Tag Archives: State and terror

Enzo Traverso: Readings and erasures of the past

The political violence of the 1970s was part of a political era that concluded with a defeat of the Left, of the workers’ movement, of alternative movements. This defeat has never been processed. Rather, this past has been repressed. At … Continue reading

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Latin America: From ungovernability to chaos

Raúl Zibechi is perhaps one of the most significant and lucid writers today on “social movements” in latin america. Below, we share a recent text authored by him, in translation. We also share a conference-conversation with Zibechi and Rita Segato … Continue reading

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The occupier and the occupied

Understanding demands words, even before the obscene. We share an essay by Ghassan Salhab, originally published in french with lundi matin (#288, 17/05/2021) …

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Capitalism is the pandemic: María Galindo

María Galindo shared this text with the media collective Lavaca (13/02/2021) and the magazine MU (both attached to the Universidad de Lavaca, argentina) , a text without prophetic ambitions, but which rather tries to think about the post-pandemic from a position of … Continue reading

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Resisting Greece’s rapid descent into authoritarianism

From Roarmag (23/03/2021) … Over the past few weeks, the streets of Athens have been filled with thousands of people, despite the country being in lockdown since the beginning of November. There are protests every day, in many neighborhoods and … Continue reading

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Leo Tolstoy remembered against the pandemic

But actually history is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. […] In world history only those peoples that form states can come to our notice. G.W.F. Hegel, General Introduction to the Philosophy … Continue reading

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January 6: An anarchist response

A anonymous article posted at It’s Going Down (12/01/2021) … A critical anarchist analysis and critique of the recent events in Washington DC and the response from the political Center and mass media.

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January 6: The dangers of repressive fallout

State and corporate activism to repress those directly and indirectly involved in the assault on the U.S. Capitol building in Washington DC on the last 6th of January risks extending beyond the limits of the country’s “neo-fascist” and white supremacist … Continue reading

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Santiago López Petit: The political construction of the emergency

The social malaise spreads moment by moment. The endless sequence of confinement – de-confinement – re-confinement – is the rope that slowly asphyxiates us. It is the rope that a State, incapable and seized by panic, holds to, to try … Continue reading

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Armenia-Azerbaijan: Whose war is this?

We share a statement from leftist youth of azerbaijan against the war over nagorno-karabakh. Its english translation was passed onto to us by the notbored.org collective, whom we warmly thank. Anti-War Declaration of the Leftist Youth of Azerbaijan (1) “Our … Continue reading

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