Climate Change, COVID, and the Global Movement for Health Justice
How do we think about health justice without addressing the fact that millions of Black and Brown people’s lives and health have been impacted for centuries by colonialism? What does it mean to look at reparations?
Minnesota: Black Friday Action Against the Gaza Slaughter
Messages like “Boycott Apartheid Israel” and “Don’t Fund Genocide” filled the Mall of America’s rotunda this morning during peak Black Friday shopping hours.
The Man Who Knows No Boundaries
Featured translation: investigative reporter Hannes Grassegger’s 2022 longform profile of “the Swiss man who built the global passport industry and turned citizenship into a commodity.”
The Burning House
Today, in light of the coming catastrophes, the question posed by African-American author James Baldwin once again presents itself: “Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?” Also, the structural integrity of the house is questionable.
Syrian Women Say “Enough” in a New Wave of Protests
Syrian women take to the streets after over a decade of being silenced and pushed into the shadows. This time, the epicenter of protests lies in Sweida, historically considered a neutral city.
Do Not Suffocate Truth
Denying chemical massacres is a form of cognitive violence against us Syrians who strive for freedom, justice, and democracy. It hinges on a complete disregard for the truth and the lived experiences of communities subjected to…
Squatting in Defense of Queer Autonomy
Getting involved in a self-organized space means evolving in a place that changes, transforms, and varies; it allows us to make mistakes, to challenge what we think is immutable, to try something new.
Topics
ACAB Alternative Structures Anarchism Anti-capitalism Autonomy Bureaucracy Climate Change Colonialism Corruption Countermedia Culture of Resistance Deutsch Ecocide Ecodefense Education Empathy Greece Housing Justice Insurrection Islamophobia Kurdistan Minneapolis Mutual Aid Neoliberalism No One Is Illegal No Pasarán! One World One Struggle Palaces & Vaults Philosophy Police & Prisons Political Prisoners Propaganda & Disinformation Que Se Vayan Todos Racism Russia Russian Reader Self Defense & Non/Violence Smash the Patriarchy Solidarity Squats & Occupations States & Borders Street Movements Switzerland Syria This is Hell! Ukraine United States of America War & Empire Work & Wage
When in Doubt, Do
A report from “Anarchy 2023,” the recent conference in Switzerland observing the 150th anniversary of the Anti-authoritarian International. How international was it?
Zine: Pride and Rage by Sour Queer Press
In an empire leaving disabled and sick people for dead, why are so many queers following suit rather than rebelling…
Deported and Left to Die in No Man’s Land
Agreements between the EU and Tunisia on migration control contribute directly to the escalation of racism, migrant hunts, and mass…
Avoiding the Traps Set Out for Us (2015)
Capitalism and its imperialisms in crisis are nothing other than nihilistic death cults. We are…
Syria, from Below and to the Left (2016)
The authoritarian Western left has, in light of the tragedy in Syria, lost both its…
For Generations: Genocide and Information Warfare in Ukraine
The same energy is there today in Russia. There’s a pride in imperialistic, genocidal ambitions, and there is casual, proud…
Open Letter to the Mother of Rémi Fraisse (2014)
I understand the appeal for peace. We did the same thing. Madame, people are fighting for Rémi, for their dignity,…
Why White Nationalists Love Assad
The Assad regime’s open genocidal policies against its own people are enviable to people on…
The Future in Ruins: Overwriting the Third Precinct
An international, autonomously organized Request for Proposals, informed by neighborhood assemblies, to re-imagine infrastructures of…
We’re All Staying!
The example of Hamburg shows how antiracist protests against European asylum policies can link up with local struggles like the fight around skyrocketing rents and the right to the city.
Manifesto
The Antidote Writers Collective seeks to resist and counteract the poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves.
We believe that a strong collective immune system is built through knowledge and understanding and that the struggle against division and repression requires building a new culture of discussion that goes beyond flat definitions, brittle ideologies, stubborn dogmas, idle preconceptions, and petty rivalries.
We will share knowledge with each other, aiming to build empathy, and in turn enable the emergence of genuine solidarity—one which does not demand uniformity across contexts, one which does not “include” you, but in which you include yourself.
In this spirit, we will provide a platform for a diverse set of voices, especially for those otherwise silenced or ignored in “mainstream” discussions. We want to hear from people engaged in radical struggles all over the world. We seek neither agreement nor conflict, but rather to identify issues at their roots, and to consider different radical approaches to their resolution. And though we at the Antidote Writers Collective have voices—and we will use them—we will not presume to speak for anybody.
On the contrary, we invite you to offer us new ways of thinking, new ways of seeing. It’s not about establishing a space for comfy ideological self-indulgence, but for questions, for a true diversity of voices and viewpoints, and for turning all of this into action.
One World. One Struggle.