Category Archives: Commentary

The world returns: Outlines of an anti-politics

We share below an essay by Josep Rafanell i Orra, published with lundi matin #252 (31/08/2020) … Vertiginous ecological collapses. Liberal-fascist governmentality, from Bolsonaro to Macron. How to confront the disaster? Are we condemned to resuscitate new scenarios of political … Continue reading

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Mutual aid in poland

We share a second account in a series on mutual aid in the times of the Covid-19 pandemic from the CrimethInc. Collective, this time from poland. There is much to learn from and respect in such mutual aid initiatives. A … Continue reading

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Covid-19: An invisible agent of catastrophe

We share below a very free and partial translation (interspersed with paraphrases and summaries) of Donatella Di Ceasare’s essay, Virus Sovrano? L’Asfissia Capitalistica (Bollati Boringhieri Editore, 2020). A forthcoming English language edition is to be published by MIT Press in … Continue reading

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Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?

That things are “status quo” is the catastrophe. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project It is the interdependent ensemble of our technicised world – which is literally the humanly created world and at the same time the world of a virtually … Continue reading

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Why we don’t vote

Everything that can be said about the suffrage may be summed up in a sentence. To vote is to give up your own power. To elect a master or many, for a long or short time, is to resign one’s … Continue reading

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Colectivo Situaciones: Complete works

The posting by the online website lobo suelto! of an archive of the writings the argentine based Colectivo Situaciones, is the occasion to return to the “theoretical” work of this group and its “reflection” in the 2001-3 insurrection in the … Continue reading

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The Belarus insurrection

From the CrimethInc. Collective … Belarus: Anarchists in the Uprising against the Dictatorship: An Interview Starting on the night of Sunday, August 9, in response to an election widely deemed to be rigged, a massive protest movement has broken out … Continue reading

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For Stuart Christie (1946-2020)

Anarchism swept us away completely, because it demanded everything of us and promised everything to us. There was no remote corner of life that it did not illumine … or so it seemed to us … shot though with contradictions, … Continue reading

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Kutuzov: For a destituent strategy today

From lundi matin #249, 29/06/2020 … “Even those who denounce the permanent state of emergency do not hesitate to repeat the same slogans, to make the same appeals as the “decision-makers”, who now work shamelessly and in the open for … Continue reading

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Remembering Martin Sostre

To return to past struggles, to recall those who gave their life to them, is not to engage in museumification or idol worship. It is to remember today that those pasts remain our present, that those who fought are still … Continue reading

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