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No escaping the state: the story of Lovett Fort-Whiteman
From Roarmag (13/01/2021), a reflection on the limits of the State as a vehicle for anti-racism, by William C. Anderson. The life of a Black radical who fled state violence in the US only to find it under a different … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-racism, anti-statism, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Soviet Union, State socialism, William C. Anderson
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“Anarchism” is just a name- a review of Anarchism and the Black Revolution and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
From Freedom Press (13/01/2021), a review of two recently published essays: Anarchism and the Black Revolution, by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin (Pluto Press) and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, by William Anderson (AK Press). In Summer 2017, … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, black anarchism, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, William Anderson
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Shane Burley: Building Communities for a Fascist-Free Future
(From Roarmag magazine online and the 2021, 11th paper issue of Roar Magazine) The challenge for antifascists today is to build the capacity to act as a buffer for marginalized communities and the movements fighting for a new world. On August 17, 2019, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, mutual aid, Shane Burley, united states
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Forgotten Fighters: American Anarchist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
From the The Volunteer, the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade website, an excellent article (30/08/2017), by Kenyon Zimmer, on North American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War/Revolution. Among the almost 3,000 foreign anarchists who fought in the Spanish Civil … Continue reading
A tour of the CNT positions during the Civil War
We share below an important text on the changing positions of the anarchist CNT labour union during the Spanish Civil War/Revolution, published at Alasbarricadas (11/12/2021) and published in English at Anarkismo.net (20/12/2021). [We have made only minor revisions to the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, CNT, revolution, spain, the spanish revolution
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Travis Wilkerson: An Injury to One (film)
It may be said that the “working class”, in political struggles throughout the emergence and expansion of capitalism, was epochal. We use the word here in its ancient Greek sense. The Greek word epokhe meant “stoppage, fixed point of time,” from epekhein “to … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-syndicalism, anti-capitalism, Frank Little, I.W.W., labour, Travis Wilkerson
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Carlo Levi: A witness to freedom
… all history unfolds in every individual life. Of course this only happens when history does unfold, because it can also stop, or turn backward or spin emptily on its own axis like a mechanical top. Carlo Levi, The Watch … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-fascism, autonomy, Carlo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, italy
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Giorgio Agamben: Our task is to think, together
I believe that it is not certain that we can continue to do as we have done so far, that is, to fight or act in the name of principles and concepts such as democracy, the constitution, law, which perhaps … Continue reading
Lessons of the Covid mutual aid projects
Whatever may be the shortcomings of my study, it will make [any revolutionary who reads it] reflect on the necessity of bringing to the next revolution a set of constructive ideas (as well as destructive ones), of thinking them through carefully and … Continue reading
Jacques Rancière: Seven rules to help with the diffusion of racist ideas in france
With french presidential elections upon us (and with other european elections scheduled for this year), we share a short, but timely, piece by Jacques Rancière, on the less than surreptitious ways in which racism is played upon and promoted in … Continue reading →