Category Archives: Commentary

Ian Alan Paul: Fascism and the Spectacle of Death

From Ill Will (10/05/2025) Other languages: Türkçe, Français, Español I Wealth above, and death below: in recent history this arrangement has proven to be remarkably tolerable. Everyone of course is aware that ever more people are immiserated and discarded, that ever … Continue reading

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Octavio Alberola: The existential urgency of our times

Certes, le goût de la vérité n’empêche pas la prise de parti./Of course, a taste for the truth does not preclude taking sides. Albert Camus, “Actuelles I, Le journalisme critique”, Combat, 8 septembre 1944 Octavio Alberola is an anarchist militant, strongly … Continue reading

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David Graeber: Hatred has become a political taboo

A season is set for everything, a time for every experience under heaven: … A time for loving and a time for hating … Ecclesiastes, 3:1,8 By the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, it is … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: The coming middle ages

A passage from Sergio Bettini’s book on L’arte alla fine del mondo antico [Art at the End of the Ancient World] describes a world that is difficult not to recognise as similar to the one we are living in. “The … Continue reading

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Remembering the tradition of the oppressed: The Kwangju Uprising (1980)

It wasn’t as though we didn’t know how overwhelmingly the army outnumbered us. But the strange thing was, it didn’t matter. Ever since the uprising began, I’d felt something coursing through me, as overwhelming as any army. Conscience. Conscience, the … Continue reading

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For Jacques Camatte (1935-2025)

Revolution is now able to pose its true terrain of struggle, whose centre is everywhere, but whose place is nowhere. Its task in this sense is infinite: to destroy domestication and engender the infinite manifestation of the human being of the … Continue reading

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Tomás Ibáñez: Neo-fascism, new totalitarianism and the illusion of the ballot box

We share below a recent talk given by Tomás Ibáñez at the Ateneo Libertario La Idea, Madrid, on the 27th of February. The importance and urgency of its subject matter requires no introduction. (Source: Redes Libertarias, 17/03/2025) I shall begin with … Continue reading

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Simón Royo Hernández: Event and Anarchy: The anarchic event

We publish below an essay generously shared with us by its author, Simón Royo Hernández. Hernández’s work has endeavoured to engage philosophically with the tradition of political anarchism, as others have tried to do, in significant ways. We know that … Continue reading

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi: The Question

From ctxt: Contexto y acción (28/03/2025) and Lobo suelto (28/03/2025) A few days ago I received an invitation from an American association to participate in a conference to be held in Chicago on 5, 6 and 7 April. The theme … Continue reading

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How the UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management

From Freedom News (11/04/2025) Algorithms, facial recognition, and tightening protest laws signal a deepening surveillance state by Blade Runner The UK is expanding its use of predictive policing and surveillance, framing it as a response to crime, protest, and public … Continue reading

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