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Bertolt Brecht: Writing the Truth – Five Difficulties (1935)
Fascism can be combated as capitalism alone, as the nakedest, most shameless, most oppressive, and most treacherous form of capitalism. Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. … Continue reading
India: A 100 years of liberal fascist solitude
From lundi matin (#434, 24/06/2024), an interview (largely in English) with the Indian anthropologist, Alpa Shah. As a complement to this interview and to Alpa Shah’s work, we also share a series lectures, other interviews and links to articles. Her … Continue reading
Against Liberal Fascism
War conducted by states against “communitarianism.” Implosion of popular communities. Negligence toward the weaving of our interdependences. And then, as if this social disaster wasn’t deep enough, emancipators who have nothing better to propose than the prisons of identity politics. … Continue reading
The Collapse of Zionism
From the New Left Review/Sidecar blog, we share a short article by Ilan Pappé (21/06/2024). Hamas’s assault of October 7 can be likened to an earthquake that strikes an old building. The cracks were already beginning to show, but they … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-statism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, Ilan Pappe, israel, palestine
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What is dual power?
Via It’s Going Down Video mini-documentary from subMedia.Tv on the anarchist concept of dual power. Dual Power, sometimes referred to as counter-power, is a stage in a revolutionary movement where two competing political frameworks occupy the same space. For anti-state revolutionaries this implies … Continue reading
The Strategy of Separation
The main takeaway is this: if we find at the core of the French Revolution — “mother to all of us,” as Kropotkin says — the main currents of the later revolutionary movement, first and foremost the libertarian and the … Continue reading
Radical Reprint: The Ludlow Strike
From Freedom News (16/06/2024) In June 1914 much of that month’s edition of Freedom was given over to a lengthy analysis in the aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre, one of the most infamous strikebreaking incidents in United States history. The mass killing of striking coal … Continue reading
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Tagged Ludlow Massacre, strikes, working class struggle
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For John Burnside (1955-2024)
For John Burnside, “anarchist” poet and writer, who died this last month of May. … a true anarchist … [does] … not need a glorious leader, or leaders, to save us from the nightmare. What we need, each of us, … Continue reading
Judith Butler: Fascist Passions
Judith Butler at the University of Bologna (07/05/2024); an urgent intervention for our times …
Franco “Bifo” Berardi: Impotence, dementia, nihilism
From Lobo Suelto (28/06/2024) … We saw the two flabby gladiators fight each other like exhausted fighting dogs for the amusement of millions of spectators who must decide which of the two deserves to be president of a nation that … Continue reading →