The City of Philadelphia has introduced legislation to limited ICE in the city. The Federal Agents can not be masked, must have ID visible, must have arrested warrants signed by federal judges. They can't attack people. If they can't do this, they will be arrested.
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Canadian friends: today is *the very last day* to buy a membership in the NDP and have a say in who the party's next leader will be.
Only members can vote in March.
On climate and economic justice, we need a strong third party.
Don't sit it out!
act.lewisforleader.ca/become-an-nd...
It is impossible to reorient the operation of a society’s economic life in an anticapitalist path without a decisive presence from the state. Yet the ever-growing presence of the state in society causes a progressive stifling of democratic spaces. This is the dilemma that was posed at that time and it is the dilemma that frames the processes of change today. To put it bluntly: bread and democracy seem to be mutually exclusive concepts; all that is left is to opt for one or the other. During these long years, the Latin American left – and not only the Latin American left, of course – justified “real” socialism on the basis of the admission that it had been able to solve the same persistent issues affecting the people of Latin America. According to it, those who, also from the left, insisted on speaking about democracy did so with the narrow-minded goal of denying the conquests achieved by socialism – in the end, who cared about those miserable bourgeois freedoms, like reading the newspaper of one's choice, compared to the countless benefits that socialism gave to humanity!
Today, this terrible quid pro quo has blown up. Because it is not true that socialism assures the historical necessities of men and women by amputating their fundamental freedoms. In the long run, this amputation hampers the fulfilment of historical necessities. Today, the crisis of socialism is showing us that it is impossible to draw a dividing line between bread and democracy, because, in doing so, socialism itself disappears. In increasingly complex modern societies, it seems as though socialism cannot make headway based on an enlightened confidence in the abilities of reason to create progress, but rather the opposite, on questioning, to the fullest, its neocapitalist recuperation. It is only by questioning the harmoniousness of socialist models that we can admit social conflictiveness and political interaction as irrepressible phenomena of all future – and therefore present – societies. Socialism resets recompone the dialecticity of its relationship with democracy by incorporating pluralism (political, organisational, ideological, cultural, etc.) as its own irrepressible value; but in doing so, it radically questions all concrete socialist experiences.
Socialists have no practical solutions, nor Marxists theoretical answers, to all these issues. But I wonder: Does anyone have them, or did anyone ever have them? Is capitalism an answer? Are we not witnessing the fall of the ideological paradigms on which bourgeois societies were constructed? Are we not beginning to accept the idea of the un-governability of such societies? At the same time, does the firm questioning of current socialist experiences mean we are negating the gains in the growth and redistribution of resources? Put another way, does it mean we must renounce any programmatic and society-centered reconstruction project of society? Is there a third way that would allow us to escape capitalism to construct a more egalitarian – but also infinitely freer and more democratic – society? This is where, I think, the debate turns into a vicious circle and shows itself completely incapable of moving forward in novel paths. It is here, too, that we are unable to prevent ourselves from either dashing for utopia or accepting cynically the state of things. It is here where, in total good faith but with maximum critical faculty, we must learn to measure ourselves against the facts.
In light of the Trump administration's renewed imperialism in Latin America, it's worth revisiting the insights of José Aricó.
In our latest forum on "Left Democratic Futures," we include a republication of his 1980 essay “Neither Cynicism nor Utopia.”
Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.
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I called for a Canadian arms embargo and trade restrictions on the UAE until it stops funding the RSF and for Canadian weapons manufacturers to be held accountable for their complicity in the Senate today, I also called for Canada to adopt bill c-233 (1/4)
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Precious good news! Welcome Emma!
Amazing!! Welcome Emma.
What you need to know about the Ring of Fire.
This is not a nation-building exercise.
For many years as a politician I was a booster of this massive project in the fragile wetlands. I turned to doubt and then opposition over the huge impacts on the land.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-breath...
It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
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Canada says it's a refuge. It has dangled only false hopes to Palestinians seeking to study here after Israel bombed their universities, or who have applied to be reunited with family.
I co-wrote this piece with Deborah Cowen, Kyo Maclear and Madeleine Thien www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7a8fbe1...
Divestment victory! Yesterday, the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) voted to call on the University Pension Plan (UPP) to divest from the manufacture of weapons used to commit or facilitate war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Sudan www.cjpme.org/who_supports...
Cover of Communication, Culture & Critique, Vol. 18, Issue 1, March 2025 — the first under the leadership of a new editorial collective.
Editor Paula Chakravartty, New York University Editorial Collective A.J. Bauer, University of Alabama Miriyam Aouragh, University of Westminster Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román’, Columbia University Gil Hochberg, Columbia University Karma R. Chávez, University of Texas, Austin Natalie Fenton, Goldsmiths, University of London Verónica Gago, University of Buenos Aires and the National University of San Martín Rachel Kuo, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dina Matar, SOAS Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Cornell University Fernanda Pinto de Almeida, University of the Western Cape Srirupa Roy, University of Göttingen Jonathan Sterne, McGill University
Communication, Culture & Critique is now under the direction of a new editor and editorial collective!
Check our first issue to learn more:
academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/18/1
Okay, everyone, get this in your calendars....
Glen Coulthard, "Indigenous-Palestinian Solidarity and the Political Economy of Oil"
Birmingham Race Impact Group Cafe, 6PM, Friday, 24 January 2025
Register now!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indigenous...
I've signed (it's now open to allies and supporters as well). Cdn legal scholars: pls share and consider signing on.
What we are seeing in Sudan is a mass mobilization of people coordinating relief efforts in the face of an inadequate intl. aid response and an absent civilian state. The situation is catastrophic AND ppl can learn frm the mutual aid networks they built.
Please support them here:
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