(Terror) Warning: Angry Teenagers
Does understanding ISIS as a dynamic vanguard attractive to rebellious, thrill-seeking youth make it more, or less, scary?
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Structural Violence
Articles observing and analyzing the basic mode of domination relying on the control and justification of brute force.
Rojava Caught Between Fronts
It is conceivable that any movement towards Russia would sharply reduce sympathy in the West for Rojava, without anything about its political and social project having changed.
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The Fight to Expose Closed Systems of Brutality
People have had to struggle, have had to mount a movement, because the police fights tooth and nail against any monitoring.”
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“No Different Than Slavery”
“My message to those who think the situation in Eritrea “has improved” is that right now, at this very moment, thousands of innocent Eritreans are suffering silently in jails and prisons, while their best years slip away.”
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Iran: Workers Movement Statement on the Death in Custody of Shahrokh Zamani
This untimely death will naturally appear suspicious to any unbiased person. But even without any such suspicions, the conditions in prisons – especially for worker activists and political prisoners – are already murderous enough, for a thousand and one reasons.
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Refugees and the “Death of Europe”
“We grew up in the ruins of one empire and maliciously anticipated another empire’s fall. I was not a racist, quite the contrary. But I had almost no doubts that a Munich caliphate would soon be fighting a Bavarian Kurdistan.”
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By the Side of the Road
Are we involved enough yet? Are we making this our very own problem? We share a bit of the responsibility for their deaths, and those of thousands of others like them.
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The “Lottery of Life and Death” in Revolutionary Syria
“If you hear the rumbling of a plane, go down to the basement. If you smell something foul, climb up to the roof. If you run out of time to do any of the above, just know that I love you but there is nothing I can do.”
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Stop the Killings in Calais!
The fact that there have been eleven deaths since June 1st, at the same time that there has been a massive increase in security at the ports, is not mere coincidence.
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Suruç: The AKP and the Turkish “Deep State” Are Also Guilty
“Both reactionary forces–Daesh and Turkish fascism–have to be combated in order to hope for a radical change in Turkey.”
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