Category Archives: Film

Ghassan Salhab: This name

PalestinianThis nameToday more than ever we must pronounce it, articulate it, utter itchant it, shout it, whisper it, sing itUntil our last breathThis name, this witnessBefore the night swallows it up forever I am writing these few words from Beirut, … Continue reading

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Fell in Love with Fire

A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile, from the CrimethInc. collective (21/10/2024). Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months … Continue reading

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The surrealist film-eye

In the hands of a free spirit the cinema is a magnificent and dangerous weapon. . . . The creative handling of film images is such that, among all means of human expression, its way of functioning is most reminiscent … Continue reading

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What is dual power?

Via It’s Going Down Video mini-documentary from subMedia.Tv on the anarchist concept of dual power. Dual Power, sometimes referred to as counter-power, is a stage in a revolutionary movement where two competing political frameworks occupy the same space. For anti-state revolutionaries this implies … Continue reading

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The battle for Britain: the 1984-85 coal miners’ strike

In a way it is even humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an ’intellectual’ and a superior person generally. For it isbrought home to you, at least while you … Continue reading

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The visible and the invisible

… [The trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem offered] … the most striking insight into the totality of the moral collapse the Nazis caused in respectable European society – not only in Germany but in almost all countries, not only … Continue reading

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Adónde está la libertad/Where is freedom

Fragments of a film: Los delincuentes (2023), by Rodrigo Moreno of Argentina … As for what I think about freedom, I think it’s in the movie. The idea of living to work implies a modern form of slavery. This is … Continue reading

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For Otar Iosseliani (1934-2023)

Tati is a gentleman that I have a great deal of respect for. I believe that he did his work observing a world that, at the time, was going mad. He is not however a model for me; it was … Continue reading

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Free Palestine/Free Israel (IV)

The Zionist project could only be realised through the creation in Palestine of a purely Jewish state, both as a safe haven for Jews from persecution and a cradle for a new Jewish nationalism. And such a state had to … Continue reading

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Roundabouts, Against Solitude

Remembering and resisting the erasure of the rebellion of the Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests with a piece published with lundi matin (#400, 24/10/2024) and with an excellent documentary film dedicated to the same, entitled Les Magnifiques Sauvages (in french). November 17 … Continue reading

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