The poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves … categorized according to Graeber and Wengrow’s three basic forms of domination. See our About page for more info.
The context for slave labor is a war – ostensibly between eastern Ukrainian separatists and the Kyiv government, but in reality fueled by huge quantities of weaponry and volunteers that have poured over the border from Russia – that has cheapened human life and made torture, murder and forced disappearances the norm.
Slave Labor in Lugansk Read More »
Many journalists apparently regard the reports of police spokespeople as a priori accurate and true descriptions of factual reality not to be questioned. Hmph.
Cops → Copy Paste → Content Read More »
Retail workers have to put their emotional selves on the line. There are unique stresses to the service environment, but those unique stresses do not negate the chances for worker solidarity and opposition to management.
Class Consciousness and Cultures of Resistance in Retail Read More »
People issued bounding orders are being criminalized and humiliated, receiving a punishment amounting essentially to indefinite detention.
How to Build an Invisible Prison Read More »
Are the powers that be just going to give up and end the War on Drugs and switch all this money to policies that make sense? Not unless we make them. That’s going to take each and every one of us engaging in daily actions of resistance.
End Slavery and Torture. Abolish Prisons. Support the Strikers. Read More »
“We’ve entered a new state of exception through an illegal impeachment process, and I don’t have very much hope that anything’s going to change by 2018. The only left candidate who has a chance of winning is Lula, and they’re going to try to arrest him or kill him before 2018.”
Democracy Has Ended in Brazil Read More »
It seems that state authorities, their liberal critics, and the vigilante groups share a common narrative.
Bulgarian Migrant-Hunters and Their Apologists Read More »
The more allies Erdoğan loses in his state apparatus, the more he has to rely on radical groups on the street to secure his power.
Politics in Turkey: the Elites and the Streets Read More »
“I’m not even sure this can be called a system, because there aren’t very clear institutionalized rules for participation. It’s not just a lack of democratic channels of representation. The regime doesn’t have a clear social coalition of groups that have a vested interest in its presence or in its policies.”
The Awful Purgatory of Authoritarian Non-Consolidation Read More »
The scientific revolution and the Enlightenment racialized and whitened freedom, civilization, rationality, and beauty.
How We Got So Racist Read More »
