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The Day the Émigrés Struck Back
From the CrimethInc. collective (05/02/2025) Remembering the General Strike of May Day 2006 In 2006, students around the United States engaged in spontaneous walkouts protesting the repression of undocumented people, culminating on May Day in the first great general strike to take … Continue reading
Parrhesia: To speak freely, with courage, to the tyrant
From Michel Foucault and Right Rev Mariann Edgar Budde: The courage to speak the truth to power. To begin with, what is the general meaning of the word parrhesia? Etymologically, parrhesiazesthai means “to say everything” – from pan … (everything) … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Good and Evil
The old doctrine that evil is merely the deprivation of the good, and therefore does not exist in itself, needs to be corrected and supplemented in the sense that it is not so much the deprivation as the perversion of … Continue reading
A prison letter from Rosa Luxemburg to Sophie Liebknecht; A letter to our present
Rosa Luxemburg: Letters to Sophie Liebknecht Breslau, Mid December, 1917 Karl has been in Luckau prison for a year now. I have been thinking of that so often this month and of how it is just a year since you … Continue reading
Good Night, Tech-Right: Pull the Plug on AI Fascism
From It’s Going Down (26/01/2025) On January 20th, at a ceremony attended by both far-Right and neo-fascist leaders from around the globe and some of the richest tech billionaires in the world, including the heads of Apple, Google, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and Amazon, … Continue reading
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Belarus: No options to choose from
Two texts, from Pramen (26/01/2025) This Sunday, January 26, Lukashenko will appoint himself president of the Republic of Belarus for the seventh time. The only unknown in this whole story is how many percent of the so-called public support will … Continue reading
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Will the real Proudhon please stand up?
From Freedom News (20/01/2025). Instead of anarchist lore, we need historical context and an open mind Shawn P Wilbur It’s challenging to think about Pierre-Joseph Proudhon today: like it or not, we struggle with him in his role as a … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Conjuncture and revolution
Conjuncture and revolution It is a fact on which we should never tire of reflecting that one of the key terms in our political vocabulary – “revolution” – has been taken from astronomy, where it designates the movement of a … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The number of the murdered
The number of the murdered It is necessary to meditate again and again on the passage in Revelation (6:9-11) where we read: “When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The remnant of Israel
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy … Continue reading →