Category Archives: governance

“From Rojava to the Mapuche Struggle: The Kurdish Revolutionary Seed Spreads in Latin America”

Posted on September 16, 2018 by

“The Kurdish seed has already spread through Latin America and it is taking root among activists who are eager to collaborate. Like the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, the Kurdish struggle has inspired the formation of new groups, committees, organizations, and people who share similar experiences, and all appear to join what is just one fight: the struggle for our true freedom.”

Posted in autonomy, freedom, gender, governance, In The News, power, resistance

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“Resistance is Life: Welcome to the Commune”

Posted on September 13, 2018 by

“The Kurdish people have gone to great efforts to make their revolution an open one, to give both international fighters and civilian internationalists like us the opportunity to come here and learn, and develop the connections we need if we are to form a new internationalism with its roots here in the cradle of civilisation.”

Posted in autonomy, founding, freedom, gender, governance, Nota Bene, revolution, the common

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Cihad Hammy: “The first commune in Kobane: construction and challenges”

Posted on September 7, 2018 by

“Despite the challenges and shortcomings of the commune system in Rojava- North Syria, it still remains the best model in Syria that relatively offers the only space for peace, feminism, coexistence and democracy.”

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Mathew Little: “Democratic Revolution in Rojava”

Posted on September 1, 2018 by

“By making stronger connections with activists working at the base level of democratic confederalism; for example the communes, co-operatives and women’s organisations, we can broaden our understanding and begin to forge genuine solidarity and also generate ideas and inspiration for our own movements.”

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Philip Argeș O’Keeffe: “Tekmîl: Creating a Culture of Constructive Criticism”

Posted on September 1, 2018 by

“It is rooted in the aspect of the philosophy of democratic confederalism which emphasizes humility, open-mindedness and progress in all aspects of revolutionary life.”

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John Ferling: “Forget a new civil war. We need a new American revolution.”

Posted on August 2, 2018 by

“More than 200 years later, the United States may well be losing the American Revolution.”

Posted in democracy, founding, freedom, governance, Nota Bene, power, revolution, tyranny

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The Far Right is Talking about a Second Civil War

Posted on August 2, 2018 by

“Far-right voices are frothing about a looming civil war” – ThinkProgress

“Stop making second American Civil War clickbait” – Vox

 

 

Posted in disobedience, governance, In The News, resistance, tyranny

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Katlyn Marie Carter: “The Invention of Representative Democracy”

Posted on August 2, 2018 by

‘In the 1790s, as the discourse of “representative democracy” began to take hold, the salient differences between the two terms were muddled.’

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Matthew Rainbow Hale: “Defining Democracy, Challenging ‘Democrats’”

Posted on August 2, 2018 by

‘We know with greater clarity than ever before that the invention of the American “democrat” between 1793 and 1795 was an abrupt, dramatic, French Revolution-inspired phenomenon, that it went hand-in-hand with the emergence of the democrat-aristocrat rhetorical polarity, and that it betokened and contributed to a millenarian, utopian “regeneration” movement oriented around the social implications of egalitarian ideology.’

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Jonah Birch: “How Beautiful It Was”

Posted on June 1, 2018 by

“For a few brief weeks in France [in 1968], not just a government but an entire system was called into question.”

Posted in defeat, governance, Nota Bene, power, revolt, the Left, tragic politics

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