“Reverse moral exceptionalism” is a nationalistic tendency to insist on oneself as central to every event of significance on the world stage and thus positions the United States as a singular source of evil in the world. This rhetoric sets the groundwork for an anticolonial discourse that paradoxically justifies oppressive regimes.
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“By reading these artistic, creative works of literature, the ways they tell stories, the ways they show humanity and inhumanity, the ways they show human beings—can they help us conceive of an alternative system of human rights?”
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We need forms of solidarity we may not be able to understand or imagine right now, but will be indispensable to having a world worth holding together.
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Using the term “war” in the Syrian context is as innocent, biased, and lazy as using the term “war” to name the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Instead of coming up with new ideas to name a rare situation, we keep reiterating the same old terms.
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Portrait of the outspoken Russian anarchist saboteur and prisoner Ruslan Sidiki
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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 refused. Instead they read this statement of hope and defiance.
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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?
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Arab liberation from authoritarian regimes is interconnected with Palestinian liberation from Zionism.
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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 police repression, arrests, and mass confusion.
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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 the backbone of the revolutionary struggle.
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