Category Archives: Commentary

Snapshots from the Uprising

From the CrimethInc. Collective (17/06/2020) … Snapshots from the Uprising: Accounts from Three Weeks of Countrywide Revolt In the following analysis, we review the series of movements that led to the uprising in response to the murder of George Floyd, … Continue reading

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Losing face in a pandemic

Le visage est présent dans son refus d’être contenu./The face is present in its refusal to be contained. Emmanuel Levinas, Totalité et infini To be or not to be masked? Depending on the jurisdiction, this remains a choice before the … Continue reading

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Black Lives Matter and Justice for George Floyd Uprisings: This is anarchy

From the CrimethInc. Collective (09/06/2020) … This Is Anarchy: Eight Ways the Black Lives Matter and Justice for George Floyd Uprisings Reflect Anarchist Ideas in Action Since Minneapolis police brutally murdered George Floyd on May 25, 2020, demonstrations have exploded across the … Continue reading

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The Minneapolis Uprising

To hell or utopia: The Minneapolis uprising Christopher Scott Thompson (Gods and Radical Press 10/06/2020) “Rather than running off as the police intended, the protesters stood their ground. When they were forced back by tear gas, they advanced again as … Continue reading

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Renzo Novatore: The anarchy of life

From Distinctively Dionysian … New Renzo Novatore and Bruno Filippi translations Bonsoir. There are twelve new Renzo Novatore writings, never before in English, now included in Distinctively Dionysian’s remaining spring ’20 issues. Due to the volume of new translations of … Continue reading

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black anarchism

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. James Baldwin, Down at the Cross The Anarchist movement in North America is overwhelmingly white, middle class, and for the most part, pacifist so the question … Continue reading

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COVID-1984: Power, control and the struggle for freedom

From antimidia (brazil) posted with koletiva.media … The struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic has been used by different governments to implement a variety of means of social control and to increase the powers of the police. Yes, the threat of … Continue reading

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Mutual Aid in Cape Town

Mutual aid is a response to crisis born within the cracks of regimes of State-Capital. It is also that which allows the creation of ties and bonds, of social relations, outside commodity and spectacle mediation. It is that which can … Continue reading

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United States: Facing counter-insurgency in times of riots

Counterinsurgency: dousing the flames of Minneapolis Peter Gelderloos (Roarmag 04/06/2020) As people rise up against police violence and structural racism, what counterinsurgency techniques is the state deploying to attack and undermine the movement? The uprising that has spread across the … Continue reading

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From riot to revolution: Protest as self-defense and mutual aid

Reflecting on the protests following the murder of George Floyd and as an historical example of mutual aid in African-American political history, a moment from the history of the Black Panther Party.

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