Hachem Sahbi
@hachemsahbi.bsky.social
Geopolitics & IR | Political Science | Migration
The anti-imperialist struggle is subordinated to the imperatives of national interest, with this subordination being rebranded as “pragmatic Marxist geopolitics”.
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Marxist Internationalism or National Interest?
By Shadab MurtazaIn contemporary left-wing political discourse, particularly in debates surrounding anti-imperialist struggle, two distinct liberal tendencies have become increasingly evident. The fir...
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January 27, 2026 at 8:37 PM
The anti-imperialist struggle is subordinated to the imperatives of national interest, with this subordination being rebranded as “pragmatic Marxist geopolitics”.
www.theleftchapter.com/post/marxist...
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في سينما يوسف شاهين، لا تُختزل الرحلة في مسار درامي، بل تتخذ شكل قدر وجودي، سفرًا دائمًا بين الأمكنة والهويات، وبين الانتماء والاغتراب
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كيف غيّرت فقرة في مقال رؤيتي لسينما يوسف شاهين وللعالم؟
<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 6</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes...
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January 26, 2026 at 2:56 PM
في سينما يوسف شاهين، لا تُختزل الرحلة في مسار درامي، بل تتخذ شكل قدر وجودي، سفرًا دائمًا بين الأمكنة والهويات، وبين الانتماء والاغتراب
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If the unity of the world is the unity of monetary objects and signs, then for living bodies there is no such unity. There are zones, walls, desperate journeys, hatred, and deaths. There is good Germany and bad Greece.
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True Communism Is the Foreignness of Tomorrow: Alain Badiou talks in A
In late January the philosopher Alain Badiou was in Athens, where he gave three talks. The theme of the first of these was Plato, the second was on Lacan, while the third – the text of which appears b...
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January 24, 2026 at 12:52 PM
If the unity of the world is the unity of monetary objects and signs, then for living bodies there is no such unity. There are zones, walls, desperate journeys, hatred, and deaths. There is good Germany and bad Greece.
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Les rivalités entre vassaux de l’impérialisme profitent à l’impérialisme dans la mesure où elles augmentent la dépendance de chaque État vassal envers le suzerain.
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15 ans après la chute de Ben Ali, quel avenir pour les révolutions dans la région arabe? - Marx21
Dans cet entretien réalisé le 25 décembre 2025, Gilbert Achcar répond aux questions de Jean Batou sur le mouvement révolutionnaire dans la région arabe, 15 ans après sa victoire initiale : la chute de...
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January 12, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Les rivalités entre vassaux de l’impérialisme profitent à l’impérialisme dans la mesure où elles augmentent la dépendance de chaque État vassal envers le suzerain.
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Ben Norton, Donroe Doctrine: #Trump attack on #Venezuela is part of imperial plan to impose #US hegemony in Latin America
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Donroe Doctrine: Trump attack on Venezuela is part of imperial plan to impose US hegemony in Latin America - Geopolitical Economy Report
Donald Trump bombing Venezuela and kidnapping President Maduro is part of imperialist plan to impose US hegemony in Latin America, control natural resources (oil, gas, critical minerals, rare earths),...
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January 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Ben Norton, Donroe Doctrine: #Trump attack on #Venezuela is part of imperial plan to impose #US hegemony in Latin America
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Tariq Ali, Abduction in Caracas
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Tariq Ali, Abduction in Caracas — Sidecar
What happens next?
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January 6, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Tariq Ali, Abduction in Caracas
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Dancing to Y2K While the Future Collapses: Nostalgia in Kais Saied’s Tunisia
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Dancing to Y2K While the Future Collapses: Nostalgia in Kais Saied’s Tunisia
The New Year’s Eve certainly did not feel like another step into the 2020s, a closer leap toward the decennial milestone of 2030 and one year farther from the year that many of us believe time has bee...
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December 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Dancing to Y2K While the Future Collapses: Nostalgia in Kais Saied’s Tunisia
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Following Pickety's inequality report, a brief analysis on the unequal exchange system forced by the global north on the global south
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الامتياز الباهظ للدول الغنية: كيف يسرق النظام المالي الدولي موارد الفقراء؟
كل عام، يخرج من دول الجنوب الفقيرة ما يعادل 1% من الناتج المحلي الإجمالي العالمي نحو دول الشمال الغنية على شكل فوائد ديون وأرباح أصول. رقم يبدو صغيراً، لكنه يساوي ثلاثة أضعاف المساعدات الدولية التي تع...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Following Pickety's inequality report, a brief analysis on the unequal exchange system forced by the global north on the global south
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The (Tunisian) University is dead and we killed it
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The (Tunisian) University is dead and we killed it
The online discussions, infographics, panels, and quarterly conferences on the “disastrous consequences” of capitalism have saturated the so-called “critical” debates around our ever-growing misery an...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The (Tunisian) University is dead and we killed it
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Reality is often disappointing.
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AI Art Is Weird, Sad, and Ugly. Let’s Not Pretend Otherwise.
Because capitalism orients people toward profit rather than allowing us to pursue our interests freely, it inevitably separates humans from the creative act. AI art is just the slop frothing up from t...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Reality is often disappointing.
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Can COP30 be the COP of Truth?
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Can COP30 be the COP of Truth?
The fossil fuel era is ending but the world is still waiting for transformative climate finance for a Just Transition
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November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Can COP30 be the COP of Truth?
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Exploring the Chinese Revolution Today - Monthly Review
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November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For the past few weeks, the NYC mayoral race has captivated the attention of the public sphere. #Mamdani, a socialist factionalist within the Democratic Party, has been the subject of debate among leftists around the world. So, what can we take away from this battle?
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For the past few weeks, the NYC mayoral race has captivated the attention of the public sphere. #Mamdani, a socialist factionalist within the Democratic Party, has been the subject of debate among leftists around the world. So, what can we take away from this battle?
Reposted by Hachem Sahbi
Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s mayoral election, sparking jubilation from Europe’s left wing.
“Hope won,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared after the democratic socialist candidate triumphed in America’s largest city.
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“Hope won,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared after the democratic socialist candidate triumphed in America’s largest city.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s mayoral election, sparking jubilation from Europe’s left wing.
“Hope won,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared after the democratic socialist candidate triumphed in America’s largest city.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...
“Hope won,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared after the democratic socialist candidate triumphed in America’s largest city.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Decolonisation has been thoroughly marketized with academics in global North—decolonising this and decolonising that. Researchers use the term in grant applications to improve the likelihood of success, as it is the latest fashionable paradigm in town.
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Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
Decolonisation in the academy is a political project and continual process but has become the equivalent of clickbait without any real transfer of power to those who still do not have academic authori...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Decolonisation has been thoroughly marketized with academics in global North—decolonising this and decolonising that. Researchers use the term in grant applications to improve the likelihood of success, as it is the latest fashionable paradigm in town.
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Long before Mikhail #Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about #economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, democratic model of #socialism that would empower workers.
Why Soviet Economic Reform Couldn’t Save the System
Long before Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, democr...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Long before Mikhail #Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about #economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, democratic model of #socialism that would empower workers.
“The runaway world” argues Chris Harman in a book on zombie #capitalism, “is the economic system as #Marx described it, the Frankenstein’s monster that has escaped from human control; the vampire that saps the lifeblood of the living bodies it feeds off.”
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Reading Marx on Halloween
Life under capitalism is the experience of horror — and there is no better guide to it than Karl Marx.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“The runaway world” argues Chris Harman in a book on zombie #capitalism, “is the economic system as #Marx described it, the Frankenstein’s monster that has escaped from human control; the vampire that saps the lifeblood of the living bodies it feeds off.”
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In its aims and purposes a communist organization, in its character a class organization, and in its principles of operation an independent organization linking the Party with the broadest layers of working youth.
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A short history of the Soviet Komsomol founded October 29, 1918
Mass rally in Red Square for the 50th anniversary of the Komsomol, October 29, 1968 -- RIA Novosti archive, image #569464 / Vladimir Akimov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/li...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
In its aims and purposes a communist organization, in its character a class organization, and in its principles of operation an independent organization linking the Party with the broadest layers of working youth.
www.theleftchapter.com/post/a-short...
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Winning #elections, even at a small local scale, is very important for the social-democratic project. A #socialist winning means implementing socialist policies throughout their mandate, but also inspiring millions of leftists around the world to work harder.
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Zohran Mamdani’s Canvassing Operation Is What Democracy Looks Like
The kind of mass volunteer door-knocking operation that New York City mayoral campaign for Zohran Mamdani has built is the way to fight rising authoritarianism and the erosion of democracy.
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June 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Winning #elections, even at a small local scale, is very important for the social-democratic project. A #socialist winning means implementing socialist policies throughout their mandate, but also inspiring millions of leftists around the world to work harder.
jacobin.com/2025/06/zohr...
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A clear, deep, and useful analysis by Thomas I. Palley on the protracted Russian-Ukrainian crisis. His insights range from internal historical roots to external #hegemonic factors, concluding with an examination of the short-term outcomes of the ongoing #war
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Monthly Review | The War in Ukraine—A History: How the U.S. Exploited Fractures in the Post-Soviet Order
Thomas Palley identifies and illuminates both the internal and external drivers of the war in Ukraine. Through this article, he explores how the breakup of the Soviet Union…
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June 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A clear, deep, and useful analysis by Thomas I. Palley on the protracted Russian-Ukrainian crisis. His insights range from internal historical roots to external #hegemonic factors, concluding with an examination of the short-term outcomes of the ongoing #war
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1/ Within the framework of the prevailing US-led hegemonic order, Israel is widely perceived as the sole actor permitted to secure such a military advantage in the #MENA region.
June 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
1/ Within the framework of the prevailing US-led hegemonic order, Israel is widely perceived as the sole actor permitted to secure such a military advantage in the #MENA region.
Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson: Alarming Signs the American Empire is crumbling before our eyes
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Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson: Alarming Signs the American Empire Is Crumbling Before Our Eyes
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May 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson: Alarming Signs the American Empire is crumbling before our eyes
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