Tag Archives: anti-nationalism

Israel’s Long War on Lebanon

From the CrimethInc. collective (14/05/2026) A Joint History of the Zionist and Lebanese Entities In the following analysis, Ayman Makarem of the From the Periphery media collective reviews a century of colonial violence in Palestine and Lebanon to illuminate the current Israeli … Continue reading

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Simone Weil: The power of words (1937)

In every sphere, we seem to have lost the very elements of intelligence: the ideas of limit, measure, degree, proportion, relation, comparison, contingency, interdependence, interrelation of means and ends. To keep to the social level, our political universe is peopled … Continue reading

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“Magical thinking”: Beyond the violence of the two state solution for Palestine-Israel

Reaching for a Palestine-Israel beyond the nation state, with Mohammed A. Bamyeh. From the early 1990s, global applause for peace talks abounded. But what ultimately happened is that endless calls for a “two-state solution” that evaded explicit realization of Palestinian … Continue reading

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Uri Gordon: Anarchism and Nationalism

Continuing from our previous post: “A meeting between Ubu kings“. Anarchism and Nationalism: On the Subsidiarity of Deconstruction Uri Gordon Anarchists are against nationalism; everyone knows that. Instead of solidarity across borders and anti-hierarchical antagonism within them, nationalism engenders loyalty … Continue reading

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A meeting between Ubu kings

we seek beyond historyfor a new and more possible meeting. Audre Lorde The image of two men aspiring to absolute national power and imperial expansion meeting to discuss the parcelling out of a country invaded by one of them, with … Continue reading

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Victor Artola: Los Angeles, or the End of Assimilation

From Ill Will (14/06/2025) As we entered the fifth month of the second Trump era, the explosive social movements that marked the close of the 2010s seemed like a distant memory. The fifth anniversary of the burning of the Third … Continue reading

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Fire and Ice: Lessons from the Battle of Los Angeles

An anonymous text, published at Ill Will (14/06/2025) A printable zine version can be downloaded here. I think I’ll stay on this earthquake fault near this still-active volcano in this armed fortress facing a dying ocean & covered w/dirt while … Continue reading

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Don’t Let LA Stand Alone: A Message to the Gathering Resistance

From It’s going down, 13/06/2025 Over the past week, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Los Angeles, fighting to defend their neighborhoods and family members from ICE, facing off with the National Guard to demand those imprisoned … Continue reading

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Ghassan Salhab: The dance of death

From lundimatin, #421, 25/03/2024 … No, we do not want to catch up with anyone. But what we want is to walk in the company of man, every man, night and day, for all times. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of … Continue reading

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Fredy Perlman: Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom

It galls me that a new Fascism should choose to use the experience of the victims of the earlier Fascism among its justifications. Fredy Perlman We return to the work of Fredy Perlman, this time with the Israeli genocide of … Continue reading

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