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Zine: Hierarchies of Solidarity
How do we decenter ourselves to be in solidarity with struggles not directly related to our lives? How do we do solidarity when it may be in contradiction with our values and experiences?
Zine: Where Are the Arabs?
Arab liberation from authoritarian regimes is interconnected with Palestinian liberation from Zionism.
It’s Up to Us: Two Interviews with Leila al-Shami
The international community spectacularly failed Syrians over the past thirteen years. Now it’s really time to get it right. We ourselves have also learned the importance of making visible the…
Listening to Syria
It’s an overwhelming moment, it’s a huge opportunity—as 2011 was. I would just tell people to listen to Syrians as much as possible, as opposed to people who would speak on their behalf.
Zine: Our Mirror Worlds
Standing on the side of life, in the context of genocide and ecocide and the normalization of mass death on pretty much every front—I believe that’s radical, transformational.
The Mud Wizard in His Own Words
By wearing this religious garb, I hope to bring spirituality to the fight. How can we topple the powerful from their thrones? That was the meaning of my gesture.
The Summer of Migration, Ten Years On
2015 is still with us! Our societies have been deeply transformed, and made more diverse and beautiful. Self-organized movements, solidarity networks, and support projects that emerged ten years ago still exist and persist despite criminalization.
The Black Black Sea: Portraits of Autonomous Disaster Relief in Russia
Local residents, without waiting for marching orders from the authorities, started cleaning up the fuel oil and saving birds and animals from day one. Thousands of people have been going out daily to clean the coastline.
The Messiah and the God-Emperor of Zurich
Book review: The Ministry for the Future reads like an insufficiently self-conscious parody of itself, complete with an overly self-important title and tone-deaf execution. It would read much better as satire.
Killing Is Killing: Yarmouk and the “Squeeze” of Being Palestinian-Syrian
Look what happened to the Palestinians in Syria! Yarmouk camp is a case study the left should be focusing on, to expose the hypocrisy of the regime Hafez and Bashar al-Assad built.
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Featured Archive: Free Syria
Syria is the World, the World is Syria
No one in the whole world, except a few people here and there, acknowledge that this is a genocide of the Holocaust type. Why not? Because no one is willing to see the Nazi when he looks in the mirror.
Struggles for Justice in Syria and Palestine
Neither Syrians nor Palestinians need us to teach them how to liberate themselves. They know what they need, and they know what liberation for them looks like. But can we help lessen the extreme conditions they live under so that they have the space to self-organize?
Two Refugee Camp Sieges
The Syrian regime has a long history of starving Palestinians, perhaps longer than any other Arab regime.
The Hope and Tragedy of a Revolutionary
See these people who are going out and protesting? They will once again go out against Bashar al-Assad, corruption, oppression, Russia, Iran, and all the nations of the world. This nation will never submit again. This matter has already been decided. We’re already victorious; we can’t be defeated.
We Should Know Where We Stand
Internationalists and anti-imperialists should support all struggles for social justice, radical democracy, and self-determination worldwide. The oppressed have the right to demand dignity, and we have a duty to support them as comrades.
Aleppo Is Burning. Assad Must Go.
This man is responsible for countless people being murdered, raped, tortured, imprisoned, and starved to death. Accepting him staying in power is the same as saying we shouldn’t have brought Hitler down.
Syria and the Euro-Leftist Double Impotency
Much of the European left’s argument against the revolution was demanding proof from Syrians on their worthiness of support, asking them to demonstrate that they are “revolutionary enough.”
Featured Archive: Un/translated
Campisme : La trahison des gauches occidentales
Au nom d’un anti-impérialisme tronqué, de nombreux militants échouent à soutenir celles et ceux qui luttent, au Sud comme à l’Est, contre des régimes parmi les plus oppressifs de la planète.
La Lucha Política es Permanente
“Hemos aprendido durante los 35 años que tiene la organización que mantenernos juntos es lo que nos tiene seguros. El proceso organizativo se vuelve en un proceso que nos garantiza la vida, la seguridad, y la paz.”
Seid Mutig!
Oft haben Menschen Angst vor Macht, vor der Regierung, vor herrschenden Meinungen. Aber wenn sie nie jemanden sehen, der keine Angst hat, werden sie Mut nicht lernen und ihre Meinung nicht wirklich ändern. Deshalb muss Mut sichtbar sein.
Featured transcripts from The Fire These Times
On Chemical Attacks and Genocide Denial
If people would accept not knowing much and were willing to learn, we’d be in a much better place. Unfortunately that didn’t happen, so here we are fighting chemical weapons denialism, which is probably the worst place we could be.
Destroy Fascism, Embrace Complexity
Leftist theory has not been updated with advancements in complexity theory, information theory, the modern technically interconnected world, cybernetics, or all these other things that have happened since the industrial revolution.
Abandoned Solidarities: Street-Level Politics in Israel-Palestine
“Our space to be Palestinian, to be political, and to be equal partners in building the new left in Israel, is crucial.”
“We must pull up chairs for the ghosts.”
There are certain types of violence and levels of death that certain forces want us to feel are normal, that it always has been and it always will be. But it’s very modern, very new, all of this.
Why White Nationalists Love Assad
The Assad regime’s open genocidal policies against its own people are enviable to people on the far right. For people whose politics come from identification with the state, this completely unrestrained killing is the highest form of freedom.
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.