“We are taking back our dignity!”
On December 19, protests against the KRG erupted in Suleimaniya and surrounding towns. But the strategy of the demonstrators as well as the reaction of the authorities has everyone at a bit of a loss.
2017
Beyond the Possibilities: On Black Radical Thought
“The enslaved are agents of history – perhaps the most important agents in the making of opposition to the Western world as we know it.”
Only We Can Bring Peace to Syria
There will always be people who celebrate even the cruelest of tyrants, be it out of ignorance, sadism, fear, or being advantaged by these rulers. But does that make a tyrant’s regime “legitimate”?
The War Is (Also) In Our Heads
We understand militancy as the ability to defend oneself not just physically but mentally against hegemonic ideology, as well as the ability to make alternative ways of living conceivable and practicable.
“This place is hell and it cannot be fixed.”
As we were leaving the camp, locals confronted us, asking why we were helping the Syrians. They did not know about the three-month-old baby who had died right next door to them.
Cinema Utopia: The Antifascists
Antifascism is not radical. It is normal.
Worker Solidarity with Camp Makwa and the Movement for Environmental Justice
Faced with environmental dangers on a local and global scale, marginalized communities of workers are left with few choices except direct action.
Ice Cream, Concrete, and Squats
Gentrification is class war from above which must be answered with struggle from below. This requires accessible projects that can establish a broad and militant praxis.
Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists – Founding Statement of Principles
We stand for socialism as a concept of human emancipation and an affirmative vision distinguished from the authoritarian regimes that called themselves “Communist.”
Identity Crisis of a Declining, Violent America
If we are no longer the most powerful, no longer the most prosperous, no longer good…who are we? That dislocation is very difficult for a lot of Americans.