Confluences
We must acknowledge intriguing connections currently being made between disparate and distant movements. Our task now is to make these confluences much more concrete, combative, and contagious.
Neoliberalism
The Quiet Counterrevolution of Human Rights Idealism
The human rights movement, in its focus on atrocity, has been way too selective, leading us away from thinking about structural wrongdoing.
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Photo Essay: Sochi, the $50 Billion ‘Ghost Town’
AntiNote: Freelance photographer Alexander Belenkiy posted these photographs* on his livejournal this month, after a trip to Sochi. This is the ghost town he encountered there, only six months after the 2014 Winter Olympics. Alexander points out in his own commentary that the Olympic Village is not completely abandoned; indeed he took care to include
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Learning from “Informal” Urban Innovation
It’s not like we need to encourage bottom-up building and community building, because that’s happening without anyone asking or assisting.
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On the Road in Late Capitalism
We found the portions of Chuck and Iain’s conversation that centered on place, cities, and our place in cities to be most complementary to topics we cover on Antidote.
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Know Your Enemy: Debunking Neoliberal Mythology
Neoliberals don’t feel threatened by the fact that stuff just keeps getting worse, as long as they can convince people to keep doing the same things—more markets to fix markets.
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Intersecting Neoliberal Goals at the World Cup
The World Cup fits into the general strategy of the Brazilian government.
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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.
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Not Ukraine’s Revolutionary Moment
For Ukrainians, as for any other people in the world, the main threat is capitalism.
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What Form Should Our Movement Take?
The best chance we have to challenge the dominant social structure is precisely from within it. Global systems of production, circulation, administration, etc., hold the means to provide material necessities for everyone on earth. Our ultimate goal is to make them serve humanity.
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