Strike Forever
Quitting, as an individual act of rebellion, remains just that. To be revolutionary it must be an action taken collectively. Do we have it in us?
Prefiguration & Permanent Revolution
Assertions of the basic human freedom to make and remake social relations.
Another Step Toward Utopia
“We don’t want to be the alternative in a generalized system of inequality and injustice. We want to be the mainstream.”
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Comparing Emancipatory Struggles in North and West Kurdistan
It is not easy to overturn the influence of 500 years of Turkish authority during which people have been marginalized, isolated and treated with utter disrespect. To change all of this requires a lot of work on the ground, and on the individual level as well. But what is promising is the zeal and determination of the activists in the area.
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Still a Revolution: Solidarity Among Syrians
I haven’t met any Syrians who think that we should break up the country. We’re wary of further reinforcing divisions among us.
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Is Culture Important? The Struggle Over How to Struggle
“As much as I admire the cultural revolutions of the 1960s, the forces of capitalism can easily adapt to that. In fact, they have adapted to it better than any one person in America has.”
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„Das ist eine echte Revolution“
Man kann den Kapitalismus nicht loswerden ohne den Staat abzuschaffen, man kann den Staat nicht loswerden ohne das Patriarchat loszuwerden.
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Working Long Hours is Lazy
Somebody is looking at their resources and saying, ‘You know what? We just can’t be bothered to organize this properly.’
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Syrien und die westliche Linke
Man lässt es zu, dass die Menschen zu Hunderten getötet werden, dann zu Tausenden, dann zu zehn Tausenden, dann zu hundert Tausenden. Was denken sie wird dann geschehen?
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Rojava Versus the World
The people in Rojava actively oppose capitalism as an economic system. They oppose the premises on which the international order is built, such as the state, such as patriarchy.
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What Form Should Our Antifascism Take?
Antifascism as a purely reactive, defensive strategy will not win us any new oppositional territory, as recent years have shown. Without a politics of class and without a real-existing infrastructure, Antifa remains a kind of ineffectual fire department that keeps falling back on the mere defense of bourgeois society.
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