Still a Revolution: Solidarity Among Syrians
I haven’t met any Syrians who think that we should break up the country. We’re wary of further reinforcing divisions among us.
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This is Hell!
This is Hell! Radio has been broadcasting and podcasting from Chicago and “manufacturing dissent” since 1996. Between 2014 and 2021, Antidote Zine transcribed over two hundred of their in-depth interviews with scholars, activists, revolutionaries, and journalists on a variety of topics. This is of course only a tiny fraction of the fascinating material they have released, and still release on a regular basis.
Original audio and links to the show’s website are included in each post. Support This Is Hell! on their patronage site! And let us know if there are additional interviews of theirs you would like to see here in text form: antidote[at]riseup[dot]net.
Is Culture Important? The Struggle Over How to Struggle
“As much as I admire the cultural revolutions of the 1960s, the forces of capitalism can easily adapt to that. In fact, they have adapted to it better than any one person in America has.”
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Fight for Fifteen
Some of the people at the very bottom of capitalism are starving and dying and living their whole life in poverty. What we’re saying is this is not right. Some fundamental changes have to be made.
Working Long Hours is Lazy
Somebody is looking at their resources and saying, ‘You know what? We just can’t be bothered to organize this properly.’
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“Is This Even Capitalism Anymore?”
Social democracy, fascism, and state communism are a lot more similar, in certain structural ways, than any of them want to admit.
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Russian Avant-Garde in the Age of Disinformation
Imagine Alex Jones were running your TV—your national TV stations, all of them at the same time. Then you get the world we’re talking about.
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Public-Private Partnership in Your Pocket
The real threat is a totalitarian society that seduces you, that blinds you, that subtly frightens you with external enemies, and tells you that giving up freedom is necessary to preserve your freedom.
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Rojava Versus the World
The people in Rojava actively oppose capitalism as an economic system. They oppose the premises on which the international order is built, such as the state, such as patriarchy.
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Doesn’t That Make It a “Death Camp?”
I thought it was just another detainee holding facility. But we knew that it was not on the map; this was not on the books.
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Police Violence from Ferguson to Rio
The police will argue that they have to be heavy-handed with criminals because they’re under attack, because it’s a ‘war.’ But they won’t admit that they’re creating a climate of terror.
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