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Tom Cornell and the Catholic Worker
It would be almost impossible to describe any of the regular participants or contributors to Autonomies as catholic, or christian, or even religious, in any traditional or institutional sense of the latter. And yet we are equally aware of the … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Interview
Tagged Ammon Hennacy, anarchism, anti-militarism, Cornel West, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, religion, revolution, The Catholic Worker, Tom Cornell
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For Albert Woodfox (1947-2022)
In my forties, I chose to take my pain and turn it into compassion, and not hate. Whenever I experienced pain of any origin I always made a promise to myself never to do anything that would cause someone else … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Woodfox, anti-racism, Black Panthers, State terror
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Destituent power as living communism
“To destitute is not primarily to attack the institution, but to attack the need we have of it.” This statement, from the Invisible Committee’s text Now (2016), is at the heart of an essay by Spencer Beswick that we share … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, autonomism, autonomy, germany, Giorgio Agamben, Invisible Committee, revolution
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A portrait of Nestor Makhno
tradition is not to preserve the ashes but to pass on the flame For our times of war, we share a portrait of the anarchist Nestor Makhno, by Alexander Berkman. Nestor Makhno, The Man Who Saved the Bolsheviki: Personal Recollections … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Nestor Makhno, revolution, russia, russian revolution, ukraine
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Errico Malatesta: Lessons for Anarchists Considering the Ukrainian War
We share below an article by Wayne Price reading the war in Ukraine through the work of Errico Malatesta, published in the last issue of Black Flag Anarchist Review and posted at the Anarchist Library website. Malatesta on War and … Continue reading
Reading war and anarchy with Sigmund Freud
The reflection that follows is driven by our own ongoing effort to understand the crises of our time, which now include the war in Ukraine, as well as being inspired by a video interview with Catherine Malabou, which we share … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-militarism, Catherine Malabou, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud
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Of war and revolution: Ukraine
Why is our century worse than any other? Is it that in the stupor of fear and grief It has plunged its fingers in the blackest ulcer, Yet cannot bring relief? Anna Akhmatova, from Plantain (1919) “The main enemy is … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, belarus, revolution, Rosa Luxemburg, russia, ukraine, V.I. Lenin
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Melilla: Eichmann at the border
… it is terrible to inhabit and know a world where eyes are no longer able to give a look – I do not say of love, but even of curiosity or sympathy. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Petrolio Have the moral … Continue reading
The Gezi Resistance, June 2013
Going back to Turkey and the Gezi Park insurrection, and keeping the memory of the latter alive, with the CrimethInc. collective (20/06/2022) … Early on May 28, 2013, a bulldozer arrived in Gezi Park, at the center of Istanbul, and … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, insurrection, Occupy Gezi/Taksim, revolution, State terror, turkey
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Karl Kraus: In these great times … and in our times
To brandish Karl Kraus’ 1914 essay “In these great times” against our own may seem out of place. And in some sense it is, for the First World War is not ours. Yet Kraus condemns not only the war, but … Continue reading →