Category Archives: Commentary

Fredy Perlman: Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom

It galls me that a new Fascism should choose to use the experience of the victims of the earlier Fascism among its justifications. Fredy Perlman We return to the work of Fredy Perlman, this time with the Israeli genocide of … Continue reading

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2023 in Chile: 50 Years of the Military Coup

From the CrimethInc. collective (07/03/2024). Neoliberal Consolidation after the Revolt of 2019 In 2019, an uprising broke out in Chile, wresting control of the streets from police and politicians. Eventually, the authorities managed to redirect this momentum into an effort to replace … Continue reading

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The Politics of Women’s Blues

We share two texts on women’s blues as a radical questioning of sex, gender and race in the racist and hetero-patriarchal social relations of the United States. In the first, which provides the title to our post, Hazel V. Carby … Continue reading

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For March 8: Gender is a Weapon

Gender is a Weapon: Coercion, domination and self-determination Sally Darity (From The Anarchist Library) I was on the bus recently, and a guy about my age got on the bus and sat across from me. He and some others were … Continue reading

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For March 8: Ruth Kinna – Anarchism and Feminism

(Published version in Nathan Jun (ed.) Brill’s Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy. Thanks to Raffaella Bianchi, Kathy Ferguson and Bice Maiguashca for enormously helpful comments on an earlier draft of this chapter.) Introduction The conjunction of anarchism and feminism can be understood … Continue reading

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For March 8: Emma Goldman

What is There in Anarchy for Women? Emma Goldman (Published on St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 24, 1897) “What does anarchy hold out to me—a woman?” “More to woman than to anyone else—everything which she has not—freedom and equality.”

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The Ecological Crisis and the Rise of Post-Fascism

From Ill Will, an essay authored by the Antithesi collective (18/02/2024) … Other languages: Türkçe, Español The ecological crisis profoundly impacts the material conditions of social reproduction, extending beyond “natural disasters” to encompass a deepening of the contradictions inherent in … Continue reading

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For Edward Bond (1934-2024)

SAGA I asked the man at the crossroads why are you waitingHe said I have no shoes on my feetMy stomach is emptyMy dwelling is repossessedA man In a nice suit with heraldic cufflinks stole my walletAnd my coat is … Continue reading

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Yazan Alloujami: Gaza-on-the-Rhine, a history lesson

From lundimatin, #418, 04/03/2024 … To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it really was’ (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. Historical … Continue reading

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The anarchy of dance/the dance of anarchism

A little wisdom is no doubt possible; but I have found this happy certainty in all things: that they prefer—to dance on the feet of chance. Friedrich Nietzsche, This Spoke Zarathustra [Contact improvisation] came out of Grand Union. We were in … Continue reading

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