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The Paris Commune: Louise Michel
Anarchy is not a new idea; writers long before Saint-Just believed that a person who makes himself a leader commits a crime. Louise Michel It is not possible to read Louise Michel’s memoires without being swept away by the passion … Continue reading
The Paris Commune
To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that’s the point. Arthur Rimbaud We share the words and sentiment of Mitchel Abidor, when he writes that the “Paris Commune of 1871 has been a blank screen … Continue reading
For March 8: Feminist voices from latin america
The La Tinta media collective, with the support of the The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, has produced an excellent series of video interviews with feminist writers and activists from across latin america; feminist’s who speak in many voices and who take … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-racism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, Feminism, LGBTQ+, patriarchy
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Rita Segato: Reading patriarchy
It will be necessary to shake the fantasy of the state, the fantasy of law, the safe harbor and terra firma sustaining the patriarchal and state certainties that impede our advancement. It will be necessary, for example, to reexamine the unachievable, inclusive formula of … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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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Tagged anarchism, Emma Goldman, Kronstadt Rebellion, russian revolution
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The Paris Commune: Mikhail Bakunin
I am a supporter of the Paris Commune, which for all the bloodletting it suffered at the hands of monarchical and clerical reaction, has nonetheless grown more enduring and more powerful in the hearts and minds of Europe’s proletariat. I … Continue reading →