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Greece: The politics of exception in times of the pandemic (2)

Greece is often presented as an example to follow in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, having kept numbers of infection and death comparatively low. (the Guardian) What is so often ignored or passed over in these celebratory judgements is … Continue reading

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Greece: The politics of exception in times of the pandemic

Greece is often presented as an example to follow in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, having kept numbers of infection and death comparatively low. (the Guardian) What is so often ignored or passed over in these celebratory judgements is … Continue reading

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Raúl Zibechi: Mapping militant mutual aid

Raúl Zibechi has been actively chronicling examples of mutual aid throughout latin america that are of enormous importance for the understanding of what is politically possible in times of crisis and pandemic. His work can be followed in spanish at … Continue reading

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Lebanon: Chronicles of revolution in times of a pandemic

From Lundi Matin #241, 04/05/2020 … Since October 17, 2019, Lebanon has been living at the rhythm of an uprising targeting both the political class and a moribund economic regime. As elsewhere, the spread of the virus and the health … Continue reading

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María Galindo: Giving form to a local anarcho-feminism

The logic of the struggle is not the final victory, but permanent and tenacious sabotage. María Galindo For the 8th of March, in solidarity with the calls for a feminist strike, an interview with María Galindo, anarchist, feminist, psychologist, from … Continue reading

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The chilean insurrection: Chronicles and lessons

From the CrimethInc. Collective (02/03/2020) … March is Coming: The Next Phase of Revolt in Chile The Lay of the Land Ahead of Round Two Since October, the territory nominally controlled by the Chilean government has seen massive demonstrations against capitalism and the … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: The coronaviris and the state of exception

Before the frenzied, irrational and totally unjustified emergency measures taken for a supposed epidemic due to the coronavirus, it is necessary to start with the declarations of the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), according to which “there is no epidemic … Continue reading

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March 8: Calls for a feminist strike

From spain, from the 8M organising committee of the strike, from spain’s CNT anarcho-syndicalist labour union, from an anarcho-feminist collective in south america, and from an anarchist feminist collective in mexico …

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Insurrection in lebanon

From the CrimethInc. Collective, an interview with Joey Ayoub on the rebellion in lebanon (and a followup on an earlier text of his posted by the Collective and shared by Autonomies). Lebanon: The Revolution Four Months in An Interview A massive … Continue reading

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From sea to sea

Indigenous struggles in canada … “From Sea to Sea”: Train Blockades, Colonialism and the Canadian Railways History (Contrepoints: Les temps fous, 15/02/2020) Canadian National Railway network has been paralyzed for more than a week by blockades in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en … Continue reading

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