Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

We Are All … fill in the blank

Published on ZNet, by Noam Chomsky, Jan 10, 2015.

… By the same token, we can readily comprehend the comment in the New York Times of civil rights lawyer Floyd Abrams, noted for his forceful defense of freedom of expression, that the Charlie Hebdo attack is “the most threatening assault on journalism in living memory.” He is quite correct about “living memory,” which carefully assigns assaults on journalism and acts of terror to their proper categories: Theirs, which are horrendous; and Ours, which are virtuous and easily dismissed from living memory.   Continuer la lecture de « We Are All … fill in the blank »

Anarchism and Communism in Cuba

Interview with author Arnold August – Published on Dissident Voice – Part 1, by Kim Petersen, January 6, 2015.

Political economy is more often than not depicted as a Left-Right bifurcation. This is too simplistic. It overlooks the difference between, on the one hand, right-wingers such as the Conservatives, Labour Party, and Liberal Democrats from, on the other hand, the far Right British National Party in the United Kingdom. It also omits the differences on the Left, for example, between Communists and anarchists … // Continuer la lecture de « Anarchism and Communism in Cuba »

Charlie Hebdo – the survivors

THEIR ACTUAL WEBSITE: en français: Charlie Hebdo, le journal des survivants; translated – Charlie Hebdo, the journal of the survivors; next issue: 14 January 2015.

Survivors to publish new issue of Charlie Hebdo:

An Unconditional Citizen's Income

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s e-bulletin no. 1065, by Ursula Huws, Jan 6, 2015.

In these straitened times, the idea of a basic income, granted unconditionally to every citizen, from cradle to grave, feels utopian. How on earth could it be paid for, we wonder. Wouldn’t everyone just stop working? Where would we be then? … // Continuer la lecture de « An Unconditional Citizen's Income »

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