something’ public intellectual of our time. In her interview with New Internationalist she offers her take on market-friendly democracy, people power and the wealth that is fed by people’s lives. "

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Sep
2
2011

"both anarchism and sociology are very interested in this thing called “society”. That itself is impressive, given how hard it is to often even think about something as complex and abstract as society. Both also agree that societies affect individuals."

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Jun
24
2011

How Do You Finance Social Justice in Egypt? Jadaliyya Interview With Wael Gamal. This is our third interview conducted in Cairo by Jadaliyya Co-Editors Bassam Haddad and Ziad Abu Rish.

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Jun
17
2011

In the past thirty years there has been enormous concentration of wealth in a very tiny part of the population. Noam Chomsky talks about how to fight back.

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Jun
13
2011

We discussed the overarching question of "social justice" after the revolution. In particular, how do you finance social justice in a country like Egypt?

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Mar
28
2011

"قال الدكتور محمد بديع، المرشد العام لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين، أن الجماعة لن يكون لها «سلطان» على الحزب المقرر إنشاؤه «العدالة والحرية»، مشيراً إلى برنامج الحزب سيعلن خلال أيام وسيختلف عن البرنامج الذي كان وأعلن عنه منذ سنوات."

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Jan
9
2011

Foreign intervention is Haiti is as problematic as ever. Interviewed by the Swiss daily Le Temps, Brazilian diplomat Ricardo Seitenfus said as much. When the interview was published on December 20, the Organization of American States fired him as its representative in Haiti.

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Dec
31
2010

Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, came out swinging against some high-level Arab officials in an interview with the pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera this week, saying they maintain close ties with the CIA and are spies for the U.S. intelligence agency in their respective countries. 

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Dec
1
2010

It seems safe to say that no living intellectual has enraged more people with more predictable regularity than Noam Chomsky.

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May
27
2010

"Venezuelan Socialist United Party (PSUV) members Katy Jaimes and Elias Chacon are currently touring Britain to build solidarity with the Bolivarian revolution and the movement of occupied factories in Venezuela."

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  • A recent PSUV congress saw delegates commit to the principle that socialism is not just a set of social reforms but a "fundamental transformation of society."
Mar
26
2010

وصف الدكتور محمد البرادعى الدستور المصرى الذى يحرم ٩٩٪ من الشعب من حقه فى الترشح لرئاسة الجمهورية بأنه دستور غير شرعى، وأضاف فى حوار مع قناة «العربية» أن هناك نحو ٤ أو ٥ ملايين مصرى بالخارج محرومون من التصويت.

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