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For Benjamin Zephaniah (1958-2023)
“Certainly, a lot of people in Britain, when you say ‘anarchists,’ they just think of riots. And the news will say, ‘Today, twenty anarchists went on a rampage.’ They don’t understand anarchism,” he said. “Politically, I’m a revolutionary. I believe … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-racism, Benjamin Zephaniah, colonialism and anti-colonialism, migration
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Between Two Seas
On 14 June 2023, a fishing boat carrying migrants sank in international waters in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Pylos, Messenia, Greece. The boat, which left Tobruk, Libya, on 10 June, carried an estimated 400 to 750 migrants. 104 people were rescued, 82 bodies have been recovered and … Continue reading
Freedom to Stay, Freedom to Move: An Interview with Harsha Walia
(From Roarmag magazine online and the 2021, 11th paper issue of Roar Magazine) To create a world where we all have a home, we have to dismantle the border regime — not just borders, but all bordering, all ordering and … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-nationalism, anti-statism, Harsha Walia, migration, no borders
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The many lives of Louise Michel
Historicity is not forgetfulness, but deviation. It is recollection, but not submission. … More than a homage to a past time, we endeavour to recover, to redeem, the moment of truth of those crushed rebellions, the possibles never realised, condemned … Continue reading
Athens,Greece: One year of resistance against state terrorism 10, 100, thousands of squats
August 27, 2020 by actforfreedom 10, 100, thousands of squats One year of resistance against state terrorism Today 26.8.20 marks one year since the armed hooded men of Chrysochoidis invaded the refugee squat of Spyrou Trikoupi 17 and the neighboring Transito … Continue reading
Greece: The politics of exception in times of the pandemic (2)
Greece is often presented as an example to follow in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, having kept numbers of infection and death comparatively low. (the Guardian) What is so often ignored or passed over in these celebratory judgements is … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-prison, greece, migration, State and terror, State terror
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Greece: The politics of exception in times of the pandemic
Greece is often presented as an example to follow in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, having kept numbers of infection and death comparatively low. (the Guardian) What is so often ignored or passed over in these celebratory judgements is … Continue reading
Greece: The war against squats continues
Athens: Massive intervention in the streets of Kolonaki (19/12/2019) There is a completely false belief that Exarchia is an area on the map bordered by Patision, Alexandra, Charilaou Trikoupi streets and the hills of Steki. In fact, there is today … Continue reading
Exarchia: Remembering what has been created, living what is at stake
For the rebels of Exarchia, for Notara 26 (from Yannis Youlountas) … Tomorrow evening, we will celebrate the 4th birthday of Notara 26, the first squat of the “refugee crises” in the centre of Athens, opened on the 25th of … Continue reading
Melilla: Eichmann at the border
… it is terrible to inhabit and know a world where eyes are no longer able to give a look – I do not say of love, but even of curiosity or sympathy. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Petrolio Have the moral … Continue reading →