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Paul Le Blanc: “Rosa Luxemburg and the actuality of revolution”

Posted on November 17, 2019 by

“If we take these ideas of Luxemburg, Lukács, and Gramsci seriously, we must realize that all of them were making reference to a context that no longer exists in 2019.  A hundred years ago there existed a substantial global labor movement, profoundly influenced by the theory of historical materialism, and with a dynamic and influential left wing infused with the sense of the actuality of revolution.  That was obliterated between the First World War and the twilight of the twentieth century. Something like it remains to be rebuilt.”

Posted in anarchism, freedom, Nota Bene, revolution, rights

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“Chile under a state of emergency”

Posted on October 21, 2019 by

‘Every protest against inequality, or the perceived assault on former “equality” and the arrogance and blindness of politicians, is today a potential spark for rebellion and insurrection. Today it is chile, lebanon, hong kong; just yesterday, it was ecuador, haiti, nicaragua, france. And if we push back the calendar to the beginning of this century, then it may rightfully be said, with Alain Badiou, that we live in times of riots.’

Posted in anarchism, emergency, In The News, resistance, the Left

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Verónica Gago: “Eight Theses on the Feminist Revolution”

Posted on September 12, 2019 by

“1. The tool of the feminist strike maps new forms of the exploitation of bodies and territories from a perspective that is simultaneously that of visibilization and insubordination. The strike reveals the heterogeneous composition of labor in a feminist register, recognizing tasks that have historically been disregarded, showing its current imbrication with generalized precarization and appropriating a traditional tool of struggle to overflow and reinvent it.”

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Livia Gershon: “Did Black Rebellion Win the Civil War?”

Posted on February 8, 2019 by

“Historians are giving credence to W.E.B. DuBois’s assertion that enslaved workers coordinated a general strike, which helped end the Civil War.”

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Kim Kelly: “Everything you Need to Know about General Strikes”

Posted on January 30, 2019 by

“So, is it time for a general strike? We clearly have a whole lot to do before anyone goes calling for mass action, but activists around the U.S. are already hard at work on these kinds of mutual aid projects and community outreach efforts. We may not be ready yet, but the groundwork is already being laid.”

Posted in disobedience, Nota Bene, power, resistance

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Jonah Birch: “How Beautiful It Was”

Posted on June 1, 2018 by

“For a few brief weeks in France [in 1968], not just a government but an entire system was called into question.”

Posted in defeat, governance, Nota Bene, power, revolt, the Left, tragic politics

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Daniel Cohn-Bendit & Claus Leggewie: “1968: Power to the Imagination”

Posted on April 26, 2018 by

“Our solidarity with the national liberation movements was immense. … What we largely ignored, however, was the suppression proceeding from the liberators themselves, once they had seized power.”

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Tithi Bhattacharya: “Women are leading the wave of strikes in America”

Posted on April 10, 2018 by

“These strikes are for wages and benefits, but they arise from a social landscape scoured by gender and racial inequalities.”

Posted in democracy, disobedience, gender, justice, Nota Bene, resistance

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Jason Read: “The Modality of Necessity: On Clover’s ‘Riot. Strike. Riot'”

Posted on August 5, 2017 by

“The question is how does one make a politics out of this combination of necessity and contingency. Such a question is not new, it might be the question of revolutionary politics. The long wave of strikes had answers to this question, answers that took the form of the worker’s movement, revolutionary unions, and so on.”

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“Brazil hit by first general strike in two decades”

Posted on April 29, 2017 by

“Protesters are taking a stand against the president’s proposed pension reforms. … Demonstrations are taking place across the country, with organisers saying they would focus attention on disrupting cities rather than small towns and rural communities.”

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