On the Syrian Revolution
An anarchist initiative – a comprehensive study and call to action – from within Korydallos prison, Greece
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Self Defense & Non/Violence
Echoes of COINTELPRO and the Police Murder of Fred Hampton
The FBI links all this together into something called the “black identity extremist movement,” which then gives them the opportunity to surveil whomever they put in that category. There’s no definition of that category, so we have to believe that they’re doing the same thing that they did back then.
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The War Is (Also) In Our Heads
We understand militancy as the ability to defend oneself not just physically but mentally against hegemonic ideology, as well as the ability to make alternative ways of living conceivable and practicable.
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Cinema Utopia: The Antifascists
Antifascism is not radical. It is normal.
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It Doesn’t Have to Be Like This
Spending time among Russian antifascist punks taught me a political—and very personal—lesson. Benjamin Herbert
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The “Extremism” Cudgel
The political signaling of this ban on an internet platform is clear: it is not merely an attack on a specific structure but against the entire left.
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Post-G20 Reflections
How long will we let ourselves be intimidated by state violence, all the while shouting, “We won’t be intimidated!”?
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Grenfell Was Murder!
Recognize Grenfell for what it is: a horrifying expression of the banal murder of the capitalist system for which the only solution is a socialist, ecological, feminist, secular society like the one we are fighting for here in Rojava.
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The Origins of Antifa
Fractures in antifascist politics persisted until 30 January 1933, when the German elites transferred power to Hitler. After that, the greatest workers movement in the world was crushed by the brownshirts and the police.
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Back in Black
It’s worth reconsidering the role that militant confrontation, and self-defense, might play in protecting collective movements.