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Category Archives: Interview
Enzo Traverso: Revolutions are still breathing life into history
Historian Enzo Traverso on his latest book, Revolution: An Intellectual History. The interview originally appeared in the Alias section of il manifesto, 9 July 2022 and was published in the Verso books blog, 01/08/2022, translated by David Broder. “Revolution — without icons and without capital letters … Continue reading
Remembering Howard Zinn
My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Interview
Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, Howard Zinn, marxism, revolution
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Tom Cornell and the Catholic Worker
It would be almost impossible to describe any of the regular participants or contributors to Autonomies as catholic, or christian, or even religious, in any traditional or institutional sense of the latter. And yet we are equally aware of the … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Interview
Tagged Ammon Hennacy, anarchism, anti-militarism, Cornel West, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, religion, revolution, The Catholic Worker, Tom Cornell
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For Albert Woodfox (1947-2022)
In my forties, I chose to take my pain and turn it into compassion, and not hate. Whenever I experienced pain of any origin I always made a promise to myself never to do anything that would cause someone else … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Woodfox, anti-racism, Black Panthers, State terror
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Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Michel Foucault
In my opinion, as important as it may be, tactically speaking, to say at a given moment, ‘I am a homosexual,’ over the long run, in a wider strategy, the question of knowing who we are sexually should no longer … Continue reading
Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini interviewed by Louis Valentin (1970) A 1970 interview with Pier Paolo Pasolini, on the youth revolt of the sixties, culture, love, his film “Oedipus Rex”, the heterosexual couple, homosexuality, and more. LV: You have often been accused … Continue reading
Penny Rimbaud: The howl of life
Freedom is not an abstract noun to be tossed about in the semantic trash can by dusty academics looking for an intellectual fix. It is a birth; a verb. Like the air we breathe, freedom is free to us all, … Continue reading
Freedom to Stay, Freedom to Move: An Interview with Harsha Walia
(From Roarmag magazine online and the 2021, 11th paper issue of Roar Magazine) To create a world where we all have a home, we have to dismantle the border regime — not just borders, but all bordering, all ordering and … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-nationalism, anti-statism, Harsha Walia, migration, no borders
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For bell hooks (1952-2021)
Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that’s been a place of hope. bell hooks bell hooks … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, bell hooks, Feminism, patriarchy, united states
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Jean-Luc Godard by Jean-Luc Godard
For Jean-Luc Godard … Nous n’avons jamais prétendu que l’art puisse changer la nature et la qualité des choses, faire du crime une vertu, rendre moralement bon ce qui est moralement mauvais. Nous disons que l’art, en tant qu’art, est … Continue reading →