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For Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don’t love your eyes; they’d just … Continue reading
Anarchafeminist Manifesto
Voices of revolutionary feminism … The origin of the Anarchafeminist Manifesto is in Norway. The Anarchafeminist Manifesto is the summary of the feminist political program unanimously agreed upon by the third congress of the Anarchist Federation of Norway, 1—7 of … Continue reading
Anarcho-Feminism: Two Statements
Voices of revolutionary feminism … The Anarcho-Feminist Manifesto was written by Chicago Anarcho-Feminists. Blood of the Flower was written by Red Rosia and Black Maria of Black Rose Anarcho-Feminists, who in 1971 could be reached c/o The Women’s Centre, 46 Pleasant Street, Cambridge … Continue reading
Peggy Kornegger: Anarchism: The Feminist Connection
Destroy capitalism. End patriarchy. Smash heterosexism. All are obviously essential tasks in the building of a new and truly human world. Marxists, other socialists, social anarchists, feminists – all would agree. But what the socialist, and even some feminists, leave … Continue reading
Sabotaging gender, feminism and capital
We share below an essay by a friend of Autonomies, a conference paper presented at the CIEG II International Congress: Gender, Feminist and Woman’s Studies: Reflexivity, Resistance and Action (July 24-26), at the ISCSP – Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Feminism, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Louis Althusser, Silvia Federici, suffragettes, Virginia Woolf
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Élisée Reclus: Why We Are Anarchists
There is morality only in freedom. Élisée Reclus We share a text by Élisée Reclus that is perhaps ageless. (From Robert Graham’s Anarchist Weblog).
Looking back-forward at the gilets jaunes: A taking stock
We share an unfinished debate on the yellow vests’ movement, on what is or was radical within it, and where it failed, if indeed it did so. Our caution here is dictated by the different positions in the exchange below. … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, Marcello Tarì
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Jacques Rancière: The singularity of rebellion and autonomy
Démocratie veut dire d’abord cela : un gouvernement anarchique, fondé sur rien d’autre que sur l’absence de tout titre à gouverner. Jacques Rancière, La haine de la démocratie To share, the always timely reflections of Jacques Rancière. A question arises … Continue reading
Beyond violence and non-violence: Peter Gelderloos
… nonviolence, in its current manifestations, is based on falsified histories of struggle. It has implicit and explicit connections to white people’s manipulations of the struggles of people of color. Its methods are wrapped in authoritarian dynamics, and its results … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, insurrection, patriarchy, Peter Gelderloos, racism, revolution, State terror
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The anarchist feminism of Voltairine de Cleyre
… this ill-got thing you call morality, sealed with the seal of marriage … [is] … the consummation of immorality, impurity, and injustice. … every married woman … is a bonded slave, who takes her master’s name, her master’s bread, … Continue reading →