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[...] Women of color couldn't be asked to wait for the white male capitalist class to fall before addressing the blight of racism or sexism on their lives - nor, for that matter, could men of color or white women. It was not solidarity to sweep internal issues under the rug util the real enemy's de…

[...] even anti-racist organisations that do not define themselves as anti-capitalist should be supported by the Left, for a very specific reason: I think that anti-capitalism is not about statements, but about what you are really struggling against. [...] we cannot evaluate movements like Black Li…

We are living a 'long war' in which urban destruction is the dominant strategy. The 'long war' against terrorism and fundamentalist Islamism is fought as an urban war. If we take the equality of all human beings as our premise, then the attacks in Paris, Brussels and Nice are no more terrorising th…

Fanon's nuanced analysis of colonisation as spatial organisation is important to understanding our 'postcolonial' time. Colonial spatial organisation relies on everyday racism, which is thus both a lived ideology and an alienating spatial relation. Colonial violence and domination are inscribed int…

We had nearly the same number of immigrants twenty years ago. But they had another name then: they were called migrant workers or just plain workers. Today's immigrant is first a worker who has lost his second name, who has lost the political form of his identity and of his otherness, the form of a…