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Miquel Amorós: The new internationalism in the struggle for de-globalisation

From Redes libertarias (17/12/2024) I am asked to reflect on the constraints imposed by state frameworks – borders, languages, national idiosyncrasies – when building relations on a global scale. Such a reflection cannot be carried out in the abstract, but … Continue reading

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Miguel Amorós: The likely causes of the rise of the extreme right in the capitalist world

The most striking political phenomenon of our recent era, which some rightly call the era of authoritarian leaders, is the rise of the extreme right in the partycratic/party-dominated capitalist countries. Some prefer to call it the radical, ultra-nationalist or populist … Continue reading

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Miguel Amorós: Anti-developmentalism: what it is and what it wants

A 2014 restatement of the meaning of “anti-developmentalism” by the Spanish activist and author, Miguel Amorós, which he defines as the new form of the “modern class struggle”. Anti-developmentalism: What It Is and What It Wants In one respect, anti-developmentalism … Continue reading

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: A cartography of alienation (I)

… the reality that we start from is ignorance. This appears to us to be a human faculty whose exercise must be truly familiar and an everyday experience for all our contemporaries; thus, it is a more solid and more … Continue reading

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Miguel Amorós: What is anarchism?

From a las barricadas (02/09/2024). We share Miguel Amorós’ essay, “What is Anarchism?”, not because we are entirely in agreement with it – that has never been an exclusive criterion of selection for us -, but because of the forcefulness … Continue reading

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Amedeo Bertolo: The Utopian Function in the Anarchist Imaginary

Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, … Continue reading

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Amedeo Bertolo: The subversive weed

In the 1970s, Amedeo Bertolo engaged with newly emergent political concepts and movements which seemed both to recuperate older anarchist thought and practice, as well as to leave anarchism behind. For Bertolo, the concern was not to dismiss the new … Continue reading

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Amedeo Bertolo: Fanatics of freedom

A central thesis animates the following essay by Amedeo Bertolo: for anarchism, freedom is inconceivable independently of equality, diversity and solidarity. Fanatics of freedom Amedeo Bertolo (This essay was presented at the seminar “La libertà, le libertà, i libertari”, in … Continue reading

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Amedeo Bertolo: Democracy and beyond

“Why, how can you ask such a question? You are a republican.”A republican! Yes; but that word specifies nothing. Res publica; that is, the public thing. Now, whoever is interested in public affairs — no matter under what form of … Continue reading

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Amedeo Bertolo: Authority, Power and Domination

Amedeo Bertolo’s essay, “Power, authority and domination: a proposal of definition” is perhaps one of the most important that he wrote, for its rigour and for its theoretical and potential practical implications. It is undoubtedly one of the clearest examples … Continue reading

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