Tim had convinced even himself that Swiss society was more open and tolerant than America with its smiling corporate fascists and their military police. In Switzerland, colorful, militant dance demonstrations were so common!
Short Story: “Winterthur” Read More »
There really is no choice but to organize a politics that is consciously resistant to the mass Black incarceration state. And it must be done in a confrontation with the coercive powers of the state. That is, the police.
Counterinsurgency in America Read More »
We must acknowledge intriguing connections currently being made between disparate and distant movements. Our task now is to make these confluences much more concrete, combative, and contagious.
The human rights movement, in its focus on atrocity, has been way too selective, leading us away from thinking about structural wrongdoing.
The Quiet Counterrevolution of Human Rights Idealism Read More »
AntiNote: Freelance photographer Alexander Belenkiy posted these photographs* on his livejournal this month, after a trip to Sochi. This is the ghost town he encountered there, only six months after the 2014 Winter Olympics. Alexander points out in his own commentary that the Olympic Village is not completely abandoned; indeed he took care to include
Photo Essay: Sochi, the $50 Billion ‘Ghost Town’ Read More »
The anniversary of World War One should be a time of deep reflection for the left. How was it possible that the vast majority of the socialist parties in Europe could drop their avowed internationalism and fall in behind the imperialist war adventures of their countries’ elites?
The Normality of War Read More »
It’s not like we need to encourage bottom-up building and community building, because that’s happening without anyone asking or assisting.
Learning from “Informal” Urban Innovation Read More »
Rebellions give people practice in learning that they can stand up for themselves, and it shows them a further horizon. Within that, there’s going to be conflict about what’s acceptable and what’s not, what’s helpful and what’s harmful. But those decisions can’t be handed down from above.
The Failure of Nonviolence Read More »
What’s going on is not really a genuine search for a compassionate resolution to a humanitarian crisis but a political hot potato that everyone is looking for ways to abuse, to feed their own ideological, political positions.
Sadness and Hope: On the American Refugee Crisis Read More »
