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The art of the violence of sovereignty: The refugee as the face of exception of our time

Francisco Goya, Saturn devouring his son (1819-1823) If Theodor Adorno could once state that after Auschwitz, to write poetry is barbaric, how much greater the violence of pictorially and plastically representing the horrors of the same event, and of nazi … Continue reading

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Scenes from the class struggle in spain

(Photograph by DISO press) Capitalism is a form of government that mobilises power through war.  The field of conflict is not marked by a battle front, but is played out in the everyday of each one of us.  In this … Continue reading

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Okupations without borders: The ExMoi occupation in Turin

Squatting is politically significant as part of a conscious project to contest the sanctity of private property, the exclusive role of the State in securing rights and providing for social needs, as experiments in autonomous self-management, which multiplied, both create … Continue reading

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Solidarity with CSA Dordoni

The social center Dordoni in Cremona was attacked on Sunday night by fascists from the extreme right wing group CasaPound, which aspire since 2003 to revive fascist values in Italy. The clashes, under the supervision of the police, left one … Continue reading

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Anti-fascism in spain (2): Reading events with Pasolini

La rivoluzione non è più che un sentimento. Pasolini, Progetto di opere future The eviction by the judicial police of the Hogar Social Madrid Ramiro Ledesma, in the neighbourhood of Tetuán, on the 19th of September, on order of the … Continue reading

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Anti-fascism in spain: Tetuán, Madrid

As well as the fascism of concentration camps …, new forms of molecular fascism are developing: the crematoria of Belsen can be satisfactorily replaced with the small furnaces of the family, the school, racism, ghettos of all sorts. All over … Continue reading

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(Parliamentary) Democracy, the Modern State, Capitalism and Fascism

The article that follows makes a number of points that are worth emphasising.  In a nutshell, "fascism is not a central political choice of the [modern] state".  Democracy with its "consensual" style of rule (and other tools) is a much … Continue reading

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Capitalism Dictator

The writer of the article that follows concludes as follows: ” For them [European governments], the important point is to keep the economic system sustainable. They see it as irrelevant what happens politically; whether, that is, there is a representative … Continue reading

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The Golden Dawn, Fascists, Neo-Nazis and the State

It is mostly in the writings of contemporary anti-authoritarian writers that we find the view that fascism and its various embodied (or should we say excremented) manifestations are not a symptom but an essential component (although often in partial manifestations) … Continue reading

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Fascism and anti-fascism: greek interventions

Posted on reinform and From the Greek Streets … Let’s get done with the system that breeds fascism – An interview with Dimitris Kousouris Dimitris Kousouris is one of the first political victims of Golden Dawn attacks. On June 16th, … Continue reading

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