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The Partisan from Ryazan
Portrait of the outspoken Russian anarchist saboteur and prisoner Ruslan Sidiki
“I will not perish here!”
On 21 February 2025, the trial against German antifascist Maja T. started at the Hungarian court in Budapest. They offered Maja fourteen years in exchange for a guilty plea. Maja…
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…
Zine: Where Are the Arabs?
Arab liberation from authoritarian regimes is interconnected with Palestinian liberation from Zionism.
Protests in Turkey: Perspectives from the Periphery
On 23 March 2025, the president of Turkey arrested Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, alongside dozens of others, sparking a wave of protests that in turn saw yet more…
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 civil organizing and democratic local councils that have always been…
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.
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Featured Archive: No One is Illegal
Crossing from Idlib to Turkey, Fall 2017
Even once you’ve made it across the border from Syria, you’re still a long way from safety. Turkish border police are hunting migrants all over the border region. And they do what they want with those they catch.
Sinking Dreams
The rescue boat is still a long way off, at least two minutes away. I can see through the spray of the sea that it is coming as fast as it can. But it is too late for us.
Chronicle of a Deportation
One deportee’s firsthand account of this traumatic and humiliating experience, in all its enraging detail.
“When someone can no longer go forward, you carry them.”
“Some trauma just stays. My engagement in struggle helps me overcome my own. But I have friends who are still suffering. It’s hard.”
Tents and Drones, Open Doors
We are never expected to be active in shaping our lives. We are like shadows which don’t really exist. People do things to us without asking. Open Doors is just a small step to show what…
Refugee Stories in Russia
“I used to really miss my family and my home in Syria, but not anymore. I have lost my family and simply see no point in life. I even think it would have been better had…
“Go Home!”
“Injustice must be resisted.” A day in the life of refugees in the heart of Fortress Europe
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.”
Die Flucht – Die Herzlosen
Dieser Text wurde anlässlich einer Zugbesetzung geschrieben und den Passagieren per Lautsprechanlange vorgelesen. Ziel der Aktion war es, der Flucht eine Geschichte, und den Fliehenden eine Stimme zu verleihen.
Featured transcripts from The Fire These Times
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.
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.
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.