Category Archives: Commentary

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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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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