Last articles

• Scum of the French ghettoes, unite!

  15 November 2005, by @Alfred, Soopa Seb

  The youth uprisings in Seine St Denis (French department 93, North of Paris) do not only tell of their discontent with the disproportionate police operation ordered by government. They also epitomize 30 years of social revendications facing off with conservative attacks. Will we listen this time?

• "When the levee breaks": New Orleans, the third world in your backyard

  14 September 2005, by Alfred

  There was one positive side to hurricane Katrina : it revealed to the world that even in America there are poor people, black people, and that nobody gives a shit about them.

• Kevin Dziadon 1977-2005-In Memoriam

  13 September 2005, by Alfred

  Homage to bassmeister Kevin Dziadon, who passed away two months ago. Sitarno!

• Culture and neocolonialism

  17 July 2005, by @Alfred, M. Gabuzomeu

  What is culture ? The reification of art brought to its ultimate degree ? Indeed. But it is also a precious tool for France in explaining its colonialist policies, without the least trace of remorse, thanks to its broad cultural network abroad. What is at stake, and what it implies.

• 1945-2005: Commemorating oblivion

  3 June 2005, by @Alfred, Soopa Seb

  From Africa to the Americas and from the Americas to Europe, slaves weren’t the only ones to cross the ocean : the laws and techniques of segregation did too. And they survived World War Two...