Ai Weiwei – So Sorry
These events mark the beginning of Ai Weiwei’s struggle and surveillance at the hands of the state police.
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Culture of Resistance
Burma, a Revolutionary Crucible
“In Egypt in 2011, they were where Burma was in 1988. Burma has a very long history, now, of resistance to military rule, and different ways to go about that. It’s not just about getting millions of people into the streets. What do you do next?”
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The Alternative Education of a Chinese Punk
My friends and I started to believe that, by revolutionizing our everyday lives, we could change the world, or at least change ourselves through study, going from modern slaves to social actors with a sense of dignity.
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The Right to Bread and Social Justice
Social justice is the key to making any real change, and to all of the problems facing Egyptian society today.
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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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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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