Category Archives: Commentary

The Kronstadt Uprising: A View from within the Revolt

From the CrimethInc. collective, an excellent review of and reflection on the Kronstadt Rebellion … The Kronstadt Uprising: A View from within the Revolt On the 100-Year Anniversary of the Rebellion In March 1921, an uprising on the island fortress … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (III)

On 1 March, 1921, the Kronstadt Soviet rose in revolt against the regime of the Russian “Communist” Party. The Civil War was effectively over, with the last of the White armies in European Russia defeated in November, 1920. The remaining … Continue reading

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Remembering-living the Paris Commune

The 150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune: A Call from the Gilets Jaunes of Montreuil (From paris-luttes.info 24/02/2020; lundi matin #277, 01/03/2021) The 18th of March, 2021, long live the Commune, and long live the Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests!! On November 17, … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (II)

From Roarmag (01/03/2021) magazine … Recovering the anarchism of the 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion Alexander Herbert The anarchist roots of the Kronstadt Rebellion have long been denied, but the plurality of anti-Bolshevik resistance in Soviet Russia harbors important lessons for movements … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion

From Roarmag (01/03/2021) magazine … “Seventeen dreadful days”: Emma Goldman on the Kronstadt Rebellion On March 1, 1921, a citizen’s assembly in Kronstadt approved the Petropavlovsk Resolution listing 15 demands to the Bolshevik government in Petrograd. This date marks the … Continue reading

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Revolution of Fungal Life

Autonomies has always been much more of a crossroads, and at times, a place of confluence, of thoughts and testimonials of action, of practice and of ways of life, than an ideologically centred collective. If its genealogy harks back to … Continue reading

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Leo Tolstoy remembered against the pandemic

But actually history is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. […] In world history only those peoples that form states can come to our notice. G.W.F. Hegel, General Introduction to the Philosophy … Continue reading

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Brazil: Epicenter of the Virus of Populism

Posted the CrimethInc. collective, anarchist reflections from Brazil (22/02/2021) … Brazil: Epicenter of the Virus of Populism – A Year of Catastrophe and Resistance In the following analysis, anarchists in Brazil examine how the pandemic and rising far-right populism coincide … Continue reading

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Gilles Dauvé: The Year the World Went Viral

Reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic and capitalism, by Gilles Dauvé (posted on trop loin). Without fully embracing Dauvé’s “Marxism”, there is much here for thought … Until the early days of 2020, when they spoke of “viruses”, Westerners usually meant … Continue reading

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Mutual Aid in Puerto Rico

Mutual aid works within the fissures and cracks of state and corporate management; it develops within spaces partially outside the reach of their power. It has the capacity to weave relations of support and autonomy, thereby generating new subjectivities and … Continue reading

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