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Archive of Messages to the World

    Timothy Mitchell
    07 June 2017
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    McJihad: Empire and Islam between The US and Saudi Arabia

    It has become popular today to say that we live in an era of what Benjamin Barber has labelled "Jihad vs. McWorld." The globalising powers of capitalism ("McWorld") are confronted with or resisted by the forces that Barber labels "Jihad" — the variety of tribal particularisms and "narrowly conceived faiths" opposed to the homogenising force of capital. Even those with a critical view of the growth of American empire and the expansion of what is erroneously termed the global market usually subscribe to this interpretation. In fact it is the critics who often argue that we need a better understanding of these local forms of resistance against the "universal" force of the market.

    The terms of this debate are quite misleading. We live in an age, to adapt Barber’s nomenclature, of "McJihad." It is an age in which the mechanisms of what we call capitalism appear to operate, in certain critical instances, only by adopting the social force and moral authority of conservative Islamic movements. It may be true that we need a better understanding of the local forces that oppose the globalisation of capital; but, more than this, we need a better understanding of the so-called global forces of capital.

    Anne Rumberger
    28 June 2016
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    Post Orlando / Post Brexit Anti-Islamophobia Reading List

    Antonis Vradis
    30 November 2015
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    Community, diversity, solidarity: saving the urban spirit after Paris—By Antonis Vradis

    Sebastian Budgen
    19 November 2015
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    The war must go on... Sebastian Budgen on the West's strategy after Paris

    18 November 2015
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    #ParisAttacks: A reading list

    Mike Watson
    17 February 2015
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    'Religion: a private affair?' A rebuttal of a commonplace idea by Christine Delphy

    Maya Osborne
    13 January 2015
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    'Free Speech' and Islamophobia: A Reading List

    Phan Nguyen
    08 September 2011
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    A Survey of Verso's Responses to 9/11

    Clara Heyworth
    03 May 2011
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    GRITtv: Tariq Ali, Sonali Kolhatkar, and Voices from Ground Zero

    Clara Heyworth
    02 May 2011
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    Some words from the introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden

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