“Hepimiz Aleviyiz, We Are All Alevi”: Kurds, Syria, and Turkey

Posted Jul 29, 2012 by Eds.

Syria , Turkey Commentary

U.S. exceptionalism surges again. Will it fly?
by M.K. Bhadrakumar
In a statement marking the “return” of the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken disclosed that the Biden Administration is placing democracy and human rights at the centre of American foreign policy.
Class, Gender, Race & Colonialism: The ‘Intersectionality’ of Marx
by Kevin B. Anderson
It is important to see both Marx’s brilliant generalisations about capitalist society and the very concrete ways in which he examined not only class, but also gender, race, and colonialism, and what today would be called the intersectionality of all of these. His underlying revolutionary humanism was the enemy of all forms of abstraction that denied the variety and multiplicity of human experience. For these reasons, no thinker speaks to us today with such force and clarity.