Serge is committed “to the individual seen as a collective hero and the product of generations of struggle. … If people, not just revolutions, are centuries in the making, bearing the traces of prior social relations, of political domination and uprisings, it’s important to chronicle them as flesh and blood.”
Category Archives: tyranny
Alex Press: “The Conscience of a Revolutionary: Victor Serge’s commitment to the individual as collective hero”
Posted in defeat, ethics, fraternity, freedom, Nota Bene, resistance, revolution, tragic politics, tyranny
“Will Sudan’s revolution succeed?”
“We’ve been ruled by military dictatorships for over 50 years. We cannot accept another one.”
Posted in In The News, power, revolution, tyranny
Tagged Sudan
“A new Arab Spring?”
“East London rs21 held a meeting in May 2019 on the uprisings in Algeria, Sudan and Morocco. The speakers discussed the movements demanding change, the counter-revolutionary forces lining up against them, and the role of international solidarity.“
Posted in crisis, In The News, resistance, revolt, rights, tyranny
Tagged Algeria, Arab Spring, Morocco, Sudan
“In solidarity with the Sudan revolution”
“After months of protests, strikes, occupations, the Sudanese state has unleashed a wave of repression against the insurrection. Yet even in face of this terror, millions have now joined a general strike to bring down the regime. Rebellions are contagious, and with Algeria also in revolt, the region’s authoritarians sense fear; the moment when everything becomes possible.”
Posted in freedom, Nota Bene, revolution, tyranny
Tagged Algeria, Arab Spring, Sudan
Tasos Theofilou: ‘“I am not innocent”: Writings from a Greek prison’
“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.”
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
George Monbiot: “Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse”
“No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response.”
Posted in disobedience, ethics, Nota Bene, resistance, the common, tyranny
Tagged environment
“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
Tareq Baconi: “One Year of Gaza Protests. A New Era of Palestinian Struggle?”
“The rightward trajectory of Israel’s politics and the growing consensus behind Israel’s de facto annexation of the West Bank are unwittingly beginning to transform Palestinians, fragmented into territorial and political silos, into a single collective entity facing different aspects of the same oppressive power: an Israeli state that discriminates in favor of Jews over Palestinians across the entire land. .. Many younger Palestinians are nonetheless taking inspiration from the legacies of the American Civil Rights movement and the South African anti-Apartheid struggle, as well as from their own long history of popular resistance.”
Posted in freedom, Nota Bene, resistance, revolt, rights, tyranny, violence
Tagged Palestinians
