antifascism
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Fanon: from Martinque to Algeria via Ethiopia
We can start with one of Frantz Fanon’s fellow Martinicans: Paulette Nardal. She’s largely responsible for forcing the issue of Black consciousness onto the Parisian community of Black intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and 30s. Négritude is cultivated in her apartment on Sunday afternoons, where Black, white, Arab, Muslim and Christian perform art and…
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More on the Abyssinian general from Guyana
In a previous blog I looked at the impact of the Italian/Ethiopian war on the African peoples of Guyana. I related an incident, in October 1935 – the month that Italy invaded Ethiopia – that was reported in 1936 during a hearing of those labour disputes that had rocked the colony. In Demerara, an oversee…
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Liberalism and Fascism, Nov 2016
Should we defend liberal modes of governance from far-right fascist takeover? Yes. Avowedly. Even as we would be supporting colonial difference in the same defense. I am addressing this contradictory answer to an imagined company of liberals, leftists and alt-lefters living in European, North American and predominantly-white commonwealth countries. Liberal governance, at least in…
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The impact of the 1935 Italian/Ethiopian War in Guyana
Common knowledge has it that it was in Jamaica where the Rastafari faith was first and foremost proclaimed. This is true; however, this truth belies the wider impact of the Italian/Ethiopian war of 1935/6 on the Caribbean region, and especially on its peoples of African heritage. African peoples in Jamaica were not the only ones…
Robbie Shilliam 