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Élisée Reclus: The ecology of beauty
There where land becomes ugly, where all poetry disappears from the landscape, imaginations are extinguished, spirits are impoverished, routine and servility overtake the soul and set it on the path to torpor and death. Élisée Reclus, Concerning the Awareness of … Continue reading
Lebanon: The state of things
From lundi matin #250, 23/07/2020 … Will the confinement and the ceasefire get the better of the Lebanese uprising? Will the omnipresence of security be able to bridge the chasm into which the population seems to sink deeper every day? … Continue reading
1936, the revolution of those without a name
Remembering a revolution in spain, 1936 (A translation of a short commemorative-reflective text by Marc Dalmau, in El Salto Diario 18/07/2020) … The events of July 18, 19 and 20, 1936 constitute one of the most over-interpreted events in our … Continue reading
Learning From Portland
By Black Flag Catalyst (Anarchist Library 16/07/2020) … Foreword My city: Portland, Oregon is currently under siege from an occupying force. Make no mistake in assuming the state will hesitate to occupy other cities with their militant, violent force, for … Continue reading
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Tagged insurrection, Security State, State and terror, united states
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The Philippines: Rule by terror
From the Crimethinc. Collective … The New Terror Bill in the Philippines: Another Front in the Worldwide Struggle against Tyranny (19/07/2020) Yesterday, a new “anti-terror” law went into effect in the Philippines, marking another stage in the worldwide rise of … Continue reading
Morir un poco/To die a little
To be obliged to work will always be to die a little. To enrich others, to obey disgusting bosses, to run so as not to be late, to pretend to smile, to receive starvation wages: everything kills. To lose moments … Continue reading
Abel Paz (1921-2009): Memories of intensity, reflections on anarchy
Life, or the memory of peoples, cannot be measured by the number of years lived, but by life’s moments of intensity. We won the revolution, what we lost was the war. The revolution consisted in the fact that the workers … Continue reading
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Tagged Abel Paz, anarchism, Raoul Vaneigem, revolution, the spanish revolution
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The Cop-Free Zone
From the CrimethInc. Collective (02/07/2020)… The Cop-Free Zone: Reflections from Experiments in Autonomy around the US The cop-free zone is not the particular block or traffic circle or park. It is the shared commitment to defending a space and eliminating … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-racism, autonomy, insurrection, Occupations, occupy the city, Okupations, united states
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Christian Jesús Ferrer: Anarchism, the antipodal star
A short and eloquent reflection on the meaning of “anarchism”, by Christian Jesús Ferrer (El Lokal) … There is nothing more mysterious than the fate of anarchism, an ideal that might seem exaggerated if it were not so extremely sensible. … Continue reading
Dignity: On The George Floyd Rebellion
From It’s going down (06/08/2020) … A look at both the historical context within the George Floyd rebellion and how current experiments within it might expand. The storming of the Third Precinct lifted the veil of fear. As it went … Continue reading →