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I am very conscious of the great honour of being invited to participate in this seminar (2012) as someone who did not belong to the same international current as Daniel Bensaïd and only got to know him in the last decade of his life. But as soon as we met, what drew me towards Daniel was not simply his immense personal qualities—his strength of character, warmth and kindness, and a dry sense of humour congenial to an Anglo-Saxon sensibility (although inflected by Daniel's strong southern accent, the product of a clime very different from the damp island I inhabit)—but the...

The ANC-led alliance’s indifference to the plight of the poor and those marginalised in a range of other ways has been repeatedly noted. Given this indifference, it is unsurprising that organisations that once thrived on debate are now uninterested in debating ideas. Without such debate there can be no ‘renewal’ or any meaningful emancipatory project expanding the realms of freedom. In trying to understand the character of the current period, we must identify a range of aspects that may not be the focus of the headlines or the coverage of politics in the media. One of the fea...

The ANC-led alliance’s indifference to the plight of the poor and those marginalised in a range of other ways has been repeatedly noted. Given this indifference, it is unsurprising that organisations that once thrived on debate are now uninterested in debating ideas. Without such debate there...

Antonis Pastellopoulos Cypriot Anarchist Ideology in the Post-Partitioned Republic of Cyprus (1985 to 1994) “Cyprus Belongs to its Mouflons” 2017

For the Italian Communist, there was no road map for social transformation beyond hands-on, bottom-up activism.