Tag Archives: State and terror

Christian Laval: Total war as a neo-fascist mode of government

From the Verso Books Blog (03/02/2026) Christian Laval, co-author of The Choice of Civil War, on the escalation of the neoliberal order through the Trump administration’s total war. Trump is carrying out a protracted coup d’état right before our eyes, making … Continue reading

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See ICE? Add Heat

From Ill Will (13/02/2026), by anonymous authors Yesterday, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan announced the end of Operation Metro Surge, which brought several thousand ICE and CBP agents to the streets of Minnesota over the past few months. While this … Continue reading

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The Road to Prairieland

From the CrimethInc. collective (13/02/2026) The Crackdown on Anti-ICE Activists in Texas Reflects a Pattern of Intensifying Repression On July 4, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility imprisoning immigrants facing deportation … Continue reading

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Nate Holdren: Against The Border Power

The article that follows was originally posted here, at buttondown.com (05/02/2026) and subsequently here, at libcom.org (10/02/2026). As I’ve mentioned a while back I wrote a letter to Little Village saying deportation as such is wrong, that we should think of it … Continue reading

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Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The law of fire

From Ficción de la razón (21/01/2026) 1. In a short text dedicated to his daughter Anima entitled Land and Sea, the German jurist Carl Schmitt proposed the term nomos of the land to refer to the “original appropriation of space” … Continue reading

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State integration forced on Rojava

From Freedom News (20/01/2026) Islamist attacks and great-power manoeuvres place the revolution in existential threat Blade Runner Recent weeks’ clashes between Syrian state forces and Kurdish forces have developed into a multi-front assault on Rojava, threatening open war as a … Continue reading

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How Everyday Organizing Stopped Trump’s Bay Area ICE Surge

In this article a member of Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s California Bay Area Local reflects on the organizing that made recent mobilizations to oppose a “surge” of federal agents in their region both possible and successful. (06/11/2025) Juan Verala Luz Between … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: War is peace

Among the horrors of war that are often forgotten is its survival in peacetime through industrial transformations. It is well known – but forgotten – that the barbed wire with which many still fence their fields and properties comes from … Continue reading

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Morocco: The Gen Z 212 Uprising

An interview, from Crimethinc. (13/10/2025) Beginning with the toppling of the president of Sri Lanka in 2022 and the 2024 uprising in Bangladesh, a new revolutionary ferment has begun to spread around the world, gaining momentum with the uprising in Indonesia in August 2025 … Continue reading

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For Gianfranco Sanguinetti (1948-2025)

The theory of the revolution certainly does not depend on the sole area of properly scientific ideas, and still less on the construction of a speculative achievement, or on the aesthetic of that fiery manner of speech that contemplates itself … Continue reading

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