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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (VI)

(On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists. We are posting articles by Alexei Gusev, Samuel Clarke, Paul Le Blanc, Daniel Fischer, and Tom Harrison. -Eds.) Kronstadt, an … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (V)

(On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists. We are posting articles by Alexei Gusev, Samuel Clarke, Paul Le Blanc, Daniel Fischer, and Tom Harrison. -Eds.) The Kronstadt … Continue reading

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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (IV)

… anarchism is not an imaginary dream, but a reality which gives logic and a realistic sense to the revolt of the human spirit against violence. To be anarchist one does not have to speak of fictions such as “absolute, … Continue reading

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Ruymán Rodríguez and the Federación Anarquista de Gran Canaria: An Interview

An interview for the spanish newspaper, El Salto diario (05/10/2021) … The Canarian anarchist activist Ruymán Rodríguez visits the Valencian Community, invited by the Mostra del Llibre Anarquista d’Alacant, to share the work carried out by the Sindicato de Inquilinas … Continue reading

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Anarchism: Giving form to autonomy

This post was born of an exchange of letters between John Holloway and Michael Hardt that focused on the issue of “anti-capitalist social movements” and their “organisation” and “institutionalisation”. The letters date from 2011, but their subject remains contemporary, as … Continue reading

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Occupy Wall Street/Occupy, ten years on

As a project, yes. Projection, planning and programming have never done anything but project what it was possible to calculate at a given moment. And consequently, they block the image of a future already hemmed in. Of course, it is … Continue reading

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The existential communism of Jean-Luc Nancy

Même le chaos n’est pas entièrement chaotique ;même le compact laisse passer la lumière ;même l’individu contient encore une part de nuit Frédéric Neyrat, Le communisme existentiel de Jean-Luc Nancy, éditions Lignes. From Lundi matin (#302, 30/08/2021, in translation), a reflection on … Continue reading

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Carrying the war into Africa? Anarchism, Morocco, and the Spanish Civil War

(Originally published in two parts by Freedom News (23/11/2020; 30/11/2020), we share an article by Danny Evans) I was approached by Jeff Stein to write up a summary of Abel Paz, La cuestión de Marruecos y la República española so that English-language … Continue reading

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Brazil: Only Revolt Can Bring Down Bolsonaro

From the CrimethInc. collective (12/08/2021) … Ahead of the 2022 elections, Brazil is now reprising the same dramatic showdown that the United States faced in 2020. As the pandemic intensifies alongside corruption scandals and the unrestrained plundering of Indigenous lands, … Continue reading

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A moss-like anarchist manifesto

A legend tells us that Christian soldiers took the city of Béjar in spain from its Muslim-Arab inhabitants in the 12th century by disguising themselves with coverings of moss, enabling them thereby to enter the city gates by surprise.[1] Our … Continue reading

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