Memorial for Two TEC students today...

It is indeed a sad day. Today the TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY, the main campus in Monterrey, has a ceremony for two graduate students tragically killed by stray bullets on March 19, 2010. The two students are Javier Arredondo and Jorge Mercado. A Facebook site on their behalf has already generated close to 4,000 followers:

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=102480629787015&share_id=106326476063157&comments=1#!/group.php?gid=102480629787015

There are serious questions asked of the Mexican authorities on the site, including why they could not be identified as TEC students.

Today my heart is filled with sadness for the students that will no longer smell the arid, hot sun of Mexico, their families, friends, and colleagues that must endure terrible pain. YOU DO NOT WALK ALONE. This Political Science professor from TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY, CAMPUS QUERETARO, is with you. And so are millions around Mexico. Javier and Jorge, may your souls rest in peace.

Tamir Bar-On

My Third Academic Article!

In 2003-4, a heated debate about fascism took place in a German journal, Erwagen, Wissen, Ethik. In the debate, Roger Griffin, the esteemed historian of fascism, was invited to write a piece about contemporary fascism's "facelessness." Academics, including myself, were asked to respond to Griffin's article. Intellectuals from Germany, England, Canada, the United States, and numerous other countries responded. What was unique about the debate was the collaboration between German and Anglophone academics on Fascism.

My piece was entitled, “A Critical Response to Roger Griffin’s ‘Fascism’s new faces and new facelessness in the post-fascist epoch,’” Erwagen, Wissen, Ethik (Deliberation, Knowledge, Ethics) 15 (3) (April 2004), pp. 307-309.

The aforementioned article I wrote reappeared in the following book:

“A Critical Response to Roger Griffin’s ‘Fascism’s new faces" in Roger Griffin, Werner Loh, and Andreas Umland, (eds.), Fascism Past and Present, West and East (Ibidem-Verlag, 2006), pp. 85-92.

Here below is a link to the article and all other articles in the debate! A full 77 pages of text!

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/30279013/Dr-Tamir-Bar-On-“A-Critical-Response-to-Roger-Griffin’s-‘Fascism’s-new-faces-and-new-facelessness-in-the-post-fascist-epoch”

Tamir Bar-On

Full Text of My Second Academic Article on the Nouvelle Droite!

Here is the full text of my second academic article:

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/29067549/The-Ambiguities-of-the-Nouvelle-Droite-1968-1999

Please let me know your thoughts on this piece, which got me working on the French nouvelle droite and European New Right for many years!

Tamir Bar-On