Category Archives: Commentary

Chile: “no hay revolución sin canciones”

As a person, I pay for what I say. … Refusal has always been a very important act carried out by saints and hermits but also by intellectuals. The very few people who made history are those who said no, … Continue reading

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Anarchism in Chile

This is the fourth of a short series that we dedicate to the memory of Chile’s revolutionaries on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup d’état against the Chilean revolution and the government of Salvador Allende. … Continue reading

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Chile: Anatomy of an economic miracle, 1970-1986

We share below an article debunking myths about Chilean dictator General Pinochet’s supposed “economic miracle.” This is the third of a short series that we dedicate to the memory of Chile’s revolutionaries on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading

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Chile, September 11, 1973

This September 11th marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup d’état against the government of Salvador Allende. We mark the event in memory of all of those who both within and outside the political institutions of Allende’s “democratically elected”, … Continue reading

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Occupy as Rupture

We share an interview with Matt Peterson, by Amogh Sahu, published with The Institute of Anarchist Studies (August 24, 2023). The decade we have left behind, the 2010s, was described by the British journalist Paul Mason as a time where … Continue reading

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Thinking with Mario Tronti

We continue to share material by and about the work of Mario Tronti, in the wake of his recent death. We share a short but excellent essay by Mårten Björk on the trajectory of Tronti’s thought (from NLR/Sidecar 25/08/2023). Embracing … Continue reading

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Leo Tolstoy: Must It Be So?

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: “Why am I being hurt?” harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why … Continue reading

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Learning from the Flames

Reflections on the June 2023 revolt in France, from the CrimethInc. collective (09/08/2023) … On June 2023, in the city of Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, police brutally murdered a teenager named Nahel Merzouk, continuing a pattern of post-colonial violence … Continue reading

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Mario Tronti: Through the imperative to understand

The revolutions of the twentieth century did not fail because of their excessive rigidity, but because of their excessive suppleness: not by reason of their refusal of the late Modern, but because of their poor adaptation to it. The limit … Continue reading

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Mario Tronti: On destituent power

For Mario Tronti, from the Ill Will collective (22/05/2022) … In his influential 2008 interview with Adriano Vinale, Mario Tronti provides some of the earliest speculations on the possibility of a destituent power. Below we present the first English edition … Continue reading

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