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Ron Sakolsky: Out of the fog
From Fifth Estate #416, Spring 2025 On Jan. 1, 2024, the city of San Francisco sent New Year’s greetings to its beleaguered citizens with the cheery news that a suicide net had been installed under the Golden Gate Bridge thanks … Continue reading
For Marcel Ophuls (1927-1925)
He [Eichmann] was not stupid. It was sheer thoughtlessness – something by no means identical with stupidity – that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is “banal” and even funny, if … Continue reading
For Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025)
What I most want my pictures to do is to lead to reflection and then action. The revolution only comes through evolution. Sebastião Salgado (British Journal of Photography, 24/05/2025) “I photographed the world”, Sebastião Salgado once said. And we could … Continue reading
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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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, Capital, capitalism, Ian Alan Paul, Jacques Rancière, Walter Benjamin
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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
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
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
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
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
Anarchists in the Movement against Police and White Supremacy
From the CrimethInc. collective 28/05/2025 From the Los Angeles Riots to the George Floyd Uprising To observe the five-year anniversary of the burning of the Third Precinct at the beginning of the George Floyd Revolt, we have prepared a timeline tracing the trajectory … Continue reading →