‘In the state of disappointment, we no longer have any position to “defend”, no formula to “sell”, we are all, as it is said, “in the same shit”. It is a moment of not knowing where new knowledge can be elaborated, if we avoid falling into the crossroads of accusations, the settling of accounts, the search for the guilty and the logic of the court.’
Category Archives: governance
Amador Fernández-Savater: “Reaching for a politics of pure potentiality, or trying to keep power at bay”
Posted in defeat, governance, Nota Bene, power, resistance, tragic politics
Tagged Agamben, potentiality
Julius Gavroche: “From extinction rebellion to desirous rebellion”
“From the Extinction Rebellion movement, we learn that we are in the midst of an ecological emergency.”
Posted in autonomy, governance, justice, Nota Bene, power
Tagged assemblies, Britain, environment
Raquel Varela: “Learning from Portugal’s Carnation Revolution”
“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.”
Posted in anarchism, autonomy, freedom, gender, governance, Nota Bene, revolution, rights, tragic politics, tyranny
Tagged Portugal
Tikva Honig-Parnass: “A community in arms: the Indigenous roots of the EZLN”
‘By building a “democracy from below,” the Zapatistas recognize the leadership of, and carry on a long tradition of resistance by Indigenous communities in Chiapas.’
Posted in founding, freedom, governance, Nota Bene, power, revolution, rights, the common, violence
Tagged Mexico, Zapatistas
“Tierra y libertad: The Mexican Revolution”
“The 100th anniversary of the murder of Emiliano Zapata by the Mexican military (10/04/1919) is the occasion to share texts on the country’s revolution (1910-1920), a revolution profoundly marked by anarchist ideals and practices, ideals and practices which very often found expression in much older indigenous social relations, and which have continued to resonate through the history of this land’s peoples.”
Posted in anarchism, autonomy, democracy, founding, governance, Nota Bene, revolution, rights, tragic politics, tyranny, violence
Tagged Mexico
David D. Kirkpatrick: “Hopes Raised during the Arab Spring are being Revived Across North Africa”
“The hopes inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 soured long ago. But across North Africa, the reverberations are coursing through the region once again, shaking autocratic governments and posing new questions about the future. Veterans of the Arab Spring struggles say the scenes feel like flashbacks to chapters of a common story. … But the setbacks and disillusionment are familiar as well.”
Posted in freedom, governance, In The News, justice, power, resistance, rights, tragic politics, tyranny
Peter Ludlow: “Maduro’s Venezuela”
“So here we are, stuck with a catastrophically inept and possibly deeply corrupt clown blowing up the socialist brand, and the Left, or at least the Left that I get exposed to in social media, falling all over itself trying to defend the guy. Honestly, if socialism is any sort of global movement, it has to find a way to pull the plug on this sort of human catastrophe. When it doesn’t, it effectively invites the United States and other western powers to come in and clean up the mess, which is to say, to install a brand new imperial mess.”
Posted in crisis, defeat, governance, hubris, Nota Bene, resistance, the Left, tragic politics
Tagged Venezuela
Julia Lovell: “Maoism marches on: The revolutionary idea that still shapes the world”
“The west has assumed that Maoism, like Soviet communism, has been left in the dust: no European rebels these days carry a Little Red Book. But the ideology is resurgent in China and remains hugely influential elsewhere.”
Posted in founding, freedom, governance, Nota Bene, revolution, violence
“Voices of Bakur” (film)
“‘Voices of Bakur‘ looks at the Kurdish movement in Bakur, Northern Kurdistan. It focuses on the period of 2015-2016, when more than a dozen Kurdish towns within the southeastern borders of Turkey declared autonomy from the Turkish state.”
