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Ukraine: Anarchists organising themselves in the face of war
The Lundi Matin collective in france has initiated a video news series dedicated to meeting and covering resistance movements around the world, to examine the reasons for engagement. We share their first report below. (For those unfamiliar with french – … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-imperialism, anti-militarism, revolution, russia, ukraine
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Ukraine: Trying to see beyond our myths
In response to a recent text by anarchists entitled Anarchist Antimilitarism and Myths About the War in Ukraine (antimilitarismus.noblogs.org and the Anarchist Library) and continuing with an earlier reflection on “revolutionary defeatism“, we share an interview below with Antti Rautiainen … Continue reading
Resistance to war in russia
From the CrimethInc. collective (26/09/2022) … Russia: Mobilization and Resistance Can the Russian Anti-War Movement Rise to the Challenge? On September 21, following the Ukrainian counteroffensive of early September, Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of the Russian population to support the … Continue reading
Fritz Oerter: Violence or non-violence?
Before the horrors of the First World War and the violence unleashed by the new, post-war German republic against the revolution of 1919-20, the anarchist-syndicalist Fritz Oerter made an impassioned defence of what he called “non-violent socialism”. If for some … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-militarism, Fritz Oerter, revolution
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Virginia Woolf: Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
Virginia Woolf, in times of war … The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a … Continue reading
Virginia Woolf: Anarchy against war
The daughters of educated men who were called, to their resentment, ‘feminists’ were in fact the advance guard of your own movement. They were fighting the same enemy that you are fighting and for the same reasons. They were fighting … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, Giorgio Agamben, Virginia Woolf
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Reading the past through the present: Marx and Engels on the Crimean War
Let us rather observe this lad of ten, clad in an ancient cap, his father’s probably, shoes worn on bare feet, and nankeen breeches, held up by a single suspender, who had climbed over the wall at the very beginning … Continue reading
Remembering Howard Zinn
My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, Howard Zinn, marxism, revolution
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Karl Kraus: In these great times … and in our times
To brandish Karl Kraus’ 1914 essay “In these great times” against our own may seem out of place. And in some sense it is, for the First World War is not ours. Yet Kraus condemns not only the war, but … Continue reading
War in Ukraine: An anarchist debate
A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command mighttransform them into our friends. At some table a document is signed by some persons whom none of us knows, and then for years together … Continue reading →