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The Grassroots Insurgency in Moscow City Politics
In several districts, local councilors practically took on the role of city councilors while current deputies either hid from their voters or openly stood with the Moscow city government, as in the case of the planned property development at the enormous Bitsa park. Continue reading
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On the Peculiar Racism of Soviet Émigrés
For less conformist members of the Soviet intelligentsia, endless condemnations of racism were essential parts of the state ideology they so despised. Continue reading
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The New “Outlaw” Proletariat
They are forcing us to be criminals in order to survive. They have cut off forms of subsistence and legal access to reproduction so drastically that it is no longer possible to survive without falling into illegality. Continue reading
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Meanwhile in Montenegro
The responsibility of the institutions that You represent is to protect the citizens, according to conscience and the law. If such postulates of a society do not exist, then we ask – why do institutions exist? Continue reading
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By the Side of the Road
Are we involved enough yet? Are we making this our very own problem? We share a bit of the responsibility for their deaths, and those of thousands of others like them. Continue reading
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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.” Continue reading
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It Might Be Spring in Macedonia
Teachers and students speak of organizing horizontally together against draconian state control measures in schools. Continue reading
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Fighting the Violent Patriarchy in Turkey
The religious-conservative ideological imposition that women should behave according to their purpose of creation is the discourse that perpetuates violence against women. Continue reading
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The Racism/Austerity Feedback Loop
You cannot really draw a line and say, ‘this is where the far Right starts, and this is where it ends.’ Some far-Right positions permeate the entire political field. Continue reading
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The Normality of War
The anniversary of World War One should be a time of deep reflection for the left. How was it possible that the vast majority of the socialist parties in Europe could drop their avowed internationalism and fall in behind the imperialist war adventures of their countries’ elites? Continue reading
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“Refugee Apocalypse!”
The border triangle between Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece more and more resembles an international ping-pong match. FRONTEX missions have become an inseparable part of border life in the region. Continue reading
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How Healthcare Kills
The right to healthcare is still written in the Bulgarian constitution, but is de facto cancelled as a ‘normal’ part of a wider process of ‘development’ characteristic of advanced capitalist societies. Continue reading
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Bulgaria: at Fortress Europe’s Postern Gate
A new form of nationalism is on the rise in Europe – one that is not founded in the nation-state but is instead fortifying wealthy core EU member-states by turning the periphery into an alert border zone. Continue reading
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After the Ball, Burschenschaften Explained
In Austria, right wing extremism is having a ballby Natascha Strobl for LeftEast3 February 2014 (original post) It is a sad fact that each year right-wing student fraternities, the Burschenschaften, are allowed to hold a ball in the Hofburg palace. It has grown into a major event on the yearly calendar of the Austrian and… Continue reading
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10 Theses of the Leftist Opposition in Ukraine
Replacing one set of politicians and oligarchs with another without overall systemic changes will not improve our lives. Continue reading
MANIFESTO
The Antidote Writers Collective seeks to resist and counteract the poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves.
We believe that a strong collective immune system is built through knowledge and understanding and that the struggle against division and repression requires building a new culture of discussion that goes beyond flat definitions, brittle ideologies, stubborn dogmas, idle preconceptions, and petty rivalries.
We will share knowledge with each other, aiming to build empathy, and in turn enable the emergence of genuine solidarity—one which does not demand uniformity across contexts, one which does not “include” you, but in which you include yourself.
In this spirit, we will provide a platform for a diverse set of voices, especially for those otherwise silenced or ignored in “mainstream” discussions. We want to hear from people engaged in radical struggles all over the world. We seek neither agreement nor conflict, but rather to identify issues at their roots, and to consider different radical approaches to their resolution. And though we at the Antidote Writers Collective have voices—and we will use them—we will not presume to speak for anybody.
On the contrary, we invite you to offer us new ways of thinking, new ways of seeing. It’s not about establishing a space for comfy ideological self-indulgence, but for questions, for a true diversity of voices and viewpoints, and for turning all of this into action.
One World. One Struggle.
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“… in the midst of putative peace, you could, like me, be unfortunate enough to stumble on a silent war. The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.” – Arundhati Roy
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