“No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response.”
Category Archives: tyranny
George Monbiot: “Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse”
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
“Voices of Bakur” (film)
“‘Voices of Bakur‘ looks at the Kurdish movement in Bakur, Northern Kurdistan. It focuses on the period of 2015-2016, when more than a dozen Kurdish towns within the southeastern borders of Turkey declared autonomy from the Turkish state.”
Marilyn La Jeunesse: “The History of Las Soldaderas, the Women Who Made the Mexican Revolution Possible”
“For the revolutionaries, the war was an opportunity to overthrow the outdated class system put in place by the Spanish elite. These revolutionaries saw it as a time for Mexico to reward the people who worked the land, not the other way around: a war for the mestizos; a war for the indigenous; and a war for the poor. But neither side could have endured for nearly 10 years without the dedication of Las Soldaderas.”
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.”
“All Out Against Bolsonaro! An Appeal from Brazil”
“On January 1, 2019, Jair Bolsonaro will assume the presidency of Brazil. His candidacy, his government, and his allies represent the worst in any society: authoritarianism, sexism, racism, homophobia, and xenophobia. Capitalism combined with strong fascist tendencies! We are calling on everyone to resist.”
Posted in In The News, power, resistance, tyranny
Tagged Brazil
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
Michael Braddick: “The people vs tyranny: The secular martyrdom of John Lilburne”
“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.”
Posted in disobedience, freedom, governance, law, Nota Bene, power, resistance, tyranny
Tagged Levellers, Reformation
