العمال يؤسسون للديمقراطية والعلمانية

Workers Lay the Foundations for Democracy and Secularism

Bidayat

150 years since the Paris Commune — 72 days of direct democracy, secularism, and social justice. Paris lived in the future and bequeathed the hope that paradise on earth is possible.

١٥٠ عامًا على «عامّية باريس»

150 Years Since the Paris Commune

Bidayat

From the shock of defeat and refusal to surrender, the Paris Commune declared the first experiment in direct democracy, secularism, and social justice, affirming that democracy is a product of popular imagination and struggles.

قصة حوار لم يتم

The Story of a Dialogue That Never Was

Bidayat

He chose his "inveterate friend" as interviewer, then reclaimed the answers before they were copied. Only the questions remain from a dialogue that never happened.

في ذكرى ثورة ١٤ تموز الفرنسية: بلى، نستطيع!

On the Anniversary of the French Revolution of July 14: Yes, We Can!

As-Safir

Democracy was never established by democratic means—born in violence, violence being merely the midwife. Can we? Yes, we can.

عن الكاثار والشَرّّ وما يرسمون

On the Cathars, Evil, and What They Paint

Once the world is judged evil in itself, no one comes out pure; tragedy is dragged in with the verdict.

١٤ تموز: الثورة عيد

14 July: The Revolution as Festival

زوايا

The Bastille fell to the armed people, not to the legislators. That is why the people's day is the Revolution's day.

١٤ تموز: الديمقراطية ثورة

14 July: Democracy as Revolution

زوايا

Democracy was taken, not given — wrested from the bourgeoisie, not bestowed by it.

أزمة مواصلات (من مشاهدات الفوانجيسي في العالم السفلي الباريسي)

A Transport Crisis: The Funjissi's Observations in the Parisian Underworld

الكرمل

A new Fariyaq in the Paris Métro: eyes trained never to meet, discipline manufactured by modernity.

شعر الثورة ثورة في الشعر

The Poetry of Revolution, a Revolution in Poetry

الكرمل

Éluard the lover cannot be pried from Éluard the communist. Even the French right had to concede the point.