Zine: Our Mirror Worlds
Standing on the side of life, in the context of genocide and ecocide and the normalization of mass death on pretty much every front—I believe that’s radical, transformational.
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The Fire These Times
The Fire These Times is a podcast and multimedia project started by scholar, writer, and activist Elia J. Ayoub in 2020. The Antidote Writers Collective collaborates with this project via comradely clerical support, mainly transcription.
Starting in spring 2023, we expanded our efforts. We help coordinate TFTT’s goal to make transcripts of every podcast episode available. If you are interested in contributing to this effort by transcribing any favorite past or future conversation on the podcast, please email us at antidote[at]riseup[dot]net and we will send you a style guide and instructions to make the whole process easier.
Edited transcripts will appear on the corresponding episode page at TFTT’s website, and Antidote Zine will continue to feature our favorites here as well.
Original audio and links are included in each post below. Support The Fire These Times on their Patreon site!
Killing Is Killing: Yarmouk and the “Squeeze” of Being Palestinian-Syrian
Look what happened to the Palestinians in Syria! Yarmouk camp is a case study the left should be focusing on, to expose the hypocrisy of the regime Hafez and Bashar al-Assad built.
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On Chemical Attacks and Genocide Denial
If people would accept not knowing much and were willing to learn, we’d be in a much better place. Unfortunately that didn’t happen, so here we are fighting chemical weapons denialism, which is probably the worst place we could be.
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Destroy Fascism, Embrace Complexity
Leftist theory has not been updated with advancements in complexity theory, information theory, the modern technically interconnected world, cybernetics, or all these other things that have happened since the industrial revolution.
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Abandoned Solidarities: Street-Level Politics in Israel-Palestine
“Our space to be Palestinian, to be political, and to be equal partners in building the new left in Israel, is crucial.”
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“We must pull up chairs for the ghosts.”
There are certain types of violence and levels of death that certain forces want us to feel are normal, that it always has been and it always will be. But it’s very modern, very new, all of this.
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Why White Nationalists Love Assad
The Assad regime’s open genocidal policies against its own people are enviable to people on the far right. For people whose politics come from identification with the state, this completely unrestrained killing is the highest form of freedom.
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Against Multipolar Imperialism
The idea of multipolarity needs to be understood & critiqued. The left cannot abandon anti-authoritarianism and internationalism.
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Our Wounds Are Bridges
Amplifying the voices of those who are in the middle of the fight, those who have suffered; asking people what life they want to live and then helping them to build it: this is what we need to be doing together.
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Sectarianization Is a Sickness
The sectarian narrative is often completely false; this messaging of fear is designed to preserve authoritarian regimes in the face of popular protest movements that have nothing to do with sect.
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