Critique and Panic
Patience and self-irony are prerequisites to being able to acknowledge arguments against activist rituals and the atrophy of debate.
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Translations
Articles and interviews translated by the Antidote Writers Collective. Note that we also feature translations from other sources as well, but do not include them here.
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“Fear of death is nothing; not being able to live is worse.”
Other fears are more essential than the fear of death. The fear of standing alone, or the fear that what you’re doing is futile. Those kinds of fears are more real, and are much more present in Europe than here.
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Community Self-Defense and a Politics of Life
It was normal people who took to the streets, attacked the police, and defended themselves against eviction. This resistance stopped a plan for two hundred forced evictions. It was a spontaneous coming-together in the neighborhood, among people who up to that point weren’t really organized.
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Radical Women* Reclaim Space in Switzerland
“Our friendliness has nothing to do with our being women*. We were also kicking around other ideas. The occupation could have gone down quite differently.”
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“Antifa is indispensable.”
We knew even before the NSU that neo-Nazis don’t shy away from killing people. Violence is part of their ideology. Writing “Jena is colorful” on the streets with chalk is nice, but not enough. Nazi activity has to be confronted, and limits imposed.
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Hope Versus Bombs
Everyone is asking themselves when it will finally be enough, when the people here will have suffered enough. Erdoğan’s answer: not for a long time yet.
Bringing Back Walter Rodney
In view of the tasks ahead – if we want to build a forceful movement against racism and imperialist interests – we should reacquaint ourselves with the Guyanese theorist.
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“No, that’s not a tree.”
People getting paid thousands of euros each month to slip “Truth” into the shrinking gaps between ads think people practicing journalism out of conviction are untrustworthy, lol.
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“I tell you: fight with me against the camp system”
Ajour Magazin spoke to one of thirteen illegalized refugees who decided that to get out and be part of society is more important than complying with the state; they moved into a derelict house in central Zurich.
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The Origins of Antifa
Fractures in antifascist politics persisted until 30 January 1933, when the German elites transferred power to Hitler. After that, the greatest workers movement in the world was crushed by the brownshirts and the police.
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