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Amador Fernández-Savater: The reactionary wave and the death drive
From Lobo Suelto! (25/06/2023) … Sólo el amor nos permite escapar de la repetición Jorge Luis Borges What does “the reactionary wave” mean globally and here in Spain? How to understand this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, in order to better … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, anti-fascism, love and anarchy, Podemos, Sigmund Freud, spain
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Ghassan Salhab: If only one wall should remain
From lundimatin #389 (27/06/2023) … To revolutionise ourselves [Révolution sur nous-mêmes]. These three words appeared for the very first time in downtown Beirut, the last two words, about ourselves, had been added to the word revolution, which was already stencilled … Continue reading
Remembering Brazil’s Days of Struggle (2013)
A reflection on Brazil‘s 2013 popular uprising from the CAB (Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira/Brazilian Anarchist Coordination) … Defending 2013 as an experience of popular struggle! (CAB 22/06/2023) Marking 10 years since the 2013 Days of Struggle, part of the forces of … Continue reading
Simone Weil: La Personne et le sacré/Human Personality
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
Beware the wealthy who speak of changing the world
On the even of summit called The New Global Financing Pact, an open letter to the world appears … We are urgently working to deliver more for people and the planet. … We are urgently working to fight poverty and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Carnegie, anti-capitalism, capitalism, Peter Gelderloos
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From Ukraine to Palestine: The Poisons of Denialism
by David Finkel (Against the Current) Exploding over the past year, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s escalating violence and ethnic cleansing in Palestine have become two centers of a deepening global crisis. For the international left, the Ukraine … Continue reading
“Anti-Sex” and the Real Sexual Politics of the Right
by Lee Shevek (butchanarchy.medium.com/The Anarchist Library) So common is the conceptualization of reactionaries as having “anti-sex” politics that it is hardly remarked upon. They hate sex workers, they hate it when women and other marginalized genders have a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarcho-feminism, Feminism, LGBTQ+, sexuality
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Remembering the Stonewall riots of 1969
… if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves (compare Rep.), they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all … Continue reading
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Tagged insurrection, Judith Butler, LGBTQ+, revolt, revolution, Stonewall Riots
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Ukraine: Voices of resistance
Step forward: we hearThat you are a good man.You cannot be bought, but the lightningWhich strikes the house, alsoCannot be bought.You hold to what you said.But what did you say?You are honest, you say your opinion.Which opinion?You are brave.Against whom?You … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, anti-nationalism, Fredy Perlman, nationalism, russia, ukraine
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Reading Fredy Perlman with Uri Gordon
We share a timely and critical reading of Fredy Perlman’s work by Uri Gordon … Leviathan’s Body: Recovering Fredy Perlman’s anarchist social theory Uri Gordon (Anarchist Library and Anarchist Studies (2023)) Abstract Fredy Perlman’s anarchist maximalism had a formative influence on … Continue reading →