check our project redcaju.org - a painstaking work of mapping derisking energy projects at granular level across the African continent, analyses of energy policies in Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, and a lot more to come.
Commodification of “learning” and making “intellectualism” “hot” via celebrity culture is not going to save us! This really pissed me off.
Comunicado conjunto rede ex aequo – associação de jovens LGBTI e apoiantes; ILGA Portugal; AMPLOS; Casa Qui; Opus Diversidades:
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So what persists after movements take an electoral turn. The consciousness built. The organizational muscle developed. Those aren’t destroyed by electoral co-optation. Threatened, yes. Captured, temporarily. But not ended.
My argument is twofold: First, electoral co-optation will persist as a disciplining mechanism of bourgeois politics until movements forge the tenacity capable of resisting it. Second, the success of a revolutionary moment is never measured by whether it arrived as a single, climactic rupture.
My point here is neither that all uprisings are condemned to electoral absorption or that the Gen Z uprising’s continuation at the peak of its revolutionary fury would have delivered all their demands.
To treat this real fear of imperialism as a guide is to condemn Nepal to permanent strategic paralysis and to assume, in defeatist fashion, that no organized resistance is possible for a small nation caught between competing imperial projects. I reject that assumption forcefully.
And then there’s the imperial question: Nepal is landlocked between two regional powers with active interests in shaping its politics. Fear of various kinds of interventions is real and material & can’t be dismissed with revolutionary bravado. But fear is never a complete political analysis.
What’s on offer from incoming regime: privatization of public assets, deepened capital markets, private insurance folded into welfare. A movement born of fury at corrupt extraction is being steered toward its rationalized, internationally-certified form. A full throttled embrace of neoliberalism!
But electoral co-optation is a pretty common feature of capitalist democracies. It is how they metabolizes dissent everywhere into something more digestible by state & international structures. Balen Shah. Zohran Mamdani. Different contexts, same structural function.
The demands of the movement were rooted in in something far more structural than electoral turnover - the promise of governance devoid of corruption, and a transformation of people’s material conditions.
Nepal just had a historic election. Legacy parties, almost a century old were swept out by RSP and the populist mayor of Kathmandu Balen Shah riding a wave of genuine popular energy. But a question worth asking is is this what the September 8 uprising was actually fighting for?
A thread about Nepal’s recent elections, electoral co-operation of movements, resistance within imperial contexts, and the accumulation of revolutionary culture. You can read the full article here:
A lot of the money behind the AI boom is coming from pension funds of working class people and when parts of the AI bubble burst, private capital gets protected, while ordinary people can be left with the losses.
The AI Data Center Gold Rush: The Bailout State Behind It - youtu.be/fHwYIFa1mNE
I am thrilled to be on the advisory board of this series, please feel free to get in touch with ideas, questions, or proposals!
Cant take the valorization of this sentiment as an indication of love, hope or human decency. Loving the U.S., waving its flag, and insisting that the violence that is constitutive to the U.S. state as not USian is incoherent and dangerous. I wrote something last week that speaks to this!
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
I wrote about how migration discourse & even our resistance gets colonized by the forces that created the displacement in the first place. We're forced to react to one fascist spectacle after another while material foundations of displacement remain uninterrogated.
If you ask most colonized people they will tell you that this has always been the U.S.
If the newly formed socialists in the U.S. throw champagne on cops would we learn the true meaning of champagne socialists ? Anyway, good job by this young man!
What a game !
Talia raises some crucial points about heteropessism / heterofatalism -urging us to question the apparent persistence of heterosexuality. If heterosexuality currently is a site of women's oppression, is the radical response to reform it or can we commit ourselves to build alternatives?
Please read this piece - I'm so fascinated by it! It provides a clear walk-through of feminist history - especially valuable for those of us less familiar with these debates. I learnt so much!
It's time we ask the right questions - not merely how to attract more capital, but why we're forced to commodify our lives in the first place.
My latest piece explores how private equity operates as a mechanism of subordination in the Global South. From Nepal to Kenya, we're told to celebrate foreign investment while our working populations bear all the risk and see none of the gains.
Bluesky deleted his account (and keeps doing it). I verified that his account is him & that this Chuffed fundraiser is his: chuffed.org/project/1580...
The UK is not safe for trans people!
The Trump administration is engineering a brutal reordering of global capitalism. While claiming isolationism abroad and racism at home, they're actually forging a transnational capitalist alliance powered by AI. American fascists seek other fascists willing to enforce technological extraction.
I speak with authority here as a child who was taken to many a rallies - you’re good!
I might be pro this kind of immigration process - at least until we dissolve borders! I moved to Lisbon and can walk up and downhill without slipping a lot. Do I get permanent residency now?
