With sorrow and rage, thousands of Mexican people mourned the assassination of Samir Flores Soberanes, promising to carry on his commitment to the defense of the land, water, education, grassroots communication and autonomy of the people.
Samir Didn’t Die! He Multiplied! Read More »
As European and North American powers divided the globe up among themselves and authored horrendous crimes on every corner of the globe, they needed to tell themselves that they were superior and virtuous, and they found a way to do it. That’s what the ideology of progress works for.
Progress, Purity, Ego, Ecocide Read More »
With authoritarians in power, mass disruption is the only thing that’s going to move them. They don’t care about dissent. In fact, for them, dissent serves the illusion that there is democracy.
Stop Being Such Asskissers Read More »
It’s not a matter of “helping” or being nice to poor people. It’s about sharing power. It’s about listening to what they say and amplifying their voice. People are the subjects of their own liberation, the subjects of their own freedom.
Who Is Doing the Liberating? Read More »
For migrants and their autonomous struggles, the factor of “race” is a social relationship through which “class experience” is made. Not the other way around. An internationalist leftwing counternarrative must take this as its starting point.
Calling Forth a New Internationalist Left Read More »
2016: “We do have an opportunity, and it’s our opportunity to lose. We have to get our shit together and seize it. Periods of repression and hardship don’t automatically translate into more resistance.”
The Future Was Up For Grabs Read More »
We’re probably incapable, as a society, of forming even a tenuous temporary popular front in the case of extreme emergency. We can’t even appeal, it seems, to the basic precept that genocide is bad. That’s scary.
SIGMATA: Is Popular-Front Antifascism a Fantasy? Read More »
Empathy itself is just feeling another person’s experience. It is a precursor to understanding. It is a precursor to friendship, it is a precursor to reconciliation.
Radical Empathy and Collective Power Read More »
There is no warning when a decision on asylum or detention on the island will be reached. There is a continual uncertainty. You hope, you despair, you go from moment to moment. Maybe tomorrow…
The answer to why we don’t accept that Assad remains in power is obvious: he killed our children, and the scars of their smiles are etched on our hearts.
We Retain the Dignity of the Revolution Read More »
