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The Paris Commune: Franco “Bifo” Berardi
A second interview from the Planetary Commune project, an interview with “Bifo” on the Paris Commune of 1871 and its present resonances.
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Tagged Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Paris Commune, revolution
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The Paris Commune: Antonio Negri
An interview with Antonio Negri by Niccolò Cuppini, as part of the Planetary Commune project. (The interview is also available in spanish and french). However much we may hesitate before Negri’s Marxism – his almost exclusive attention to Marxist theorisations … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, occupy the city, Paris Commune, revolution, Toni Negri
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Lautréamont: Poetic-political resonances
Jusqu’à nos temps, la poésie fit une route fausse; s’élevant jusqu’au ciel ou rampant jusqu’à terre, elle a méconnu les principes de son existence, et a été, non sans raison, constamment bafouée par les honnêtes gens. Elle n’a pas été … Continue reading
Capitalism is the pandemic: María Galindo
María Galindo shared this text with the media collective Lavaca (13/02/2021) and the magazine MU (both attached to the Universidad de Lavaca, argentina) , a text without prophetic ambitions, but which rather tries to think about the post-pandemic from a position of … Continue reading
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Tagged bolivia, María Galindo, Security State, State and Capital, State and terror
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David Graeber: After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep
From Jacobin magazine … In an essay penned shortly before his death, David Graeber argued that post-pandemic, we can’t slip back into a reality where the way our society is organized — to serve every whim of a small handful … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: William Morris
The revolution itself will raise those for whom the revolution must be made. From William Morris … Why We Celebrate the Commune of Paris (Source: “Why We Celebrate the Commune of Paris Commonweal, Vol 3, No. 62, 19 March 1887, p. 89-90; Transcribed: by … Continue reading
Syria: Remembering a revolution
We are no less than the Paris commune workers: they resisted for 70 days and we are still going on for a year and a half. Omar Aziz, 2012 The “Arab Spring” as revolution risks falling into oblivion, reduced to … Continue reading
For Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021)
Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although I am out of prison, I continue to live inside a prison of another sort, one without steel … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Situationist International
“…it is time we examine the Commune not just as an outmoded example of revolutionary primitivism, all of whose mistakes can easily be overcome, but as a positive experiment whose whole truth has yet to be rediscovered and fulfilled.“ The … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Paris Commune, revolution, Situationists
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Amedeo Bertolo: The subversive weed
In the 1970s, Amedeo Bertolo engaged with newly emergent political concepts and movements which seemed both to recuperate older anarchist thought and practice, as well as to leave anarchism behind. For Bertolo, the concern was not to dismiss the new … Continue reading →