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Russia: The Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization
From the CrimethInc. collective (22/08/2022) … When the Russian military invaded Ukraine at the end of February 2022, anarchists and other anti-war demonstrators defied draconian anti-protest measures to take the streets to express opposition. Over the months since those protests were crushed, resistance to … Continue reading
Reading the past through the present: Marx and Engels on the Crimean War
Let us rather observe this lad of ten, clad in an ancient cap, his father’s probably, shoes worn on bare feet, and nankeen breeches, held up by a single suspender, who had climbed over the wall at the very beginning … Continue reading
Enzo Traverso: Revolutions are still breathing life into history
Historian Enzo Traverso on his latest book, Revolution: An Intellectual History. The interview originally appeared in the Alias section of il manifesto, 9 July 2022 and was published in the Verso books blog, 01/08/2022, translated by David Broder. “Revolution — without icons and without capital letters … Continue reading
Remembering Howard Zinn
My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, Howard Zinn, marxism, revolution
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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
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
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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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The solutions are already here with Peter Gelderloos: A podcast
Follow the link below to an excellent discussion around Peter Gelderloos’ essay, The Solutions are Already Here. Peter Gelderloos joins us again to discuss his recent book “The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below”. The conversation … Continue reading →