Post-Socialism
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For a Radical Subversive Pragmatism
Precarious capitalism did not give birth to a precarious class, but to a precarious multitude. We need everybody experiencing precarity in their lives to join in a broad alliance of forces. Continue reading
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“If they think we are disorganized louts, they are wrong.”
“Long-haul truckers are a caste who are no strangers to hardship. We live in our rigs. So if truckers end up moving on Moscow in protest it would be easier than pie.” 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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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. 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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The Racism/Austerity Feedback Loop
Transcribed from the 24 January 2015 episode of This is Hell! Radio and printed with permission. Edited for space and readability. Listen to the whole interview: “Roma are among the poorest citizens in Bulgaria. But somehow, paradoxically, they are considered the most privileged, because of their supposed “privileged” access to welfare.” Chuck Mertz: We’ve… Continue reading
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Long Way From Maidan: A Report from Donetsk
Transcribed from This is Hell! Radio’s 27 September 2014 episode and printed with permission. Edited for space and readability. Listen to the full interview here: “There’s a lot of real old-fashioned class antagonism at the heart of this. When, on top of that class antagonism, you add an actual war with shooting, it becomes really… Continue reading
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“Refugee Apocalypse!”
BULGARIA: A look at asylum seekers’ portrayal in politics and media, the little-known practice of “external addressing” in which corrupt officials collude, and the all-too-familiar rise of fascist gangs with the state’s implicit approval by Tsvetelina Hristova and Raya Apostolova for LeftEast In the summer of 2013, as a mass of people was fleeing the… Continue reading
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How Healthcare Kills
AntiNote: this article appeared this month as part of an ongoing collaboration between LeftEast and the Balkan web portal Bilten.org, where it can be read in Serbo-Croatian. Reprinted with permission. “Over the last year and a half, ten Bulgarians committed violent suicide via self-immolation because of the increase of electricity prices; with these ‘well-intended’ healthcare… Continue reading
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Bosnia: Protests Continue Despite Contradictions
AntiNote: This article first appeared in German on the website of the Antikapitalistische Linke, a constellation of currents within the far-left German political party DIE LINKE which explicitly includes unaffiliated activists and agitators and views itself as a bridge between DIE LINKE and non-partisan anti-capitalist movements within Germany and elsewhere. A pair of AKL activists… Continue reading
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Not Ukraine’s Revolutionary Moment
AntiNote: As news breaks today of military incidents between Ukrainian government forces and separatist militants in the East, we are once again reeling from the quickly-shifting circumstances in that country. This interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko is less than a week old, and may already be nearing its expiration date… But: Ishchenko’s statements (as well as… Continue reading
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Bosnian Basics
Transcribed from This is Hell! Radio’s 22 March 2014 episode and printed with permission. Listen to the full interview here: “It’s misleading for the international community to say the citizens of Bosnia need to take ownership of their own issues, but then when they take that phrase literally, say, ‘oh, that’s not what we had… Continue reading
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Tensions in Budapest
AntiNote: We invite your thoughts on this subject, especially from those of you who work in or have contact with groups struggling for social justice in Hungary. Feel free to contact us at antidote[at]riseup[dot]net. The following is an extended excerpt of a radio interview, edited for readability. On 1 February 2014, Chuck Mertz of This… Continue reading
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Fuck them, they make three thousand a month
This text originally appeared on 9.2.2014 at http://www.lupiga.com/vijesti/glasnik-pregazene-generacije-o-sarajevskim-neredima By Faruk Šehić, recipient of the European Union Prize for Literature What actually happened that Friday 7th of February, what wild force was it that had awoken in the people and taken control of the streets surrounding the buildings of the Presidency of BiH and the Canton… Continue reading
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Protests Across Bosnia Are A “Collective Nervous Breakdown”
“He who sows hunger reaps anger,” warned the red graffiti on a Sarajevo government building this week. The message hinted at the depth of poverty and disillusionment in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) that has driven people to join demonstrations across the divided country, where the unemployment rate is about 40 percent. Protesters have since stormed… 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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