CINEMA UTOPIA: Flame
“He was singled out as the only self-immolator who was driven by his ‘own moral consciousness,’ rather than, say, desperation or economic hardship.”
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Culture of Resistance
Is Culture Important? The Struggle Over How to Struggle
“As much as I admire the cultural revolutions of the 1960s, the forces of capitalism can easily adapt to that. In fact, they have adapted to it better than any one person in America has.”
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Concerning Violence
In this case it is obvious that agent of government speaks the language of pure force. He does not seek to hide the domination; he puts it into practice with the clear conscience of an upholder of the peace; yet he is the bringer of violence.
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“Berkin was our heart, our brother, our comrade.”
It is all too clear what the justice system does. They protect the state and its criminals, only and above all else. In this case, the prosecutor’s sole responsibility has been to protect the police. We have told him this directly.
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What Form Should Our Antifascism Take?
Antifascism as a purely reactive, defensive strategy will not win us any new oppositional territory, as recent years have shown. Without a politics of class and without a real-existing infrastructure, Antifa remains a kind of ineffectual fire department that keeps falling back on the mere defense of bourgeois society.
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Syriza and Social Movements: Risks and Opportunities
We are entering a period of really dense political time, the decisions of all political players will generate drastic results that will define the future.
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Detroit’s Organized Resistance
Detroit cannot be measured by what downtown looks like, when tens of thousands of people—children—are living without water.
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If There Isn’t Justice, Mexico Will Explode
Drug war militarization is actually used to create partnerships between governing elites and drug cartel leaders.
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Ferguson is Not Unique
These broader structural issues of police brutality, loss of economic opportunity, and exploitative practices are happening everywhere.
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After Gezi: Erdoğan And Political Struggle In Turkey
Political struggles over the future of Turkey have left the country profoundly divided. Former Prime Minister, now President, Tayyip Erdogan, has fueled growing polarization through his authoritarian response to protests, his large-scale urban development projects, his religious social conservatism, and most recently, through his complicity in the Islamic State’s war against the Kurdish people in
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