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Amador Fernández-Savater: To rethink war
From Lobo Suelto! (15/03/2022) … To rethink war, what does it mean? To learn to look at the world strategically. The news, rights, the laws, the speeches, the images… To take them as operations, as forces (of occupation or resistance): … Continue reading
The Invasion Of Ukraine: Anarchist Interventions And Geopolitical Changes
by Peter Gelderloos (It’s Going Down 14/03/2022) … The current war in Ukraine is difficult to grapple with and not only for those of us with friends and comrades who are over there, fighting or surviving, or who have already … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, Peter Gelderloos, russia, ukraine
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Mike Davis: Thanatos Triumphant
From Side Car/New Left Review (07/03/2022). Does hegemony require a grand design? In a world where a thousand gilded oligarchs, billionaire sheiks, and Silicon deities rule the human future, we should not be surprised to discover that greed breeds reptilian … Continue reading
Is pacifism a thing of the past?
A reflection on anti-militarist politics before nation state war, before the russian invasion of ukraine, by Àlex Guillamón, for El salto diario (09/03/2022). Whoever invented the term nation-state surely did not intend to describe reality so literally. But, certainly, today … Continue reading
War in Ukraine: Ten Lessons from Syria
From the CrimethInc. collective (07/03/2022) … Syrian Exiles on How Their Experience Can Inform Resistance to the Invasion In March 2011, protests broke out in Syria against the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Assad turned the full power of the military against … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, russia, syria, ukraine
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Noam Chomsky: US Military Escalation Against Russia Would Have No Victors
An interview with Noam Chomsky, by C.J. Polychroniou for Truthout (o1/03/2022). Russia’s invasion of Ukraine took much of the world by surprise. It is an unprovoked and unjustified attack that will go down in history as one of the major … Continue reading
The View from Ukraine, the View from Russia
From the CrimethInc. collective (05/03/2022), an exile from Donbas and a protester in Russia tell their stories. To help people understand what is taking place in Ukraine and Russia, we present accounts from anarchists in both countries. In the first, … Continue reading
Chiara Bottici: Anarchafeminism
For March 8, we share a rich reflection on “anarchafeminism” by Chiara Bottici, followed by a recorded performance of the same, as well as an earlier lecture on anarchism. 1. Why anarcha-feminism? It has become something of a commonplace to argue that … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarcho-feminism, Chiara Bottici, Feminism, LGBTQ+
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Leo Tolstoy: The moral corruption of patriotism
Thoughts born of a protest march in solidarity with Ukraine … “Patriotism as a feeling of exclusive love for one’s own people, and as a doctrine of the virtue of sacrificing one’s tranquillity, one’s property, and even one’s life, in … Continue reading
Mykhailo Drahomanov: Anarchist echoes from Ukraine’s past
Olenin had entered into the life of the Cossack village so fully that his past seemed quite foreign to him. As to the future, especially a future outside the world in which he was now living, it did not interest … Continue reading →