Category Archives: Commentary

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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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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