Climate Trauma
There is no way that we can get out of the warming condition or prevent climate breakdown without destroying and terminating things that are dangerous.
Productions
Articles and conversations the creation or presentation of which was made possible by the direct participation of the Antidote Writers Collective in our role as clerks of the revolution! Somebody has to do the dishes, and somebody has to be the notetaker and interpreter. We do what we can.
Crossing from Idlib to Turkey, Fall 2017
Even once you’ve made it across the border from Syria, you’re still a long way from safety. Turkish border police are hunting migrants all over the border region. And they do what they want with those they catch.
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All Our Liberation: The Arab Uprisings and Palestine
One of the most dangerous implications of the past seven years that will affect Palestinians in the years to come was the normalization of state violence and its use to suppress civilian populations.
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“The tools of our liberation became our captors.”
Ought we not at least entertain the possibility of something beyond ideologies, begin the work of thinking anew about the nature of politics, and push back against the troubling tendencies within the liberal order?
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Echoes of COINTELPRO and the Police Murder of Fred Hampton
The FBI links all this together into something called the “black identity extremist movement,” which then gives them the opportunity to surveil whomever they put in that category. There’s no definition of that category, so we have to believe that they’re doing the same thing that they did back then.
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“He died because he’s black!”
“We do it because otherwise they won’t leave,” Zurich functionary Mario Fehr (Social-democratic Party) recently explained.
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On Foraging and Freedom
The state is efficient at reproducing the state. The state is not necessarily more efficient at organizing subsistence.
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Replacing the Imperialist Fairy Tale
We must understand how processes of imperialism and racial capitalism work, but also how people have fought back. These resistance struggles connect us to people from other countries.
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“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.
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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.”
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