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Iaroslavskaïa, the insurgent: Recuperating lost memories of revolution
The Russian Revolution often reduces itself, in superficial and/or interested narratives, to the seizure of political power in October of 1917 by Lenin’s Bolsheviks. It was of course far more than that, both before and after. And if the simple … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Evguénia Isaakovna Iaroslavskaïa-Markon, Feminism, revolution, russia
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The russian february revolution of 1917: Anarchist resonances
On International Women’s Day, February 23, 1917, after almost three years of war, women textile workers in Petrograd illegally struck over a food shortage. Soon other workers joined in the strike. By the end of the day, 75,000 workers were … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, revolution, russia, Voline
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First, they shot the anarchists: Trump and ‘The New Normal’
From the Its Going Down collective (08/02/2017), reflections on resistance to the “new normal” under Donald Trump …
Donald Trump and the limits of populism
Political scientists, commentators, journalists tell us that we live in an age of renewed nationalist populism; that against the rational, geopolitical management of global economic agencies, conservative-reactionary political movements threaten to upset the conditions of economic and social progress with … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, populism, revolution, united states
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The ZAD: an autonomous zone in the heart of france
From Roarmag collective (26/01/2017), a reflection on the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes by Martin Legall, a pre-figuarative struggle for autonomy …
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Tagged anarchism, france, Nuit Debout, Occupy, revolution, ZAD
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I don’t want to be strong. I want to be vulnerable.
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “[A]ll public assembly is haunted by the police … Continue reading
Rebel neighbourhoods: Vallcarca, Barcelona
As we once wrote of Madrid’s Carabanchel neighbourhood … “There are cities where particular neighbourhoods guard a memory of past disobedience and rebellion. They were in the past often referred to as working-class neighbourhoods, or quartiers populaires, to employ the … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, anarchism, gentrification, revolution, spain
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On the death of a portuguese “revolutionary”: Mario Soares and the inseparability of ideology and reality
For every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably. Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History It is a mistake to understand ideology as something … Continue reading
For the syrian revolution
Without any pretense of a well founded critical evaluation of political events in syria, in the context of a multi-front civil conflict between imperialist and proto-state actors, we share two anarchist reflections on the country’s revolution, in the wake of … Continue reading
The russian february revolution of 1917: Boris Yelensky
We continue to share testimonials/reflections on the russian revolution, from Robert Graham’s Anarchist Weblog … Boris Yelensky (1889-1974) was a Russian anarchist from Kuban, a city in southern Russia just north of the Black Sea. In the 1890s, he moved … Continue reading →