by Olibro Webmaster | Dec 11, 2019
On December 10, the mass mobilization against pension cuts that has brought the French economy to a halt entered its sixth day, with over 500,000 taking to the streets in demonstrations across the country. Strikers shut down bus, subway, and train lines, while... by Olibro Webmaster | Oct 4, 2019
Written by a leading sociological theorist of gender with roots in North Africa, Foucault’s Orient is the most comprehensive survey to date of the French poststructuralist’s perceptions of and writings on non-Western societies. Marnia Lazreg has mined... by Olibro Webmaster | Sep 5, 2019
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia. Although this grim event is now being discussed in profound and penetrating ways, few in the mainstream media are noting the particularly capitalist character of the New...
by Olibro Webmaster | Jun 4, 2019
I greet with great pleasure the Arabic translation of Marx at the Margins. As readers will see, the book takes up three intertwined issues within Marx’s thought, all them in relation to capital and the struggle for its transcendence: (1) race, ethnicity and class... by Olibro Webmaster | Feb 1, 2019
In January 2019, a massive strike of over 30,000 public school teachers stunned the Los Angeles power structure when it received massive, almost unanimous public support, especially in the city’s large Latinx and Black communities. Latinx students now make up 75% of...
