Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period..

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings..

The only way that we can prove the relevance of Fanon in a certain way outside of some academic circles is to ask, do people involved in social strug….

Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy..

If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at the grassroots leve….

Political change does not really lead to any fundamental change for most of the people, indeed because politics (even if it calls itself democratic) ….

The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change ca….

The problem in Syria, I think, is that when there is so much violence, there is not only very little chance to create spaces for liberation, but also….

For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected wi….

Violence is used to suppress a people in a most blatantly crude way. We can historicize and contextualize it. We can analyze the Algerian situation, ….

What is interesting about the revolts is that they show that there is never anything purely spontaneous, and there is always some thinking and discus….

Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the axiom that the wretched of the earth….

The Syrian people do not recognize themselves in the elite politics of the Muslim Brotherhood or the left, each of which is looking for an external p….

The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who r….

There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities a….

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by th….

Organization has to come from an agreement about principles, rather than just the need to coordinate: so as much as we must all act today in a concer….

Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something else, but als….

Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended..

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds..

Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought..