Islam Bergerak — Islam in Motion — is one of Indonesia's most significant progressive Muslim platforms, committed to reframing Islamic discourse around questions of emancipation, class, and solidarity rather than identity or electoral positioning. In late 2015 it organised a seminar series together with the Social Movement Institute in Yogyakarta. The left ideas under exploration arrive via academic Marxism, not through organised left parties or social movements, but they reflect an interest (…)

The provisional death toll announced for the tragedy off the coast of Ceuta stands at over sixty, all victims of forced migration. We are not facing a conventional war here, where shells rain down and gunfire rings out, but a daily social war – seemingly silent, yet bloody in its consequences – which claims the lives of the most destitute and drives young people to risk their lives on the very brink of death. The actual number of victims will undoubtedly be higher than that reported. As (…)

Le bilan provisoire annoncé des victimes de la tragédie survenue aux abords de Ceuta dépasse les soixante morts, victimes de l'émigration forcée. Nous ne sommes pas ici face à une guerre conventionnelle où pleuvent les obus et où retentissent les coups de feu, mais face à une guerre sociale quotidienne, silencieuse en apparence, sanglante dans ses conséquences, qui fauche la vie des plus démunis et pousse les jeunes à risquer leur vie aux portes de la mort. Le nombre réel de victimes sera (…)