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The End of Biopolitics: Giorgio Cesarano and the Biological Revolution

Revolution is not, to put it in Benjaminian terms, the telos of historical dynamis, the intentional object of a revolutionary politics. Rather, it is a “state of the world,” a mode of being. Outside the sphere of separate politics, revolution is now the … Continue reading

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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

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The law and its political limits

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business … Continue reading

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Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism

From the CrimethInc. collective (06/06/2025) Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity Much has been made of the distinction between charity and mutual aid. Charity is top-down and unidirectional, while mutual aid is supposed to be horizontal, reciprocal, and participatory. In … Continue reading

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Santiago López Petit: How to stop being victims of waiting

From Lobo suelto! (15/03/2025) About the Soulèvements de la terre We are waiting. Day and night. Events follow one after the other, and we swallow them with little protest. The Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the genocide in Palestine, … Continue reading

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InterRebellium: Documents of rebellion

subMedia announces the first episode of their new documentary series, InterRebellium, featuring a deep dive on the 2019 uprising in Chile.

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T. J. Clark: For a left with no future

The British art historian and writer Timothy James Clark published an essay in 2012 with the New Left Review (74, March/April, 2012) that we believe remains as relevant today as it did then. Writing in the wake of the 2008 … Continue reading

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Leïla Al-Shami: “The future of Syria will be decided by the Syrians and nobody else”

An interview with Leïla al-Shami, from Lundi Matin #456, 16/12/2024. Leïla al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab are the authors of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, an important book in which they recounted the early years of the revolution and … Continue reading

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Syria: The dictator has fled, long live the revolution

In less than two weeks, the Bashar al-Assad regime of Syria collapsed, with his flight to Russia, in the face of a military offensive conducted by a coalition of armed groups led by Hay?at Tahrir al-Sham. If we count his … Continue reading

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Fell in Love with Fire

A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile, from the CrimethInc. collective (21/10/2024). Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months … Continue reading

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