The authoritarian Western left has, in light of the tragedy in Syria, lost both its credibility as well as its right to speak on the matter. If they cannot, given time, begin to address this, they are well on the way to complete irrelevance.
Syria, from Below and to the Left (2016) Read More »
It’s a chronic condition of capitalism that lower-income people in the income distribution of any city are not going to be able to house themselves decently and legally. That’s true if you’re in Nairobi or Lima or New York.
Contradictions and Crisis in Capitalist Housing Read More »
We dedicate this article both to the memory of George Floyd as well as to the freshly founded autonomous zone in Seattle, where activists are further along in the Zurich timeline now than even Minneapolis, where it all started. We salute you!
When Zurich Burned, and Was Reborn Read More »
Whether in Syria or in the diaspora, a big part of the problem is that Syrian voices are just not listened to. They know best what’s happening in their country. We could learn from their experience and support them.
“Just stay in your country and die.” Read More »
The ideas that became socially acceptable with the rise of Serbian nationalism in the 1980s soon found their concrete political implementation. What emerged was an ideological cocktail of racism, demographic panic, conspiratorial paranoia, and revanchism that ultimately proposed an urgent need for action against an allegedly existential threat.
The Balkans in Rightwing Mythology Read More »
The rescue boat is still a long way off, at least two minutes away. I can see through the spray of the sea that it is coming as fast as it can. But it is too late for us.
As long as there are individual states, there will be borders that determine which state is responsible for which section of the Earth’s surface. But there is no reason to assume that these borders must be “closed.”
The Freedom to Go Anywhere Read More »
As radical leftists our work is built upon the self-organization of the oppressed and exploited; we need a different conception of the working class.
A Quick Reminder to the Class Read More »
“We do it because otherwise they won’t leave,” Zurich functionary Mario Fehr (Social-democratic Party) recently explained.
“He died because he’s black!” Read More »
Gentrification is class war from above which must be answered with struggle from below. This requires accessible projects that can establish a broad and militant praxis.
Ice Cream, Concrete, and Squats Read More »
