Category Archives: anarchism

Raoul Vaneigem: “The State is Nothing – Let’s be Everything”

Posted on September 4, 2019 by

“The society to come has no choice but to recover and develop history’s projects of self-organization, which, from the Paris Commune to the anarchist collectives of revolutionary Spain, rooted their quest for harmony in the autonomy of individuals, with the happiness of all standing in solidarity with the happiness of each.”

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Raoul Vaneigem interviewed On alienation, the Situationists and everyday revolution

Posted on August 27, 2019 by

“The movement of self-managing assemblies that is emerging today is the heir (though it is not yet fully aware of it) of all the struggles for emancipation that have shaken history. Where they stopped, where they were crushed, they will resume and, without even mentioning victory or defeat, they will start again without interruption, like the life that inspires them.”

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Luis Hessel: “Women and a revolution betrayed: Nicaragua”

Posted on August 12, 2019 by

‘During the revolution we knew situations that we disapproved of, but we were not aware of the damage they would eventually cause by not correcting them in time. The “defence” of the Revolution, the early and fierce attack of the US, the economic and military blockade, the formation of the counterrevolution, the emotional commitment and the personal and collective cost that was necessary to pay to achieve Somoza’s departure, as well as many other factors, affected the lack of criticism or its limits of those who had already committed abuses since the beginning of the Revolution.’

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James C. Scott interviewed

Posted on August 6, 2019 by

On revolution and resistance

 

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Jacques Rancière interviewed on “The singularity of rebellion and autonomy”

Posted on August 5, 2019 by

“The only real inheritance which we have today is the inheritance left by momentary movements. There is no inheritance of the parties of the Left, nor of the revolutionary parties that barely get a few percentages points in elections. … The ephemeral is what breaks the course of time of domination and what leaves an inheritance.”

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Jacques Fradin: “The insurrection of the yellow vests and the revolution of the revolution”

Posted on May 25, 2019 by

“The uprising of the yellow vests can be interpreted as a resurgence of the oldest movements of revolt … Or, rather, this uprising can also be interpreted as the first insurrection of a new revolutionary era, the era of the revolution of the revolution – symptomatic of a new political era that emerges by dissolving or destituting liberal hegemony.”

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lundimatin: “Theses on the concept of the absence of an epoch”

Posted on May 11, 2019 by

“When friends say, for years, that the revolution is no longer an absolute goal, they do not say so much that they do not want to take power or that they want to preserve some aspect of their princely life, they say above all that the great night, as a total upheaval of the conditions of existence, is impossible, among other reasons, because power is everywhere and especially in everyone.”

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Tasos Theofilou: ‘“I am not innocent”: Writings from a Greek prison’

Posted on April 30, 2019 by

“Theofilou gives testimony on the brutality of prison life, and its centrality in contemporary capitalism, through a blur of memoir, social commentary and free verse. His work centers on exposing the conditions of widespread exploitation and social struggle that persist in Greece as a result of the debt crisis — in prisons as well as in mainstream society.”

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Raquel Varela: “Learning from Portugal’s Carnation Revolution”

Posted on April 28, 2019 by

“A revolution took place in Portugal. We can date this precisely: between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975. The revolution was the most profound to have taken place in Europe since the Second World War. During those 19 months, hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike, hundreds of workplaces were occupied sometimes for months and perhaps almost three million people took part in demonstrations, occupations and commissions. A great many workplaces were taken over and run by the workers.  Land in much of southern and central Portugal was taken over by the workers themselves. Women won, almost overnight, a host of concessions and made massive strides towards equal pay and equality. Thousands of houses were occupied. Tens of thousands of soldiers rebelled.”

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Paris-luttes.info: “The gilets jaunes: Understanding the resistance of an insurrection”

Posted on April 20, 2019 by

“A background analysis of the yellow vests movement, after five months of mobilisation. A return to the salient points of this long sequence of struggle: the articulation strike-blockage and economic struggle-political struggle; the centrality of democratic issues; and the prospects of Commercy/Saint-Nazaire.”

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