“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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Ice Cream, Concrete, and Squats
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.
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“When someone can no longer go forward, you carry them.”
“Some trauma just stays. My engagement in struggle helps me overcome my own. But I have friends who are still suffering. It’s hard.”
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Kirkuk: Kurds Against a Kurdish State
War produces death and slavery. The outcome of any war will not support starting a social revolution, in fact it damages and weakens the revolutionary climate.
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Chronicle of a Deportation
One deportee’s firsthand account of this traumatic and humiliating experience, in all its enraging detail.
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The “Extremism” Cudgel
The political signaling of this ban on an internet platform is clear: it is not merely an attack on a specific structure but against the entire left.
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Climate Change and Social Upheaval
We have to fundamentally alter society if we don’t want to disappear as a civilization, or even perhaps as a species. And we have very little time—in the best case, a generation.
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Iñaki and Me
Iñaki need not worry about being thrown in prison; he need not fear pursuit: the Spanish justice system does not persecute his ethnicity. He currently lives in a villa on Lake Geneva. His bank account is full.
War, Revolution, and “Patriotic” Revisionism in 2017 Petersburg
“Monumental propaganda” is made to short circuit all of Russian/Soviet history, especially the country’s triumphs, to the current regime and its ruler for life.
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“In our mouths, words become crimes.”
The laws have changed their names, but they are still laws of exception, and they still have the same consequences for dissidents: persecution, criminalization, repression, and imprisonment. Freedom of expression exists only for those who think the way they do.
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