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Palestine’s Lessons for the Left:Theses for a Poetics of the Earth

Published, in translation, by the Ill Will collective (03/11/2024), we share below a fundamental reflection on the significance of the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle against Israel and the Gaza genocide by the Chilean writer, Rodrigo Karmy Bolton.

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi: Hipercapitalism and Semiocapital

Caliban: You taught me language, and my profit on’tIs I know how to curse. The red plague rid youFor learning me your language! Shakespeare, The Tempest Historical colonialism: extractivism of physical resources The history of colonialism is a history of systematic depredation of territory. The object of colonisation is the resource-rich physical places that the colonialist West needed for its accumulation. … Continue reading

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Ghassan Salhab: Trompe-l’œil

From Lundi Matin #441, 02/09/2024. What if old words like ‘genocide’ (and why not ‘colonisation’) were false friends? What if the new technologies that subjugate our emotions when we think we’re expressing them were also betraying us? And what if … Continue reading

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Human Rights Discourse Has Failed to Stop the Genocide in Gaza

In December, Hudia, a refugee in Rafah, kept a diary of the horrors Israel has been visiting upon Gaza since October. This is testimonial 18 of the Palestine Uncensored series published on the Verso Books Blog. Hudia, 13 February 2024 December 6, 2023 Gaza City and … Continue reading

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The visible and the invisible

… [The trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem offered] … the most striking insight into the totality of the moral collapse the Nazis caused in respectable European society – not only in Germany but in almost all countries, not only … Continue reading

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1915 to 2015 – A Century of Genocide

Jansem, Desolation We share below an article that was written by Devrim Valerian (09/07/2015) on the occasion of the anniversary one hundred years ago of the armenian genocide at the hands of the turkish leaders of the Ottoman Empire. However it does not … Continue reading

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