It is not our desire to participate in violence, but it is even less our desire to lose. (Letter of Solidarity From Cairo)
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/10/letter-of-solidarity-from-cairo.html
To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it’s our turn to pass on some advice.
;-)
Indeed, we are now in many ways involved in the same struggle. What most pundits call “The Arab Spring” has its roots in the demonstrations, riots, strikes and occupations taking place all around the world, its foundations lie in yearslong struggles by people and popular movements. The moment that we find ourselves in is nothing new, as we in Egypt and others have been fighting against systems of repression, disenfranchisement and the unchecked ravages of global capitalism (yes, we said it, capitalism): a System that has made a world that is dangerous and cruel to its inhabitants. As the interests of government increasingly cater to the interests and comforts of private, transnational capital, our cities and homes have become progressively more abstract and violent places, subject to the casual ravages of the next economic development or urban renewal scheme.
Coda to an open letter
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/coda-to-open-letter.html
Three follow-up comments on the London riots, drawn in part from astute comments from friends and strangers.
Une suite donc du texte très intéressant d’Evan Calder Williams : ►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html
Nouvelle une : retour sur les émeutes anglaises avec une « Lettre ouverte à ceux qui condamnent le pillage » signée Evan Calder Williams
►https://www.lereveil.ch/no13-octobre-2011
« Tel que lorsque vous penchez vers la contrefactualité (comme beaucoup de ceux qui condamnent et qui se trouvent légèrement à gauche du centre le font) et dites, bon, mais, ce serait différent s’ils ne prenaient que de la nourriture, des couches, des médicaments, vous savez, les choses dont on a vraiment besoin pour s’en sortir, ce qui est en train de se dire est qu’ils ne devraient voler que des biens d’une qualité équivalente à leur niveau de vie. Les pauvres, qui n’ont pas un niveau de vie très élevé, devraient avoir des biens dont le standard n’est pas très élevé. Ils ne devraient pas prendre des cigarettes industrielles. Ils ne devraient pas prendre du champagne, ou du moins pas le bon et seulement pour les grandes occasions. Ils ne devraient pas prendre de grandes télévisions. Car ils ne méritent pas ces choses. Et ils devraient le savoir. »
#UKriots
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn_10.html
An open letter to those who condemn looting - part two (Relevé sur le Net...)
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn_10.html
Do you really expect people to riot immaterially? You expect them to loot only what they could afford?
An open letter to those who condemn looting (Socialism and/or barbarism)
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html
Juvenile, destructive, unreasonable, and naive come to mind, if your previous history of accusations gives any indication.
An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part one)
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html
I expect you would say the same about our position, albeit with a different set of adjectives. Juvenile, destructive, unreasonable, and naive come to mind, if your previous history of accusations gives any indication. Unfortunately, given the structure of the media and the flow of information, we cannot but hear what you say while you can very easily continue to ignore what we do. Until lots of angry people are burning your city, at which point you might, in a fit of weakness, concede to listen to those who have some opinions on the matter. Unlikely, though.
pour @supergeante #london
et la suite ►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn_10.html
you are not condemning those who loot because they loot. You have condemned them long before, condemned them to irrelevance and death. The fact that they loot just gives you some ammo in your long war of exclusion and denigration
Une critique (méchante) du “#film” Transformers 3 - 2011
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/07/other-than-all-that-notes-on.html
Socialism and/or barbarism: Other than all that (Notes on Transformers 3)
this is a film that lays more waste to content represented on the screen, in its richly-grained detail and yet which, in the process of its production, destroyed almost nothing in reality. Laid no waste to cities, sent rockets into no shopping malls.
Consumed nothing, that is, other than literal tons of coal required to power the CGI data processing, other than rare earths frying out from overload, other than little salmon, truffle oil, and pomegranate reduction mini-tarts for the cast, other than an extra permanently brain damaged from a rare piece of real metal, other than nerve endings and synaptic pathways burnt out, other than time itself, other than this time, writing these words, on something that is both as telling of our time as can be and as utterly indifferent to it, other than massive sums of money dematerialized and sunk into the faint shimmer of dust rising from the shuddering body of a robot rendered from scratch
L’Inde enserre le Bangladesh d’une barrière de 4000km de barbelés ; un projet de presque 1 milliards d’euros (dont combien pour la corruption ?) — quelques liens
Bangladesh, Inde : Droits humains et tragédies de la frontière (Global Voices)
►http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/2011/01/26/54614
Les Bangladais ont été choqués par les photos largement publiées du corps sans vie d’une jeune Bangladaise de 15 ans accroché à la clôture de la frontière entre l’Inde et le Bangladesh.
Fencing off Bangladesh, by Delwar Hussain (The Guardian)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/05/bangladesh-india-border-fence
India’s 2500-mile border fence is meant to keep out smugglers. But simply living on the boundary is a dangerous business
In the last six months, more than 50 people have been killed alongside the 2,500-mile barbed wire fence that India is building around its neighbour, Bangladesh. Such incidents are increasing in what is becoming one of the most volatile border areas in the world.
Between 2000 and 2007, more than 700 Bangladeshis and an unknown number of Indians were killed next to the boundaries of the two states. Most deaths occurred at the hands of the Border Security Force (BSF), the Indian border guard corps.
The eight-foot high barbed wire fencing cuts villages in two and divides agricultural lands and markets. It separates families and communities, cutting across mangrove swamps, forests and mountains. When completed next year, the fence will be a huge feat of Indian engineering: longer than the US/Mexico border fence, the Israel/Palestine wall and the old Berlin Wall put together.
India builds a 2,500-mile barrier to rival the Great Wall of China (Times Online)
►http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article782933.ece
India plans to fence off this area of West Bengal as part of a little-known £600 million project to erect a steel barrier right along its 2,500-mile border with its much smaller Muslim neighbour.
The Chinese Wall Around Bangladesh (Forbes India)
The time is ripe for India to break down barriers and win over its neighbour
►http://business.in.com/article/foreign-office/the-chinese-wall-around-bangladesh/1092/1
Women Deployed to India’s Wall of Death (NY Times)
►http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/women-deployed-to-indias-wall-of-death
Last Saturday, after 36 weeks of training, 178 women became the first female members of India’s Border Security Force.
I don’t know if that’s optimism (Socialism and/or barbarism)
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-dont-know-if-thats-optimism.html :
They know that 100 million people are going to try to get into India just to live because of floods due to global warming and rising sea levels. So they are preparing to kill 100 million people. The American government is preparing militarily to prevent Mexicans from storming into the United States, as people starve in Mexico. So this is what the future holds. The existing situation is poised on an edge of catastrophe, which might take fifty years to unfold. At some point, people will have to deal with it.
The Great Wall of India, by Bidisha Banerjee (Slate)
►http://www.slate.com/id/2276362
India is fencing off its border with Bangladesh. What will that mean for millions of potential climate refugees?
BSF to be asked to stop killing (The Daily Star)
►http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=96692
Inde / Bangladesh : des barbelés sur la rizière, par Sara Daniel (Le Nouvel Observateur)
►http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/article/20091110.OBS7418/inde-bangladesh-des-barbeles-sur-la-riziere.html
Pour enrayer l’immigration clandestine, accusée de menacer l’économie locale et de propager le terrorisme, l’Inde a choisi de barricader sa frontière avec le Bangladesh.
Des fils barbelés séparent désormais l’Inde du Bangladesh (TRT ?)
►http://www.trtfrench.com/trtworld/fr/newsDetail.aspx?HaberKodu=4cc4502e-9a77-4317-b832-652319466b7c
c’est le plus long mur du monde paraît-il ; et le tracé de la frontière est une sorte de nirvana cartographique
►http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fronti%C3%A8re_entre_le_Bangladesh_et_l%27Inde
Je viens de quasiment passer 4 jours off line et là, je regrette tout de suite d’être rentrée...
The Economist dit que ça va un peu mieux entre les deux voisins ; l’Inde aurait accepté de ne plus « shoot to kill » à la frontière ►http://www.economist.com/node/21524917
Socialism and/or barbarism: Revolutionary Body Mass Index
►http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2010/11/revolutionary-body-mass-index.html
“In short, the rise and fall of anti-imperialist armed struggle in the rise and fall of his gut, blood pressure, and blood alcohol level.”