Tag Archives: nationalism

Leo Jubault: “Memory against History: Black Lives Matter, Identity and the Revolution”

Posted on October 28, 2020 by

“This is a revolutionary moment; one that needed no parties or state, one that comes, as it often does, from the eruption of the memory of the oppressed. A memory that lies within specific lived experiences, but whose truth and call for justice transcends those specificities. From Rojava to Chiapas, from Yellow Jackets to Black Lives Matter.”

Posted in crisis, Nota Bene, power, revolution

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Ronan Burtenshaw & Seán Byers: “Ireland’s Unfinished Revolution”

Posted on April 13, 2020 by

“For the Irish left, neither the traditional nor revisionist narrative will do. In this moment of renewed working-class politics on the island, what is needed is an excavation of Ireland’s revolutionary period that embraces the struggle for independence in the context of the democratic and social revolutions many of its participants aspired to.”

Posted in freedom, Nota Bene, resistance, revolution, tragic politics, violence

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