ARCHITECTURES OF POWER OR DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR?

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #rhodesmustfall, Apartheid, architecture, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, building, colonialism, communards, culture, fascism, Henri Lefebvre, Hindu, imperialism, India, Islam, islamophobia, monument, Mughal, Mussolini, Narendra Modi, power, Rhodes Must Fall, superiority, Taj Mahal, Taksim Square, UNESCO, US, Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath.

by Scott Mclaughlan

Despite being considered one of the “seven wonders of the world”, the Taj Mahal was bizarrely absent from a tourism booklet produced this summer by the state government of Uttar Pradesh (UP). Completed between 1631 and 1648, the Taj Mahal is perhaps the finest existing example of Mughal architecture, considered ‘the jewel of Muslim art in India’, in 1983 it was designated a UNESCO world heritage site.

Its international prestige notwithstanding, a storm has been brewing around the famous monument: it has been the scene of regular protests and the focus of an increasingly prominent political campaign to marginalise its national and cultural significance.Continue Reading

THIS IS NOT A DEBATE

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged antifa, Casapound, class war, classism, context, criticism, Daniel Swift, debate, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, extremism, Ezra Pound, fascism, free speech, hate speech, intellectual, italian, Italy, Literary Hub, literature, LitHub, media, MSM, Mussolini, neo-fascism, no platform, normalisation, pepe, racism, response, Richard Spencer, Roberto Spada, Rome, ValigiaBlu, violence, Voltaire, Wu Ming Foundation.

by Alex Valente

Contains strong language.

If your opinion, if your ideology, if your personal mindset is that certain groups and communities of people are inferior to others, you do not deserve and will not be allowed to promote that idea. Fuck the notion of censorship, fuck the moderate, tolerant conversation, fuck the high road. Your ‘opinion’ denies the existence of a large portion of the world around you, and actively strives to suppress it. So you know what? Fuck you.Continue Reading

ITALY’S FASCIST WATERMELON

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged ANPI, Beppe Grillo, Casapound, Cécile Kyenge, centrism, colonialism, dialogue, education, Emanuele Fiano, Emmanuel Chidi Namdi, Erdogan, EU, Europe, fascism, Forza Nuova, Generazion Identitaria, Igiaba Scego, imperialism, Italy, Matteo Salvini, Mediterranean, metaphor, migration, Mussolini, NGOs, ONG, Orban, partisan resistance, politics, propaganda, putin, racism, refugee, school, Trump, UE.

by Alex Valente

CW: racism, sexism, fascism

There’s an old home-grown metaphor that runs in the Italian side of my family – which may have been acquired by my great-grandfather through his context and peers, I just have never heard it anywhere else – which goes as follows:

Italy is a watermelon. The thick, green skin on the outside is democracy, the Republic. The thin white layer that keeps everything inside together is the Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy, the centre party that governed Italy after WWII, and the ancestor of pretty much all centrist politicians since). The red pulp is the Socialist, Communist heart of the country. But the seed, the black seed from which it all grows – that’s Fascism.

DICTATORSHIPS & DEMOCRACY

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Abraham Lincoln, activism, Benito Mussolini, Brexit, china, corruption, democracy, dictator, dictatorship, Donald Trump, Erdogan, EU, EU referendum, Freedom House, Haiti, Hilary Clinton, Joseph Stalin, Lincoln, Mao Zedong, media, Mussolini, oil, politics, poverty, PR, Recep Erdogan, Roberto Saviano, Stalin, steel, turkey, uk, US, US presidential election, yougov, Zedong.

by Gunnar Eigener

‘Democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people.’
– Abraham Lincoln

Democracy has long been the banner to which Western leaders rally their troops to fight under. The Brexit referendum is a prime example of extreme democracy, progress for some at the expense of others. The desired outcome for the Leave campaign is for the UK to become a self-governing democracy. Just how much more democratic will the country become?

Mussolini

ARCHITECTURES OF POWER OR DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR?

THIS IS NOT A DEBATE

ITALY’S FASCIST WATERMELON

DICTATORSHIPS & DEMOCRACY

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