Hachem Sahbi
@hachemsahbi.bsky.social
Geopolitics & IR | Political Science | Migration
For the past few weeks, the NYC mayoral race has captivated the attention of the public sphere. #Mamdani, a socialist factionalist within the Democratic Party, has been the subject of debate among leftists around the world. So, what can we take away from this battle?
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For the past few weeks, the NYC mayoral race has captivated the attention of the public sphere. #Mamdani, a socialist factionalist within the Democratic Party, has been the subject of debate among leftists around the world. So, what can we take away from this battle?
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Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s mayoral election, sparking jubilation from Europe’s left wing.
“Hope won,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared after the democratic socialist candidate triumphed in America’s largest city.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...
“Hope won,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared after the democratic socialist candidate triumphed in America’s largest city.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s mayoral election, sparking jubilation from Europe’s left wing.
“Hope won,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared after the democratic socialist candidate triumphed in America’s largest city.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...
“Hope won,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared after the democratic socialist candidate triumphed in America’s largest city.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Decolonisation has been thoroughly marketized with academics in global North—decolonising this and decolonising that. Researchers use the term in grant applications to improve the likelihood of success, as it is the latest fashionable paradigm in town.
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Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
Decolonisation in the academy is a political project and continual process but has become the equivalent of clickbait without any real transfer of power to those who still do not have academic authori...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Decolonisation has been thoroughly marketized with academics in global North—decolonising this and decolonising that. Researchers use the term in grant applications to improve the likelihood of success, as it is the latest fashionable paradigm in town.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Long before Mikhail #Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about #economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, democratic model of #socialism that would empower workers.
Why Soviet Economic Reform Couldn’t Save the System
Long before Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, democr...
jacobin.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Long before Mikhail #Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about #economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, democratic model of #socialism that would empower workers.
“The runaway world” argues Chris Harman in a book on zombie #capitalism, “is the economic system as #Marx described it, the Frankenstein’s monster that has escaped from human control; the vampire that saps the lifeblood of the living bodies it feeds off.”
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jacobin.com/2018/10/marx...
Reading Marx on Halloween
Life under capitalism is the experience of horror — and there is no better guide to it than Karl Marx.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“The runaway world” argues Chris Harman in a book on zombie #capitalism, “is the economic system as #Marx described it, the Frankenstein’s monster that has escaped from human control; the vampire that saps the lifeblood of the living bodies it feeds off.”
jacobin.com/2018/10/marx...
jacobin.com/2018/10/marx...
In its aims and purposes a communist organization, in its character a class organization, and in its principles of operation an independent organization linking the Party with the broadest layers of working youth.
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A short history of the Soviet Komsomol founded October 29, 1918
Mass rally in Red Square for the 50th anniversary of the Komsomol, October 29, 1968 -- RIA Novosti archive, image #569464 / Vladimir Akimov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/li...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
In its aims and purposes a communist organization, in its character a class organization, and in its principles of operation an independent organization linking the Party with the broadest layers of working youth.
www.theleftchapter.com/post/a-short...
www.theleftchapter.com/post/a-short...
Winning #elections, even at a small local scale, is very important for the social-democratic project. A #socialist winning means implementing socialist policies throughout their mandate, but also inspiring millions of leftists around the world to work harder.
jacobin.com/2025/06/zohr...
jacobin.com/2025/06/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani’s Canvassing Operation Is What Democracy Looks Like
The kind of mass volunteer door-knocking operation that New York City mayoral campaign for Zohran Mamdani has built is the way to fight rising authoritarianism and the erosion of democracy.
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June 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Winning #elections, even at a small local scale, is very important for the social-democratic project. A #socialist winning means implementing socialist policies throughout their mandate, but also inspiring millions of leftists around the world to work harder.
jacobin.com/2025/06/zohr...
jacobin.com/2025/06/zohr...
A clear, deep, and useful analysis by Thomas I. Palley on the protracted Russian-Ukrainian crisis. His insights range from internal historical roots to external #hegemonic factors, concluding with an examination of the short-term outcomes of the ongoing #war
monthlyreview.org/2025/06/01/t...
monthlyreview.org/2025/06/01/t...
Monthly Review | The War in Ukraine—A History: How the U.S. Exploited Fractures in the Post-Soviet Order
Thomas Palley identifies and illuminates both the internal and external drivers of the war in Ukraine. Through this article, he explores how the breakup of the Soviet Union…
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June 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A clear, deep, and useful analysis by Thomas I. Palley on the protracted Russian-Ukrainian crisis. His insights range from internal historical roots to external #hegemonic factors, concluding with an examination of the short-term outcomes of the ongoing #war
monthlyreview.org/2025/06/01/t...
monthlyreview.org/2025/06/01/t...
1/ Within the framework of the prevailing US-led hegemonic order, Israel is widely perceived as the sole actor permitted to secure such a military advantage in the #MENA region.
June 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
1/ Within the framework of the prevailing US-led hegemonic order, Israel is widely perceived as the sole actor permitted to secure such a military advantage in the #MENA region.
Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson: Alarming Signs the American Empire is crumbling before our eyes
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Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson: Alarming Signs the American Empire Is Crumbling Before Our Eyes
YouTube video by Dialogue Works
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May 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson: Alarming Signs the American Empire is crumbling before our eyes
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Yémen. Les mystères d’une île convoitée orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entend...
Yémen. Les mystères d’une île convoitée
Dans L’Arbre et la tempête, paru aux éditions Marchialy, le journaliste Quentin Müller livre un carnet de voyage au Yémen, oscillant entre analyse (…)
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May 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yémen. Les mystères d’une île convoitée orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entend...
Gaza, la bande du non droit
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Gaza, la Bande du non droit
C’est dans un langage désormais totalement débridé, que le gouvernement israélien a déclaré que l’armée s’apprêtait à occuper l’enclave palestinienne
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May 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Gaza, la bande du non droit
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Ahmed Nadhif's review of Murray Carpenter’s new book, "Sweet and Deadly: How #CocaCola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick," offers a compelling perspective that underscores how deeply entrenched major corporations are within the historic #hegemonic bloc.
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«حلو وقاتل»: كوكا كولا والاقتصاد السياسي للعلم الزائف
عشرات الملايين تنفقها شركة كوكا كولا على مؤسسات بحثية وجامعات للخروج بدراسات تنفي أي صلة بين منتجاتها وأمراض السكري والسمنة وغيرها.
7iber.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Ahmed Nadhif's review of Murray Carpenter’s new book, "Sweet and Deadly: How #CocaCola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick," offers a compelling perspective that underscores how deeply entrenched major corporations are within the historic #hegemonic bloc.
7iber.com/society/%d9%...
7iber.com/society/%d9%...
The 2023 MoU enabled Italy’s 60% drop in irregular migration since 2021. Critics condemn forced deportations & EU externalization as the rising xenophobic populism, amplified by the president's rhetoric, risks normalizing structural racism.
#Migration #EU #Tunisia
#Migration #EU #Tunisia
Mémorandum d’entente Tunisie-UE : Sous la colère populaire, le désastre humanitaire
Qu'ils soient opposés à leur expulsion d'Europe ou qu'ils applaudissent celle des migrants subsahariens de Tunisie, nos concitoyens ne se font plus d’illusion sur le mémorandum d’entente conclu avec l...
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April 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The 2023 MoU enabled Italy’s 60% drop in irregular migration since 2021. Critics condemn forced deportations & EU externalization as the rising xenophobic populism, amplified by the president's rhetoric, risks normalizing structural racism.
#Migration #EU #Tunisia
#Migration #EU #Tunisia
To remember the start of the first communist group in Tunisia, Fatin Hafssia gives a timeline of the history of communism in Tunisia.
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اليسار التونسي: قراءة في جيولوجيا الزمن | Legal Agenda
“التاريخ هو العلم الوحيد الذي نعرفه ونعترف به” كارل ماركس يعيش اليسار التونسي شتاءه الأسخن: أزمة تلِد أزمات، تشظي أحزاب إلى حزيبات، سباق زعامات قديم جديد، مواقف متناقضة من قضايا سابقة وآنيّة، تصريحات وبيانات مُضادّة، تَشرذم مَواقِعي في الخارطة السياسية. وأخيرا لا […]
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March 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
To remember the start of the first communist group in Tunisia, Fatin Hafssia gives a timeline of the history of communism in Tunisia.
legal-agenda.com/%D8%A7%D9%84...
legal-agenda.com/%D8%A7%D9%84...
"Le Seigneur des rats" une nouvelle sortie de l'imagination de Gilbert Naccache quand il était en prison, en 1976, en raison de ses idéaux politiques.
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#politics #tunisia
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#politics #tunisia
"Le Seigneur des rats" : une dystopie visionnaire renaît en bande dessinée - Le Matin d'Algérie
Le 15 mars en Tunisie, puis le 28 mars en France, paraîtra Le Seigneur des Rats, une bande dessinée exceptionnelle qui revisite une œuvre phare de la littérature carcérale tunisienne.
lematindalgerie.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"Le Seigneur des rats" une nouvelle sortie de l'imagination de Gilbert Naccache quand il était en prison, en 1976, en raison de ses idéaux politiques.
lematindalgerie.com/le-seigneur-...
#politics #tunisia
lematindalgerie.com/le-seigneur-...
#politics #tunisia
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The true colours of the new ex-Al Qaida rulers of Syria are shining through. A country with a magnificent culture and history, Syria went from a secular tyranny to a theocratic nightmare. Time for the spirit of Woman-Life-Freedom to bring deliverance www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Syrian security forces execute 125 civilians in battle against Assad loyalists
Battle in Latakia is marked escalation by Bashar al-Assad loyalists against Syria’s new Islamist-led government
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March 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The true colours of the new ex-Al Qaida rulers of Syria are shining through. A country with a magnificent culture and history, Syria went from a secular tyranny to a theocratic nightmare. Time for the spirit of Woman-Life-Freedom to bring deliverance www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
By excluding Marxist political economists, historians, and scientists, and thus materialism, Western Marxism in these terms also became removed from class and imperialism, and thus the very idea of struggle.
Monthly Review | Western Marxism and Imperialism: A Dialogue
John Bellamy Foster and Gabriel Rockhill assess the history and influence of Western Marxism, defined not geographically, but by a rejection of the Marxism developed in the Soviet Union…
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March 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
By excluding Marxist political economists, historians, and scientists, and thus materialism, Western Marxism in these terms also became removed from class and imperialism, and thus the very idea of struggle.
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Compiling a list of proletarian literature. What texts in English translation belong on the list?
For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution (ed. Bowen-Struyk and Field), obviously.
For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution (ed. Bowen-Struyk and Field), obviously.
For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature
An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature
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March 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Compiling a list of proletarian literature. What texts in English translation belong on the list?
For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution (ed. Bowen-Struyk and Field), obviously.
For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution (ed. Bowen-Struyk and Field), obviously.