What we saw in Portugal in 1974 was men and women fighting together, black and white people fighting together, shantytowns and highly-qualified workers fighting together. The working class had a universal project of changing society. The Portuguese road to socialism in ’74 and ’75 was full of liberty.
Portuguese Lessons Read More »
We have been alerted, we have been warned: three significant outbursts of indignation and information from an overlooked flashpoint in Fortress Europe’s worsening border crisis: the Bosnian-Croatian border.
The Balkanroute in 2019: Camps, Cops, and Corruption Read More »
“I still dream about what I suffered in the migrant detention center. As a mother it hurt to see the suffering of my son and the children around me. I want this story written for them, so that it’s known what migrants are suffering.”
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It is critical to understand that the “Russiagate” hoax narrative is Trump’s narrative. By insisting for over two years that Russian interference was overblown, “left” skeptics have been defending the worst president in US history.
Russiagate, Syria, and the Left Read More »
The call is for a particular recognition of coherence, of racist misogyny and the fact that you can’t separate racism from misogyny—you just can’t. But everybody does.
On Abolitionist Socialist Feminism Read More »
It’s shocking to see how much time and effort state agencies put into combating sea rescues.
“As long as people are fleeing, we will try to rescue them.” Read More »
If more people are able to disengage even in some small way—not by moving out to the woods or forsaking the world entirely—and were able to find agency in the way that they direct their attention, it might remind us of the value of certain kinds of conversations and reflections, and help us have them.
The ideas that became socially acceptable with the rise of Serbian nationalism in the 1980s soon found their concrete political implementation. What emerged was an ideological cocktail of racism, demographic panic, conspiratorial paranoia, and revanchism that ultimately proposed an urgent need for action against an allegedly existential threat.
The Balkans in Rightwing Mythology Read More »
“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. These coming days, I believe we are witnessing the tipping point of victory.”
The Hope and Tragedy of a Revolutionary Read More »
As long as patriarchy perpetuates the violent idea that men have more rights than women, no one will live in freedom. The moment for internationalist feminism is here.
First Berlin, then the World Read More »
