Aloysius Pieris (1934–2026) was one of the most original liberation theologians of the twentieth century. A Sri Lankan Jesuit priest with a doctorate in Buddhism, Pieris worked outside the Latin American liberation theology. His core argument was that an Asian liberation theology must be built on interreligious encounter, not despite it: that Buddhist wisdom and Christian self-giving love are complementary idioms of liberation, each incomplete without the other. For Pieris, the poor — most (…)

Ignares ou malveillants, sans doute les deux, ces idéologues et quelques philosophes pour médias prétendent qu'ils/elles auraient ainsi rompu avec l'héritage des luttes antiracistes (dont ces défenseurs de l'ordre social et racial se moquent éperdument et dont ils ne connaissent souvent rien sinon quelques images d'Épinal). Bien au contraire, comme le rappellent Danièle Obono et Patrick Silberstein dans leur introduction à un recueil de textes de Léon Trotsky (dont nous publions un extrait (…)

Léon Trotsky's encounters with the Jewish and Black questions are examined here in an extract from the introduction by Danièle Obono and Patrick Silberstein to a collection of Trotsky's texts on race and oppression. Drawing on Trotsky's dialogues with C.L.R. James and Claude McKay, and on the Fourth International's 1922 resolutions on the Negro question, the authors reconstruct a Marxist tradition that refused to dissolve racial oppression into a generic class framework. Our translation (…)