Category Archives: governance

‘Temps critiques’: “A yellow costume that creates community”

Posted on January 4, 2019 by

“If we agree that yellow vests have developed an autonomous movement, we will not go so far as to say that they self-organise themselves in the ideological sense of self-organisation, as conceived by historical councilists or libertarians. It is an immediate self-organisation that leads to nothing but his own immediate practice.”

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Raoul Vaneigem interview and “The reasons for the anger” on the gilets jaunes

Posted on December 31, 2018 by

“Everything is possible, even self-managing assemblies in the middle of street intersections, villages and neighborhoods.”

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Magdalena Gómez: “Towards the 25th anniversary of the Zapatista National Liberation Army”

Posted on December 27, 2018 by

“From 2001 to date, Zapatismo has constructed its autonomy in Chiapas, developing different areas of work through autonomous government bodies, as well as its own health and education systems through collective work, with everyone’s participation, women, men, young people and children.”

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Two statements that have appeared amidst the gilets jaunes “movement”

Posted on December 18, 2018 by

“All contemporary anti-capitalist movements must abandon the self-illusion of being intrinsically opposed to capitalism; whatever such movements may emerge, they will constitute themselves in the very struggle to destroy/escape capital.  The heterogeneity of contemporary social movements also condemns all possibility of representation.  The gilets jaunes possess the virtue of self-consciously embracing this condemnation or refusal.  The question then is what is to follow.”

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“Call from the Yellow Vests of Commercy to set up popular assemblies”

Posted on December 11, 2018 by

‘Here in Commercy, in the Meuse, we have been operating from the beginning with daily popular assemblies, where each person participates equally. We organized to block entrances to the city and service stations, and filtering road blocks. In the process, we built a cabin in the central square. We meet there every day to organize ourselves, decide next actions, interact with people, and welcome those who join the movement. We also organize “solidarity soups” to live beautiful moments  together and get to know each other. In equality.’

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Antonio Negri: “French Insurrection”

Posted on December 11, 2018 by

“how can a multitude, characterised within insurrectionist movements, be diverted from moving rightward and transformed into a class, into a force with the power to transform social relations? My first reflection is this: if it is not transformed into an organisation, a multitude of this kind is neutralised by the political system, it becomes impotent.”

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Samuel Farber: “The Russian Revolution Reconsidered”

Posted on November 28, 2018 by

“S. A. Smith’s book Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis 1890-1928 … sets out to explain how the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, inspired by a radical democratic and egalitarian spirit, degenerated into the Stalinist totalitarian regime.”

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Michael Braddick: “The people vs tyranny: The secular martyrdom of John Lilburne”

Posted on November 28, 2018 by

“Lilburne emerged from this world of Reformation politics but expressed his religious conscience in a very different way, based on a sharp distinction between the civil state and the ecclesiastical state.”

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“Raqqa on the way to a new future”

Posted on October 24, 2018 by

“Following the liberation of the northern Syrian city of Raqqa under the leadership of the YPJ (Women’s Defense Units) in October 2017, the city’s administration was handed over to the Civilian Council.”

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“50 Years later, Troubles still Cast ‘Huge Shadow’ over Northern Ireland”

Posted on October 5, 2018 by

The Irish Troubles (1968-98)

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