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Monthly Archives: February 2019
The state against autonomy: In defence of Fraguas
On the 23rd of February, thousands marched through Madrid in solidarity with and in defence of the Fraguas rural occupation. (Kaos en la red) Six of the accused-defendants involved in the occupation were sentenced to 1 year and 9 months … Continue reading
Anarchy against autarchy: Levinas and anarchism
Over and beyond capitalism and exploitation what was contested were their condition: the person understood as an accumulation of being, by merits, titles, professional competence, an ontological tumefaction weighing on others and crushing them, instituting a hierarchized society maintained beyond … Continue reading
Celebrating an anniversary: The 100 years of the anarchist newspaper A Batalha
We share below, in translation, a text that appears on the portuguese website, Portal Anarquista, marking the one hundredth anniversary of the anarchist newspaper, A Batalha. We do so for the newspaper’s historical significance, as a testimony to a tradition in anarchism of publishing as an intrinsic part … Continue reading
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Tagged A Batalha, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, Confederação Geral do Trabalho, portugal
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In solidarity with the Asilo Occupato of Turin: To occupy, to squat is to resist
Across europe, driven by the desire and need to extract maximum profit from urban spaces, authoritarian handmaidens of capital, in the guise of State-democratic authority, turn their violence on those people who are nothing but obstacles to the management of … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, italy, Molotov & Confetti, Okupations
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The gilets jaunes: Jacques Rancière on the virtues of the inexplicable
Beginnings do not reach their end. they remain halfway. But this also means that they never stop beginning over again, even if this means that the actors change. This is the realism of revolt, an inexplicable realism, one that demands … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Fragments of interpretation
The yellow vests: February 9th, Act XIII … We continue to share fragments of reflections, of a movement, or movements, in motion. The yellow vests insurrection(s) is a picture of our future today: the only ethical response possible to permanent … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, Claude Lévi-Strauss, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, myth, revolution
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For Tomi Ungerer: A smiling anarchist
I think I would have been the perfect anarchist. We have too much discipline. You know my triangle of life? It’s very important. It took me years to do it. It’s a triangle with variable angles and one is for … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Creative violence against State brutality
Fear! How long has it been since the ruling classes (of a “developed” country) have feared their poor? The forced gymnastics of the french government’s “great national debate”, supported and secured by a militarised police apparatus whose only red line … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, Security State, State terror, Violence
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The gilets jaunes: The war of images
Everything must be done to preserve the sense of this movement, the originality of the action that is outlined within it, the new freedom that it has already conquered for everyone. No organisation can today pretend to represent alone the … Continue reading
Care as struggle
It is by no means obvious that the history of anarchist politics every owed anything to the speculations of philosophers, even anarchist philosophers. And in like manner, no such politics could ever be read mechanically off a philosophy. Philosophies of … Continue reading →