The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San D…

American Babylon

A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar Oakland

America, América: a new history of the New World

"The story of how the United States' identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. But as Greg Grandin vividly demonstrates, the nation's unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south-no less than Latin America's was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north. In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World Grandin reveals how North and South emerged from a constant, turbulent engagement with each other. America, América traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest-the greatest mortality event in human history-through the eighteenth-century wars for independence, the Monroe Doctrine, the coups and revolutions of the twentieth century, and beyond. Grandin shows, among other things, how royalist Spanish America, by sending troops and supplies, helped save the republican American Revolution; how in response to U.S. interventions, Latin Americans remade the rules, leading directly to the founding of the United Nations; and how the Good Neighbor Policy allowed FDR to assume the moral authority to lead the fight against world fascism. Grandin's book sheds new light on well-known historical figures like Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as lesser-known actors such as the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda, who almost lost his head in the French Revolution and conspired with Alexander Hamilton to free America from Spain; the Colombian Jorge Gaitán, whose unsolved murder inaugurated the rise of Cold War political terror, death squads, and disappearances; and the radical journalist Ernest Gruening, who in championing non-interventionism in Latin America, helped broker the most spectacularly successful policy reversal in United State history. This is a monumental work of scholarship that will fundamentally change the way we think of slavery and racism, the rise of universal humanism, and the role of social democracy in staving off extremism. At once comprehensive and accessible, America, América shows that centuries of bloodshed and diplomacy not only helped shape the political identities of the United States and Latin America but also the laws, institutions, and ideals that govern the modern world. A culmination of a decades-long engagement with hemispheric history, drawing on a vast array of sources, and told with authority and flair, this is a genuinely new history of the New World"-- Provided by publisher

Canicule : la révolution ou la mort

Frustration Magazine, média indépendant et offensif qui relate la guerre des classes.

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and th…

Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a moti…

The Imperial History Behind the Raid on Venezuela

Peter Beinart interviews scholar Greg Grandin on the history of US intervention in Latin America and what Trump’s new “doctrine” may portend.

Remote Origins: Translation, Genealogy, and Alterity in Medieval Castile (1252-circa 1390)

This dissertation analyzes selected examples of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century written culture to show their engagement with the religious alterity of Islam as an integral part of the origins of the kingdom of Castile. Following an interdisciplinary methodology, it addresses how medieval ideas about astrology, geography, history, medicine, race, and religion participated in creating discourses about origins that recognized the intellectual and political authority of al-Andalus. It argues that early Castilian vernacular texts conceptualized the translation of Arabic sources as an instrument for creating, transforming, and superseding the alterity of Islam while recognizing the cultural and political authority of Andalusi traditions. The first chapter serves as an introduction explaining the historical and theoretical framework of the dissertation. To do so, it provides an overview of Castilian ideas about genealogy, historiography, authority, and translatio, and translation. Then, through close reading and ample historicization, chapters two, three, and four analyze the impact of Andalusi textual traditions, cultural practices, and human population in three interrelated fields of medieval science, literature, and history. Chapter 2 explores the political implications of King Alfonso X’s (r. 1252-1284) dedication to the translation of Arabic sciences by focusing on the translation of a treatise of astrology titled Libro de las cruzes (1259). The chapter traces the cultural and political context that accompanied the transmission of the book in al-Andalus alongside the content of its Arabic and Castilian prologues. In light of ideas about the transference of knowledge (translatio studii) shared by Christian and Muslim scholars, I conclude that deployment of a twofold origin in the Libro de las cruzes illustrates the strategies and motivations of Alfonso X’s broader engagement with Arabic sources. The third chapter turns to the early fourteenth-century romance Libro del caballero Zifar with a double focus on its forged origin as a translation from caldeo (Chaldean) and the prominence of cursed lineages. Regarding lineage, the chapter explores the representation of exemplary virtues by the protagonists of the romance as enacting ideas about the transformable character of lineage and the capabilities of the individual to unmake inherited negative traits. Likewise, the textual strategy of the forged translation enables the inclusion of Arabic and Asian referents at the origin of a profoundly Christian text. In chapter 4, literature meets historiography in the analysis of the Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor. Being the result of intertwining a Castilian chronicle—Alfonso X’s Estoria de Espanna—and a French romance, this text narrates the love story between an Andalusi Muslim prince and the daughter of a captive Christian noble. The chapter focuses on Berta, the captive woman, to show the implications of her decision to nurture Flores and Blancaflor with her milk. Considering Christian and Muslim ideas about milk and wet nursing along with the tenets of Castilian historiography, the chapter shows the limits of dominant ideas about dynastic origins among the Christian elites of Castile while evidencing the existence of an alternative discourse that—coming from within Castilian historiography—incorporates maternal and non-Christian kinship as an essential part of the origins and possibilities of the kingdom. A short final chapter serves as a conclusion, suggesting paths for expanding the results of this dissertation within and the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries covered by its contents.

Incendies en Espagne : le Premier ministre Pedro Sánchez appelle à un « pacte d’État » sur l’urgence climatique

Un « grand pacte d’État » sur l’urgence climatique : c’est ce qu’a proposé le Premier ministre espagnol de gauche, Pedro Sánchez, à l’ensemble des acteurs politiques, et notamment au principal parti de l’opposition, le Parti populaire (PP) du libéral—conservateur Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Cette initiative vise à renforcer les moyens et à améliorer la coordination entre régions face aux catastrophes environnementales.

Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space

“Cartographic Memory is a creative, important, and well-written book that offers a vital analysis of Latinx activism in Oakland. Juan Herrera’s concept of social movement continuities helps us analyze the range of ways that actors make social change, rather than only focusing on the most radical politics or certain epic moments. Herrera’s book is an outstanding contribution toward building a nuanced and complex understanding of Latinx social movements.” - Victoria Lawson, author of Making Development Geography

RESPONSES TO THE CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY BY CELIA PEARCE

The publication of 'The Californian Ideology' has inspired an impassioned debate over the issues raised by the article. Here is a selection of some of the most interesting responses to the piece:

The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. By Marci Shore. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xxiv, 290 pp. Notes. Glossary. Maps. $26.00, hard bound.

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Eco-Furieuxses on Instagram: "BASTILLE DAY – RÉVOLUTION CLIMATIQUE 14 juillet – 15 h • Place de la Bastille, Paris Signe de ralliement : une couverture de survie sur les épaules en écho à la super initiative de @faiteslabriller Le 14 juillet, TOUT CHANGER SAUF LE CLIMAT rejoint la @marchedesolidarités internationaliste aux côtés de @laveritepouradama , @urgencepalestine et de dizaines d'autres collectifs pour affirmer une évidence : la justice climatique ne peut exister sans justice sociale, antiraciste et décoloniale. Face à l'effondrement climatique, aux inégalités, aux guerres, au racisme, au colonialisme, à l'autoritarisme et aux violences de l'appareil répressif, il est temps de reprendre le pouvoir. Nous refusons que les populations les plus vulnérables paient une crise provoquée par les industries fossiles et un modèle économique fondé sur l'exploitation du vivant. Nous exigeons des mesures immédiates pour protéger les travailleuses, les travailleurs et les personnes les plus exposées aux canicules, ainsi qu'un plan climatique ambitieux : sortie des énergies fossiles, réduction massive des émissions, accès universel à l'eau, au logement, à une alimentation saine : la mise en sécurité sociale des communs, avec un transfert réel du pouvoir vers les quartiers populaires, les territoires et les habitantes et habitants. Parce que la catastrophe climatique est aussi sociale et migratoire, nous défendons la liberté de circulation, le droit d’habiter dignement. Comme l'écrit @fatima_ouassak dans "Écologie pirate", il n'y aura pas d'écologie sans justice décoloniale. Le 14 juillet, faisons tomber les Bastilles du XXIᵉ siècle : le capital fossile, le racisme, le colonialisme, les frontières meurtrières, la répression et les privilèges. Vous ne pouvez pas être à Paris ? Rejoignez une mobilisation locale, participez aux rassemblements organisés près de chez vous le soir devant les préfectures via @alternatiba_ , ou engagez une "grève des achats". Construisons un rendez-vous chaque 14 du mois sous des formes complémentaires : rassemblements, marchés, grève des achats avec @les14sansachat Faisons de ce 14 juillet le début de la révolution du XXIe siècle. Graphisme par @eco.lolo"

831 likes, 68 comments - toutchangersaufleclimat on July 9, 2026: "BASTILLE DAY – RÉVOLUTION CLIMATIQUE 14 juillet – 15 h • Place de la Bastille, Paris Signe de ralliement : une couverture de survie sur les épaules en écho à la super initiative de @faiteslabriller Le 14 juillet, TOUT CHANGER SAUF LE CLIMAT rejoint la @marchedesolidarités internationaliste aux côtés de @laveritepouradama , @urgencepalestine et de dizaines d'autres collectifs pour affirmer une évidence : la justice climatique ne peut exister sans justice sociale, antiraciste et décoloniale. Face à l'effondrement climatique, aux inégalités, aux guerres, au racisme, au colonialisme, à l'autoritarisme et aux violences de l'appareil répressif, il est temps de reprendre le pouvoir. Nous refusons que les populations les plus vulnérables paient une crise provoquée par les industries fossiles et un modèle économique fondé sur l'exploitation du vivant. Nous exigeons des mesures immédiates pour protéger les travailleuses, les travailleurs et les personnes les plus exposées aux canicules, ainsi qu'un plan climatique ambitieux : sortie des énergies fossiles, réduction massive des émissions, accès universel à l'eau, au logement, à une alimentation saine : la mise en sécurité sociale des communs, avec un transfert réel du pouvoir vers les quartiers populaires, les territoires et les habitantes et habitants. Parce que la catastrophe climatique est aussi sociale et migratoire, nous défendons la liberté de circulation, le droit d’habiter dignement. Comme l'écrit @fatima_ouassak dans "Écologie pirate", il n'y aura pas d'écologie sans justice décoloniale. Le 14 juillet, faisons tomber les Bastilles du XXIᵉ siècle : le capital fossile, le racisme, le colonialisme, les frontières meurtrières, la répression et les privilèges. Vous ne pouvez pas être à Paris ? Rejoignez une mobilisation locale, participez aux rassemblements organisés près de chez vous le soir devant les préfectures via @alternatiba_ , ou engagez une "grève des achats". Construisons un rendez-vous chaque 14 du mois sous des formes complémentaires : rassemblements, marchés, grève des achats avec @les14sansachat Faisons de ce 14 juillet le début de la révolution du XXIe siècle. Graphisme par @eco.lolo".

« Il a entubé tout le monde » : un expert du climat dénonce une « erreur politique » d’Emmanuel Macron sur le sujet

Le paléoclimatologue Jean Jouzel regrette le manque d’ambition d’Emmanuel Macron...

The Water’s Edge: Empire, Race, and the Global History of Oakland, California, 1848-1980

Author(s): Klein, Andrew Nelson Carver | Advisor(s): Kelley, Robin D.G. | Abstract: This dissertation explores historical intersections between capitalism, race-making, environmental change, and U.S. foreign relations from the vantage of Oakland’s waterfront. It tracks the evolution of this geostrategic coastline since it emerged as a coal-powered nexus of railroads, steamships, and military installations during American colonization. Revising the story of Oakland’s development from a global perspective, my project documents how local boosters, businessmen, and bureaucrats forged intimate ties with far-flung territories administered by U.S. troops and landowners. Combining social and environmental history with methods from Black studies, I map the transformation of Oakland’s fertile estuary into an infilled hub of postindustrial commerce, a vital node of military logistics, and a focal point for racialized labor migration. Simultaneously, this dissertation reveals how, over the long twentieth century, Black, Indigenous, Chinese, and other working-class Oaklanders found footholds on the harbor, often repurposing its imperial routes for dramatically different ends. Drawing on archives and oral histories in Cuba, Hawai‘i, and across the continental United States, I trace Oakland’s tradition of radical internationalism, most visible in the antiwar and Black Power movements of the sixties, to multi-generational struggles over the governance of coastal land. I argue that Oakland’s waterfront both bridged the continental and overseas expansion of an ascendant world power and came to serve as a proving ground for alternative forms of globalization. “The Water’s Edge” therefore offers a critical reappraisal of the generally place-bound history of North American urbanism and far-reaching lessons for building just cities in a present defined by global environmental crises.

Anarchism and The Black Revolution and Other Essays

An analysis of white supremacy vs the black struggle an…

Reflections on Habermas; Luzzato's "The First Fascist"

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