Category Archives: News blog

Bête et méchant: François Cavanna

La liberté consiste à faire tout ce que permet la longueur de la chaîne. François Cavanna François Cavanna, journalist, writer, artist, used the pen of satire and irony against all the "cons" that his times brought forward.  And for many, … Continue reading

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A Troubadour of Rebellion: Pete Seeger

For Pete Seeger, communist militant, first in the Party, and then beyond it, singer and story teller of America’s working classes and poor, co-founder of The Almanac Singers, and later The Weavers, who passed away on the 27th of January, … Continue reading

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Dancing politics

In memory of Jean Babilée, dancer and combatant of the French resistance, and who resisted always through creation, died on Thursday, January 30, at the age of 90.

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Okupying production: Kazova workers’ resistance

From Fatih Pinar, a video about the Kazova textile factory okupation in Istanbul, today a factory that continues to produce through workers' self-management.  Autonomy is constructed slowly, step by unpredictable step, in a movement in which the ends and the … Continue reading

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Insurrection in the city: Gamonal Resists

…the revolution in our times has to be urban – or nothing. David Harvey, Rebel Cities The greater part of the human species now dwells in cities; more correctly, in urban spaces, which for the most part exist in a … Continue reading

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The plurality of autonomy

Autonomies are woven in different ways, at different levels.  The self-understanding of those who participate, the goals and means employed, may vary enormously.  It is far too easy then to criticise such initiatives from a puritanical and ultimately impotent ideological … Continue reading

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Revolution as Destituent Power

Only if we’re able to disentangle the future … from the traps of growth and investment, will we find an escape from the vicious subjugation of life, wealth, and pleasure to the financial abstraction of semio-capital. … the future is … Continue reading

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Photographs of ecstasy: The Spanish Revolution

A face of revolution, the joy of rebellion triumphant captured in the eye of a camera lens; an icon of freedom in a spain struggling against fascism through social revolution.  1936 and the fleeting image of a revolution; fleeting, yet … Continue reading

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Taking/making the food

… human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to … Continue reading

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Political dissidence made criminal: Resistance from spain

Before State interdiction and oppression, how can and should resistance and opposition proceed?  If public protest risks falling into spectacular re-appropriation, should the streets then be left to the authorities of pacification?  And if protest is necessary, how can it … Continue reading

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