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Reading Fannon in the 21st Century

The author is also an authentic interpreter of the oeuvre of Frantz Fannon. He considers the revolutionary work of Fannon, his class struggle interpretation, theoretical works and the issues raised in them also relevant in our times, despite the fact that some of the solutions suggested by Fannon could be questioned or should be rejected. For instance the statement that lifting neo-colonial suppression without violence is almost impossible does not imply that violence automatically results in a higher level of civilisation. Former colonies should not try to catch up Europe: revolutionaries and liberation movement members should have a vision of a more human world order.

The extermination of Armenians in Turkey during World War I

The coexistence of Christian minority nations and the majority Muslim population in the area of the Ottoman Empire suffered from bloody conflicts, after the nationalist movements started to emerge in the Balkan at the end of the 18th century influenced also by the intervention of great powers. The problem know as the Eastern Question, also involved the Armenian question, which received more weight in the second half of the 19th century, leading to the lethal politics of deportations in 1915 killing hundreds of thousands of people.

Transmodernity, border thinking, and global coloniality – Decolonizing political economy and postcolonial studies

Postmodernism as an epistemological project still reproduces a particular form of coloniality. A decolonial perspective requires a broader canon of thought that would require taking seriously the epistemic insights of critical thinkers from the global South. How can a "critical border thinking" that envisages a "transmodern world" moves us beyond Eurocentrism?

Published in the Eurozine and also in the special issue of Kult 6 – Special Issue in Denmark. Spanish original.

Apocryphal Beatles

As it also happened at their time, many would like to present Beatles as a group of kindly smiling lads, maybe feather-brained but definitely nice. Just the opposite, this music, including its cultural and social context, is – sometimes indirectly but often openly – about rebellion and protest or even more about creating a better world full of love, not hungry for money and missing exploitation.