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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 …
For James Morris Lawson Jr. (1928-2024)
A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation of life, not of death. Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics I think that we have to lay the seeds by which we can take government … Continue reading
The disaster has a name: Capitalism
From the Antimídia collective of Brazil, a short video documentary report-essay on the floods of early May this year, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and the popular collective responses to the catastrophe, more often than not in … Continue reading
From Revolution to Destitution
We are confronted with an expansion of the revolution that reaches the point of becoming something else. Today’s uprisings point toward an anthropological and no longer merely a political revolution, in which Marx’s distinction between political and social revolution begins … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimé Césaire, autonomism, Colectivo Situaciones, Enzo Traverso, François Lyotard, Frantz Fanon, George Jackson, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, Karl Korsch, Marcello Tarì, Mario Tronti, Michel Foucault, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, revolt, revolution, Situationists, Walter Benjamin
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Freedom and Joy with Uma Kiwe
From Ill Will (19/05/2024) … What we are going to do is to plant ourselves in a new time. This is the stage that the Nasa people have entered with the liberation of Mother Earth. It is the Earth that … Continue reading
Franz Kafka
… Kafka tears open the sky behind every gesture; but … the gesture remains the decisive thing, the center of the event. Walter Benjamin, “Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of his Death” We mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s … Continue reading
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 →