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Anarchist voices against Putin
We share below an excellent video by film-maker and journalist Alexis Daloumis, who gathers together a series of interviews with north-east european anarchists on the russian invasion of ukraine (from Freedom News 19/04/2022) …
Simone Weil: the Iliad is the purest and the loveliest of mirrors
Perhaps all men, by the very act of being born, are destined to suffer violence; yet this is a truth to which circumstance shuts men’s eyes. The strong are, as a matter of fact, never absolutely strong, nor are the … Continue reading
Wilfred Owen: The pity of war
The son of Saturn saw them and took pity upon their sorrow. He wagged his head, and muttered to himself, saying, “Poor things, why did we give you to King Peleus who is a mortal, while you are yourselves ageless and immortal? Was … Continue reading
Ukraine and the ethical uncertainty of war
So that the Alexanders, Carnots, Humberts, and others should not be murdered, but it should be explained to them that they are themselves murderers, and, chiefly, they should not be allowed to kill people: men should refuse to murder at … Continue reading
And after the war?
Reflections on the prospects for Social Struggles in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, by Vladimir Platonenko and published in english by the CrimethInc. collective (31/03/2020) … The Russian invasion of Ukraine has thrown Eastern Europe into disorder, disrupting an already volatile … Continue reading
Serge Quadruppani: The chaos of empire, the paranoia of empire
From Lundi Matin (#329, 07/03/2022), a reflection on our times of crises, by Serge Quadruppani. … Notes on the Nature of the Present Crisis and How to Tackle It No sooner had the Covid-alarm started to subside that the sirens … Continue reading
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A very long winter
Putin’s justifications for the invasion of Ukraine – to bring a halt to the genocide of Donbass Russians by the Ukrainian military and para-militaries, de-Nazification and the defence of Russia –, a war for which he has not hesitated to … Continue reading
Ukraine in Syria, Syria in Ukraine
News that the Syrian government is recruiting soldiers from its own army to join the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a reminder – for those who may have forgotten – of Putin’s earlier and extremely bloody intervention to help put … Continue reading
Mykhailo Drahomanov: Anarchist echoes from Ukraine’s past
Olenin had entered into the life of the Cossack village so fully that his past seemed quite foreign to him. As to the future, especially a future outside the world in which he was now living, it did not interest … Continue reading
Anarchist voices on the war in ukraine
We continue to share the voices of anarchists from central and eastern europe. The first is a statement from the Czech Anarchist Federation (AF), in response to the International Anarchist Federations (IFA) statement on the war. The second is an … Continue reading →