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Vanishing points in working class culture: Miguel Amorós
As a complement to our last post “Revolution imagined outside history”, we share an essay by the anarchist militant-writer Miguel Amorós on the possibility of revolution after the “death of the working class”.
Revolution imagined outside history
Utopia of a Tired Man Borges story Illustration by Federico Abuyé The chronicler, who recounts events without distinguishing between the great and small, thereby accounts for the truth, that nothing which has ever happened is to be given as … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, Jorge Luis Borges, revolution, time, Walter Benjamin
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In a rebellious month of May, reflections on militant autonomy
Radical political militancy is never intellectually unarmed, for it always assumes some understanding of what it contests and of how it can or should be overcome. It also carries with it some idea of what is to follow the detested … Continue reading
Peter Linebaugh: May Day from the “longue durée”
To read May Day historically is not only to take us back to the late 19th century working class struggles for a shorter workday, but also to see that this day was far more than a fight for better working … Continue reading
For May 68 as a permanent possibility, for a May 2018
Numerous calls have been made in france not to celebrate May 68, but to have it burn again in 2018. These calls have in turn been circulated beyond france. From lespaves.net, an invitation for a beautiful May in Paris …
The winds of May 68 in France: the Larzac
An often forgotten or ignored dimension of May 68 were france’s peasant movements, which preceded 1968 and would continue after the student movement and general strike came to an end. The Larzac protest and land occupation against government plans to … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, Joseph Bové, Larzac, May 68, Occupy the Land
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The winds of May 68 in France: The LIP factory takeover
France’s May of 1968 brought on the largest industrial strike in the history of modern capitalism. What began as a student movement quickly overflowed the walls of the universities to spread throughout french society, with hundreds of factories not only … Continue reading
Finding our way in the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes with the words of Miguel Amorós
A March 2018 interview in which Miguel Amorós discusses his anti-development concepts, the global trend towards mega-urbanization, the destructive tendencies of capitalist development, Latin American populist governments and their social basis, the civil society movement, and perspectives for a movement … Continue reading
With the war on the ZADs as horizon, a reflection on wilderness
A day will come when all the imaginary lines will be blown away, and in the scattering dust of all the maps made meaningless, all things will be left equal once again. Pray for calamity We do not know if … Continue reading
An anarchist reading of the Nicaraguan rebellion
From the CrimethInc collective (06/05/2018)…