Category Archives: tyranny

Benjamin Studebaker: “Why Rebellions and Revolutions don’t Work Very Well”

Posted on July 5, 2018 by

“An unease is spreading, but it is not the unease in which people see the slavery for what it is, grab their pitchforks, and rebel. The bio/soc technology is too strong for that now, and the massive advancements in sur/co technology over the last century would make any such rebellion short-lived. No, it is a different sort of unease–a sense that things aren’t working, that something is wrong, but the cause is unclear.”

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Mason Herson-Hord: “Lessons from the First Palestinian Intifada”

Posted on May 27, 2018 by

‘There was much more to the First Intifada than mass protests. A less visible constellation of community organizations and networks made the uprising possible and, through a combination of grassroots democracy and what we would now call the “solidarity economy,” sustained the movement over years. This strong organizational bedrock stands out among popular movements, and is worth revisiting at a time where radical organizers from Barcelona to Kurdistanto Jackson, Miss., are taking up a similar strategy.’

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Kenan Behzat Sharpe: “Trapped in between: 1968 in Greece and Turkey”

Posted on May 19, 2018 by

“The 1960s explosions in Greece and Turkey were neither of the First or Third Worlds, the core or the periphery: they combined elements of both.”

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“No jobs, no leader, no hope: Why Palestinian youth refuse to surrender.”

Posted on May 17, 2018 by

“Many have spent half of their lives besieged, without consistent electricity or steady jobs. Meet the Palestinian protesters in Gaza.”

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Tareq Baconi: “What the Gaza Protests Portend”

Posted on May 17, 2018 by

“In these circumstances, the Palestinian struggle for self-determination has, in effect, dissolved into numerous local battles: equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, freedom of movement for West Bankers, residency rights for East Jerusalemites, education for refugees, an end to the blockade for Gazans. This fragmentation is not, however, a given for all time. The dense smoke, burning tires, and the masses of people huddled under gunfire on Friday afternoons is what, at this moment, the recalibration of the Palestinian struggle looks like. The images coming out of Gaza are an indication of Palestinian disenchantment with the political process and with their leaders. In a deeper and more significant way, we are also witnessing a revival of the core principles that always animated the Palestinian cause but that were displaced in the tangled maze of political negotiations.”

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Jonathan Neale: “Remembering the Saur Revolution”

Posted on May 17, 2018 by

“The idea that Communism or socialism required a dictatorship by a minority was widely accepted among radicals in the 1960s and 1970s. … The Afghan Communists were simply doing what the Left globally knew had to be done if they really wanted to change the world. Their tragedy is, in an acute and terrible form, the same one replicated elsewhere.”

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Lewis R. Gordon interviewed on Fanon’s “The Damned of the Earth”

Posted on May 2, 2018 by

“The tragedy is already staged in a system where innocence suffers. The good among both will suffer. Colonialism, enslavement, and racism are tragic so long as we understand that that the suffering of the damned is ignored or, for the most part, doesn’t matter. It is a lived reality of not mattering.”

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Patrick Iber: “The Cuban Sphere”

Posted on May 2, 2018 by

Two new histories capture the role Cuba played in the revolutions and counterrevolutions of Latin America: CUBA’S REVOLUTIONARY WORLD by Jonathan C. Brown and CUBA AND REVOLUTIONARY LATIN AMERICA: AN ORAL HISTORY by Dirk Kruijt.

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“From #MeToo to #WeStrike”

Posted on March 8, 2018 by

“What can the #MeToo movement learn from Latin American feminists? How can a global perspective help develop new insights into forms of violence and create a politics that challenges the fundamental basis of gender inequality?”

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“Kurdish women’s movement makes a historic call to women across the world”

Posted on March 6, 2018 by

“From the mountains of Kurdistan, in the lands where society developed with the leadership of women, we salute you with our great freedom, passion, ambition, and unbreakable struggle. From Rojava’s neighborhoods to South America’s forests, from Europe’s streets to Africa’s plains, from the Middle East’s valleys to North America’s plazas, from Asia’s mountains to Australia’s plateaus; with our love which knows no borders and with our most revolutionary feelings, we embrace all women who intensify the struggle for freedom and equality.”

Posted in fraternity, gender, In The News, justice, power, resistance, revolution, tyranny