“A dispatch from an embattled worker-run factory in Buenos Aires, where a militant women’s committee has linked the fight in the factory to the broader feminist struggle beyond its doors.”
Category Archives: justice
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
“The gilets jaunes: A question of time”
“A reflection on the re-appropriation of time as the revolution within the yellow vests insurrection.”
Posted in emergency, freedom, justice, Nota Bene, performance, power, resistance, revolt
Tagged France
Enzo Traverso: “Understanding the Gilets Jaunes”
“A self-organized movement deprived of any tradition and historical memory learns from its experience and its own mistakes; it does not accept lessons from outside and has its own times of apprenticeship. Unfortunately, I am not sure they have much time.”
lundi matin: “The gilets jaunes: Creative violence against State brutality”
“The brutality of finance, of capitalism, pushes bodies into the streets, to hunger, to suicide, to oblivion, to boredom. Violence, in this sense, is only a process of emancipation of constrained bodies against the economic relations which surround them.”
lundimatin: “The specter of chaos”
“The specter of chaos or anarchy is brandished by those who rule the world and benefit from it. Anarchy and chaos are identified and this identification is an illusion that the negation of order leads to chaos. What is denied by revolt or revolution is not order in general but this particular order.”
Édouard Louis: “Can the Yellow Vests Speak?”
“This movement must continue, for it embodies something right, urgent, and profoundly radical, because faces and voices that are usually reduced to invisibility are finally visible and audible.”
Cinzia Arruzza: “From Women’s Strikes to a New Class Movement: The Third Feminist Wave”
“After more than two years of international mobilization … it is clearly time to say that we are in the middle of a new feminist wave. A wave that … as a whole has posed issues such as gender violence, wage inequality, reproductive rights, and women’s reproductive work, as well as sexual liberties, at the center of the political and cultural debate of every country hit by the mobilizations. … The current one is not the fourth or even the fifth feminist wave.”
Posted in fraternity, gender, justice, law, Nota Bene, power, revolt, rights, the common
Jason Brennan: “When the state is unjust, citizens may use justifiable violence.”
“Under what circumstances might active self-defence, including possible violence, be justified, as opposed to the passive resistance of civil disobedience that Americans generally applaud?”
Posted in disobedience, freedom, justice, Nota Bene, resistance, violence
Samuel Farber: “The Russian Revolution Reconsidered”
“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.”
Posted in governance, justice, Nota Bene, power, revolution, terror, tragic politics, tyranny
Tagged Russian Revolution
