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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (III)
On 1 March, 1921, the Kronstadt Soviet rose in revolt against the regime of the Russian “Communist” Party. The Civil War was effectively over, with the last of the White armies in European Russia defeated in November, 1920. The remaining … Continue reading
Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (II)
From Roarmag (01/03/2021) magazine … Recovering the anarchism of the 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion Alexander Herbert The anarchist roots of the Kronstadt Rebellion have long been denied, but the plurality of anti-Bolshevik resistance in Soviet Russia harbors important lessons for movements … Continue reading
Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion
From Roarmag (01/03/2021) magazine … “Seventeen dreadful days”: Emma Goldman on the Kronstadt Rebellion On March 1, 1921, a citizen’s assembly in Kronstadt approved the Petropavlovsk Resolution listing 15 demands to the Bolshevik government in Petrograd. This date marks the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Emma Goldman, Kronstadt Rebellion, russian revolution
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Leo Tolstoy remembered against the pandemic
But actually history is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. […] In world history only those peoples that form states can come to our notice. G.W.F. Hegel, General Introduction to the Philosophy … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Giorgio Agamben, Leo Tolstoy, religion, State and terror
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Remembering a rebel: Peter Kropotkin
Educated men — “civilized,” as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or jailers. But, frankly, do you need them as much as you have been told … Continue reading
Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria (FAGC): Anarchism in struggle
Idealism is necessary, but not based on fantasies and chimeras, but on the real capacity to apply our ideas to transform the environment. We must find the limits of our myths – ideological, theoretical or any other kind – to … Continue reading
In defence of mutual aid
From The Commoner (21/01/2021), a reflection on mutual aid … Mutual Aid Does Nothing Alone: A Rebuttal to Joanna Wuest In her article ‘Mutual Aid Can’t Do It Alone,’ The Nation author Dr. Joanna Wuest alleges that mutual aid is insufficient to support … Continue reading
Mutual Aid: “To decentralise itself into non-existence”
In solidarity, we share a mutual aid story, a video testimonial of the Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Richmond, Virginia. We and You and So Many Others: A Story of MAD RVA and Mutual Aid in Richmond, VA … WHO ARE … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, mutual aid, united states
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Greece: News of struggles
From the CrimethInc. collective (19/01/2021) … New Year’s Notes from Greece under Lockdown: December 2020 and January 2021 At this time, we are reminded of our comrades through banners and graffiti, through brief encounters under the guise of getting exercise … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Louise Michel
Anarchy is not a new idea; writers long before Saint-Just believed that a person who makes himself a leader commits a crime. Louise Michel It is not possible to read Louise Michel’s memoires without being swept away by the passion … Continue reading →