Category Archives: Commentary

Ian Alan Paul: Liberal Infernos

From Ill Will (27/04/2024) … The liberal order overseeing and administering the genocide in Palestine is built upon the marriage of egalitarian values and exterminating violence, upon the intimate coupling of supposedly hallowed rights and the hell it unleashes upon … Continue reading

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Portugal: The revolution of 1974-1975

The Portuguese experience between 1974 and 1976 shows that revolutionary activity does not develop as the result of strategies devised by system analysts or bourgeois planners … It emerges in the course of the struggle itself, and its most advanced … Continue reading

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The geopolitics of carnage

By Frédéric Neyrat (of the collective Contre-Ciel), published in lundi matin #425 (22/04/2024) That we can no longer say “free Palestine” without being qualified as terrorists, that the signifier Palestine is now banned, is often interpreted as a “fascist” or … Continue reading

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April 1964-April 2024: The origins of a symbol

We publish below a pamphlet generously shared with us by Tomás Ibáñez that tells the story of the circled A as an anarchist symbol, a symbol whose 60th anniversary falls on this year.

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Catherine Malabou: There was no revolution

We learned from a recent interview with Catherine Malabou by the Lundi Matin collective (for their Lundi Soir series of video recorded interviews – see below) that she has published a new work centred on Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s essay, What is … Continue reading

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The Whitening of European Jews and the Misuse of Holocaust Memory

In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the formation of Israel, Jews’ position in the Global North transformed from racialized minority into fully white members of “Judeo-Christian” society. As Gilbert Achcar shows in this essay, however, this assimilation into “super whiteness” … Continue reading

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Ghassan Salhab: The dance of death

From lundimatin, #421, 25/03/2024 … No, we do not want to catch up with anyone. But what we want is to walk in the company of man, every man, night and day, for all times. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: The experience of language is a political experience

From Quodlibet (16/02/2024) … How would it be possible to really change the society and culture in which we live? Reforms and even revolutions, although they transform institutions and laws, relations of production and objects, do not question those deeper … Continue reading

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After Pantin: Judith Butler

From the Verso Books Blog (14/03/20249 … In response to remarks they gave at an event in Paris earlier this month, Judith Butler has received hate mail while Zionist publications have attacked them. In this article, Butler defends and clarifies their position. … Continue reading

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Für das Leben, gegen den Tod/For life, against death

From Freedom News (12/03/2024) … Writing from Vienna, Christopher Hütmannsberger grapples with the current state of confusion in the German-speaking Left around the genocide currently unfolding in Gaza and argues that this is a litmus test for understanding how people … Continue reading

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