Category Archives: Commentary

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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Tunisia: Rebellions, past and present

News and reflections from Tunisia shared with the CrimethInc. collective (09/02/2021) and a video called “Ten“, a record of some of the many voices of Tunisia’s rebellions produced by the Nawaat news magazine … Ten – Ten years after Tunisia’s … Continue reading

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Remembering a rebel: Peter Kropotkin

Educated men — “civilized,” as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or jailers. But, frankly, do you need them as much as you have been told … Continue reading

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For Cecilia Mangini (1927-2021)

Italian photographer and documentary film director Cecilia Mangini died on January 21. What follows is a modest tribute to an artisan-artist for whom the making of images was always an act of engagement with her subjects and her audience.

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A political reflection on love

For the principle which ought to be the guide of men who would nobly live—that principle, I say, neither kindred, nor honour, nor wealth, nor any other motive is able to implant so well as love. Of what am I … Continue reading

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Reading the times with Jacques Rancière: The January 6 assault on the Capitol

From the Verso Books blog (for the English language translation) and originally published on Analyse Opinion Critque. Witnessing the assault on the Capitol, it may seem surprising to see Trump’s supporters relentlessly denying the facts to the point of sinking … Continue reading

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