Tag Archives: anti-racism

Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The ashes of the Republic

Reflections on the French police murder of Nahel Merzouk and the country’s July riots, by Rodrigo Karmy Bolton. (Lobo Suelto! 11/07/2023) What does it mean when France burns under barricades? Perhaps, that not only France but also the Republic, as … Continue reading

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Santiago López Petit: The violence of the force of pain

Reflections on the French police murder of Nahel Merzouk and the country’s July riots, by Santiago López Petit. (Lobo Suelto! 11/07/2023) Nahel’s mother, surrounded by her son’s friends, makes a motorcycle engine roar. Her son, murdered by a police officer, … Continue reading

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In praise of riots

With rebellion, awareness is born. Albert Camus, The Rebel Constitutively out of step with the present, the revolt is an impatient epiphany of the future that comes after tomorrow. Donatella Di Cesare, The Time of Revolt French politicians – the president, … Continue reading

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Justice for Nahel

From the CrimethInc. collective (02/07/2023) … The Roots of the Uprising in France The following text was sent to us by French comrades on the third day of unrest following the murder of the teenager Nahel Merzouk by French police … Continue reading

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The police murder: justice and truth for Nahel and all the victims

Statement from France’s Union communiste libertaire, 28th of June, 2023 … On the night of June 27 to 28, revolts began in the city of Nanterre to denounce a new murder by a policeman. His name was Nahel, he was … Continue reading

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For Albert Woodfox (1947-2022)

In my forties, I chose to take my pain and turn it into compassion, and not hate. Whenever I experienced pain of any origin I always made a promise to myself never to do anything that would cause someone else … Continue reading

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For Russell Maroon Shoatz: The tradition of Maroon “anarchism”

Russell Maroon Shoatz, activist and writer, was a founding member of the revolutionary group Black Unity Council in 1969, as well as a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. In 1972, he would be convicted … Continue reading

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Jacques Rancière: Seven rules to help with the diffusion of racist ideas in france

With french presidential elections upon us (and with other european elections scheduled for this year), we share a short, but timely, piece by Jacques Rancière, on the less than surreptitious ways in which racism is played upon and promoted in … Continue reading

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No escaping the state: the story of Lovett Fort-Whiteman

From Roarmag (13/01/2021), a reflection on the limits of the State as a vehicle for anti-racism, by William C. Anderson. The life of a Black radical who fled state violence in the US only to find it under a different … Continue reading

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“Anarchism” is just a name- a review of Anarchism and the Black Revolution and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition

From Freedom Press (13/01/2021), a review of two recently published essays: Anarchism and the Black Revolution, by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin (Pluto Press) and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, by William Anderson (AK Press). In Summer 2017, … Continue reading

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