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The Paris Commune: Antonio Negri
An interview with Antonio Negri by Niccolò Cuppini, as part of the Planetary Commune project. (The interview is also available in spanish and french). However much we may hesitate before Negri’s Marxism – his almost exclusive attention to Marxist theorisations … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, occupy the city, Paris Commune, revolution, Toni Negri
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Greece: “Our Hatred for the Police Will Bring Us Together”
From the CrimethInc. Collective (07/04/2021)… It is the beginning of April and the mental impact of the lockdown has become even more surreal as the seasons change. The acts of resistance over the past few weeks have been both beautiful … Continue reading
Syria: Remembering a revolution
We are no less than the Paris commune workers: they resisted for 70 days and we are still going on for a year and a half. Omar Aziz, 2012 The “Arab Spring” as revolution risks falling into oblivion, reduced to … Continue reading
Resisting Greece’s rapid descent into authoritarianism
From Roarmag (23/03/2021) … Over the past few weeks, the streets of Athens have been filled with thousands of people, despite the country being in lockdown since the beginning of November. There are protests every day, in many neighborhoods and … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkman sees in both the Paris Commune of 1871 and the Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921 a failure of foresight and nerve. In both cases, what was demanded was aggressive action against the State. And what occurred was passivity, lack … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Berkman, anarchism, Kronstadt Rebellion, Paris Commune, revolution
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The Paris Commune: Voltairine de Cleyre
The Paris Commune of 1871 was not a revolution of the many against the tyranny of state and capital, but an uprising of a minority that confusedly took control of Paris, then left the foundations of power in place, only … Continue reading
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The Paris Commune: Errico Malatesta
Writing of the Paris Commune in 1900, Errico Malatesta sought to disarm the myth of the Commune as a revolution – it was neither a socialist nor an anarchist revolution – and bring to the fore what in fact it … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Peter Kropotkin
The revolution of 1871 was above all a popular one. It was made by the people themselves, it sprang spontaneously from the midst of the mass, and it was among the great masses of the people that it found its … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Mikhail Bakunin
I am a supporter of the Paris Commune, which for all the bloodletting it suffered at the hands of monarchical and clerical reaction, has nonetheless grown more enduring and more powerful in the hearts and minds of Europe’s proletariat. I … Continue reading
Amedeo Bertolo: The subversive weed
In the 1970s, Amedeo Bertolo engaged with newly emergent political concepts and movements which seemed both to recuperate older anarchist thought and practice, as well as to leave anarchism behind. For Bertolo, the concern was not to dismiss the new … Continue reading →