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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (VII)

(On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists. We are posting articles by Alexei Gusev, Samuel Clarke, Paul Le Blanc, Daniel Fischer, and Tom Harrison. -Eds.) Beyond Kronstadt … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (VI)

(On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists. We are posting articles by Alexei Gusev, Samuel Clarke, Paul Le Blanc, Daniel Fischer, and Tom Harrison. -Eds.) Kronstadt, an … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (V)

(On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists. We are posting articles by Alexei Gusev, Samuel Clarke, Paul Le Blanc, Daniel Fischer, and Tom Harrison. -Eds.) The Kronstadt … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (IV)

… anarchism is not an imaginary dream, but a reality which gives logic and a realistic sense to the revolt of the human spirit against violence. To be anarchist one does not have to speak of fictions such as “absolute, … Continue reading

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The Kronstadt Uprising: A View from within the Revolt

From the CrimethInc. collective, an excellent review of and reflection on the Kronstadt Rebellion … The Kronstadt Uprising: A View from within the Revolt On the 100-Year Anniversary of the Rebellion In March 1921, an uprising on the island fortress … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (III)

On 1 March, 1921, the Kronstadt Soviet rose in revolt against the regime of the Russian “Communist” Party. The Civil War was effectively over, with the last of the White armies in European Russia defeated in November, 1920. The remaining … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (II)

From Roarmag (01/03/2021) magazine … Recovering the anarchism of the 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion Alexander Herbert The anarchist roots of the Kronstadt Rebellion have long been denied, but the plurality of anti-Bolshevik resistance in Soviet Russia harbors important lessons for movements … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion

From Roarmag (01/03/2021) magazine … “Seventeen dreadful days”: Emma Goldman on the Kronstadt Rebellion On March 1, 1921, a citizen’s assembly in Kronstadt approved the Petropavlovsk Resolution listing 15 demands to the Bolshevik government in Petrograd. This date marks the … Continue reading

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“Let the dead rest – and fulfill their hopes”: Remembering Erich Mühsam

Anarchy is a matter of the heart … Erich Mühsam, Anarchy From Freedom News (10/07/2024), we share a memorial piece by Maurice Schuhmann dedicated to the life and work of the anarchist Erich Mühsam. We follow this with what is … Continue reading

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From Revolution to Destitution

We are confronted with an expansion of the revolution that reaches the point of becoming something else. Today’s uprisings point toward an anthropological and no longer merely a political revolution, in which Marx’s distinction between political and social revolution begins … Continue reading

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