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New Fascisms and the Reconfiguration of the Global Counterrevolution
From Ill Will (11/08/2025) and Colapso y desvio (07/04/2025), by Nueva Icaria. The present essay, written by friends in Chile, argues that the new fascisms of our day are not only generated by crises of capital, but must be understood … Continue reading
Do Anarchists Support Democracy?
Do Anarchists Support Democracy? The Opinions of Errico Malatesta Wayne Price (Source: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, 24/06/2025) In the current U.S.political crisis it is vital for anarchists and other radicals to be clear about their view of democracy. To this end, I … Continue reading
Plenums in the post-Yugoslav space
We publish an article by Yavor Tarinski, published in the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (23/03/2025) and generously passed onto to us by the author, about recent protests in various Balkan countries and the centrality of peoples “assemblies” or “plenums” … Continue reading
A Letter to Our American Cousins
From the Ill Will collective (06/11/2025). In the days following Donald Trump’s first presidential victory friends in France sent us a letter that treats his ascendency to power as a moment of truth that needs to be confronted. As we … Continue reading
Why Stop at Removing Biden?
From the CrimethInc. Collective (07/11/2024). The Center Cannot Hold It would seem like a heavy-handed metaphor if it weren’t our actual reality. A doddering patriarch, representing the collapsing centrist political project, refuses to step aside even as it becomes certain … Continue reading
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A Coup d’État in Israel?
From the CrimethInc. collective (27/03/2023) … A Coup d’État in Israel?: The Bitter Harvest of Colonialism On Sunday, March 26, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister in an attempt to consolidate power over the country, precipitating spontaneous mass demonstrations. … Continue reading
Jacques Rancière: Between anarchy and anarchism
We do not gain from the working operations of history that comprehensive understanding which would reveal the true solution. At best we rectify errors which occur along the way, but the new scheme is not immune to errors which will … Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street/Occupy, ten years on
As a project, yes. Projection, planning and programming have never done anything but project what it was possible to calculate at a given moment. And consequently, they block the image of a future already hemmed in. Of course, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, David Graeber, democracy, Mark Bray, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, united states
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Jean-Luc Nancy: Populism, Democracy, and Neofascism: Two Essays
LARB – the Los Angeles Review of Books (17/02/2019) presents two recent essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, translated from the French by Sarah Clift. Populism and Democracy Populism and democracy are an odd couple. The first, populism, rejects the pejorative connotation that … Continue reading
Mario Tronti: Towards a Critique of Political democracy
Democracy has problems with freedom. if it is true that real democracy is configured as liberal-democracy and that in the end this has been the winning solution, it is precisely this conjunction, binding together freedom (or liberty) and democracy, that … Continue reading →