“This US decision to let Erdogan invade Syria will have disastrous consequences not only for the Kurds but for the entire international community. They authorize the Turkish state to invade a peaceful, secure and democratic area that has driven out all jihadist terrorists at the cost of the lives of 12,000 martyrs. They now leave the Kurds at the mercy of the Turkish army and its jihadist allies. We will…
ΟΛΟΙ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΔΡΟΜΟΥΣ ΑΘΗΝΑ 10:30 ΠΟΡΕΙΑ, Μουσείο, στηρίζουμε τα μπλοκ των σωματείων βάσης ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ 9:00 ΑΠΕΡΓΙΑΚΗ ΠΕΡΙΦΡΟΥΡΗΣΗ, Τσιμισκή με Αριστοτέλους 10:00 ΠΟΡΕΙΑ, Καμάρα, στηρίζουμε τα μπλοκ των σωματείων βάσης ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΟ 9:00, ΠΟΡΕΙΑ, Άγαλμα Βενιζέλου Μια απο τα ίδια ή μια καινούρια αρχή; Το χειρότερο που μπορεί να σου συμβεί με τις αλυσίδες είναι να τις συνηθίσεις. Ηδη, εδώ και 7 χρόνια, ανά τακτά χρονικά διαστήματα κράτος και κεφάλαιο “δαγκώνουν” κι…
Η ντεκαυλέ εποχή έχει έρθει να ντύσει τα ντεκολτέ, να σιδερώσει τους τρόπους, να καλύψει τα ρωμαϊκά γυμνά αγάλματα, να ακονίσει την απορριπτική διάθεση. Ένας χλωμός ήλιος ξεπροβάλλει πίσω από τη λέξη ντεκαυλέ, η οποία ριμάρει με το ντεφορμέ και το ντεπασέ και όλους τους επιθετικούς προσδιορισμούς αρνητικής χροιάς. Το ερωτικό ξενέρωμα είναι εδώ και είναι παντού. Απλώνεται σαν τον μύκητα στο κεφίρ. Σαν το μέλι στην κερήθρα. Επιπλέει στον…
As the far-right government in Greece is preparing a new law that allows the destruction of Greek coast-line by private interests and all kinds of capitalist’s investments we publish here a serial of photos from Spain where anyone can see clear the destructive effects of capitalistic development in Mediterranean environment. We are asking all people of Europe to fight for the defense of Greek coast-line and the paradesiac Greek beaches…
“First and foremost what we abhor on the whole is not just the image of some ultimate substance, some indivisible density; it is also and above all (at least for me) bad form.” Roland Barthes, Digressions 1. INITIATION Little subversions make for big conformities. 2. PROVISIONAL DEFINITION The man of the Old Regime is the figure of bourgeois subjectivity at the moment of its liquidation and hollowing out by cybernetic…
Asheville Fm radio, based in western North Carolina, aired a fascinating interview with an anarcho-syndicalist named Denys, from the Autonomous Worker’s Union in Ukraine. In the interview, Denys debunks many of the myths surrounding the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, and explains motives behind the stories and propaganda being circulated around the protests. Why is the Free Association Agreement with the EU (which would mostly benefit the ultra-rich oligarchs of Ukraine)…
For years the U.S. government allowed racist white lynch mobs to murder Black men, women and children for practically nothing. The lynchings were so absurd one could argue that Black people’s lives were little to no value at all. In fact, between 1882 and 1930 in just the 10 southern U.S. states of Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina, 2,500 black people were lynched.…
The somewhat recent (2012) translation of Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl published by Semiotext(e) seems to be stimulating more conversation than the previous, less achieved, version. (Or at least the discussion is more above-ground and visible, likely due to Ariana Reines’ new translation as well as the wider sweep of Semiotext(e)’s distribution.) At the same time, it feels as though the conversation has barely begun—at least…
PLEASE SPREAD IT WORLDWIDE !!!(english,spanish,french .greek.italian) ~On the night of January 19 a boat with 28 refugees was caught by the Greek Coast Guard as it was trying to approach the shore of Farmakonisi, a Greek island. The Greek Coast Guard vessel instead of towing them ashore started to push them back towards the Turkish coast. As a result the boat was sunk and 12 of them – 9 children,…
The far-right in Ukraine are acting as the vanguard of a protest movement that is being reported as pro-democracy.The situation on the ground is not as simple as pro-EU and trade versus pro-Putin and Russian hegemony in the region. When US Senator John McCain dined with Ukraine’s opposition leaders in December, he shared a table and later a stage with the leader of the extreme far-right Svoboda party Oleh Tyahnybok. This is Oleh Tyahnybok, he has claimed a “Moscow-Jewish mafia” rule…
This article was written shortly after the occurrences in Hamburg. We cannot bring in all of the impressions this day has left us with and maybe others will draw different analytical consequences, which we look forward to reading and discussing. Our main aim is to try to explain the events from our antinational, anticapitalist perspective here in Germany, especially for our international comrades, who asked about information and who cannot…
“In the middle of the revelries, a man whispers into the woman’s ear: What are you doing after the orgy?” (Baudrillard 1990) In his “Cool Memories” on America, the French writer Jean Baudrillard discusses through his anectodes some of the problems that contemporary societies of mass consumption are facing: In an endless schema of frustration/gratification, is human desire kidnapped and turned into a hostage without exchange? Aren’t we sacrificing something…
“When a government represses the freedom of art and the freedom of expression, it no longer has the right to usurpate the name of democracy, it becomes the expression of totalitarianism that is legitimate to fight. The arrest of the members of EMBROS Theater reveals the intention of an obscurantism incompatible with the right we all have to education and culture. It is a concern of everyone to oppose and…
(…) For weeks, the riots filled our screens with their void. What did we see? Fires in the night, enigmatic, faceless youths who disappeared seamlessly into darkness or behind smoke-screens, according to vanishing recipes we know nothing about. Something that refuses to be grasped but traps us in a fascinating anxiety. A possession. Like every magic ritual, a riot is a fleeting moment of perception of the invisible. It corresponds…
Reuters photographer Yannis Behrakis, based in Athens, spent several weeks documenting the unemployed and homeless in Greece as the continued economic downturn has impacted the numbers of homeless. Since the debt crisis erupted in 2009, hundreds of thousands of Greeks have lost their jobs — the unemployment rate in the country reached 26.8 percent, as the economy contracted by another 5.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013, and even…
Perhaps one of the greatest difficulties anarchists face on a day to day level is that of finding reliable comrades with whom to carry out ongoing projects of revolt that are integral to their lives – projects that go beyond the customary formulas that can be found everywhere (Food Not Bombs, Critical Mass, collective businesses…). These formulaic projects develop easily because they require little thought. For the same reason (no…
The events of the past couple of days are the latest step in a sequence of events by which the military can consolidate its hold on power, aim towards the death of the revolution and a return to a military/police state.The authoritarian regime of the Muslim Brotherhood had to go. But what has replaced it is the true face of the military in Egypt – no less authoritarian, no less…
Gilles Dauvé’s pamphlet on the on the failures of the Russian, Spanish and German Revolutions, and the rise of fascism in Europe it becomes more and more important in our times where he fascists movements reappear all over Europe and the masses seems unable to overcome the smae old mistakes of the past.Brest-Litovsk, 1917 and 1939“If the Russian Revolution becomes the signal for a proletarian revolution in the West, so…
An important new book on anarchist thought is now available from Winter Oak Press.The Anarchist Revelation: Being What We’re Meant to Be is the latest work by activist and writer Paul Cudenec.Here, he turns his back on contemporary trends of anarchism in a bid to reconnect with the primal force of its root ideology.Cudenec notes the significance of its refusal of the state and its judicial system, of land ownership and of…
With the emergence of a privileged mediocrity, the innocent life became accessible to the masses. No longer was joe average part of a class striving to historical ends, e.g. revolution or fascism; enter a cold era, now devoid of passion. While outside, storms raged and changerapidly followed change, one’s own life was left to grind to a halt.Time, regardless of history, fashion, politics, sex and the media, was to take…
Prison is only apparently the exception to the rule: crime given vent to or innocence punished is in fact the totality of society where everyone punishes each other for the offense of being there and where anyone who thinks is pierced by this question at least once a day: “Why have they put me here? What have I done?” and the terribly obsessive desire for escape is just like that…
breakout print – PDF breakout read – PDF This text was written as a discussion text for the Autonomous Congress in Hamburg in October 2009, the first in 15 years. ..[http://autonomerkongress.blogsport.de] The time to always assure ourselves of our own certainties has to come to an end To some our words might sound harsh. This happens easily if it´s the people you love that are at stake, those with whom…
“To analyze the psychology of political violence is not only extremely difficult, but also very dangerous. If such acts are treated with understanding, one is immediately accused of eulogizing them. If, on the other hand, human sympathy is expressed with the Attentäter, one risks being considered a possible accomplice. Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us…
In his early writings, Marx described the German situation as one in which the only answer to particular problems was the universal solution: global revolution. This is a succinct expression of the difference between a reformist and a revolutionary period: in a reformist period, global revolution remains a dream which, if it does anything, merely lends weight to attempts to change things locally; in a revolutionary period, it becomes clear…
Contemporary anarchism offers a mid-range movement organized somewhere between the levels of everyday life, to which it is closest, and insurrection. Rooted in the former they seek to move towards the latter. Anarchists look to the aspects of people’s daily lives that both suggest life without rule by external authorities and which might provide a foundation for anarchist social relations more broadly. This commitment forms a strong and persistent current…
This is a youtube channel with videos from revolted TurkeyDownload them, share them, see them before the censorship delete them from internet!The social uprising in Turkey continues and our friends and comrades in Turkey need the help from all of us.Share the authentic news from underground media sources, express your solidarity with all possible ways,help the message of revolted Turkish people to travel as further as possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGjPubr5L5c&list=PLtMSwy96r2CaQstcSN2eJl13w9mnR3aTEsuggested videos:…
VOID NETWORK EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY FOR THE PEOPLE IN TURKEY AND THEIR STRUGGLE. THE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST GLOBAL TOTALITARIANISM CONTINUES!WE SHALL OVERCOME!The occupation of Taksim Gezi Park in İstanbul began on May 28th, 2013. Following the police raid in the park area on May 30th, hackers from the RedHack sabotaged the website of the Beyoglu police headquarters in response to the morning attack.The occupation continued, and thousands of people gathered to resist…
1The traditional goal of aesthetics is to produce, by means of art, impressions of certain past elements of life in circumstances where those elements are lacking or absent, in such a way that those elements escape the disorder of appearances subject to the ravages of time. The degree of aesthetic success is thus measured by a beauty that is inseparable from duration, and that even goes so far as pretensions…
Last week Banksy declared that all profits from his current print sale would be gifted to Russian art anarchist group Voina. Known for drawing an enormous cock on a bridge opposite the ex-KGB offices, and instigating asex party in a museum (see above). We spoke to the group (half of which were replying from prison). Voina (or “War” to give them their English name) are a radical art group concerned with challenging the Russian establishment on important…
“To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives” W. Benjamin –> The Institute for Experimental Freedom is proud to announce the release of Between Predicates, War: Theses on Contemporary Struggle. Almost two years in the making, Between Predicates, War is a fragmented collection of theses on our tumultuous situation. From Egypt to the US, Greece to the UK, contemporary struggle announces a revolt against…
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was an enormously influential French philosopher who wrote, among other things, historical analyses of psychiatry, medicine, the prison system, and the function of sexuality in social organizations. He spent some time during the last years of his life at UC Berkeley, delivering several lectures in English. And happily they were recorded for posterity: Four Lectures on Truth and Subjectivity (1980) Six Lectures on Discourse and Truth (1983)…
Τα κείμενά του δημοσιεύονται στα μεγαλύτερα έντυπα του δυτικού κόσμου όπως στον Guardian και στους NY Times. Ο David Graeber είναι αμερικανός ανθρωπολόγος, συγγραφέας και αναρχικός, με πλούσια ακαδημαϊκή καριέρα. Συμμετέχει ενεργά σε πράξεις κοινωνικού και πολιτικού ακτιβισμού. Πρωτοστάτησε στις διαδηλώσεις εναντίον του Παγκόσμιου Οικονομικού Φόρουμ (Νέα Υόρκη, 2002) και στη δημιουργία του κινήματος Occupy Wall Street (2011). Τον συναντήσαμε στην Αθήνα (λίγο πριν από την Κατάληψη της Γουόλ Στριτ)…
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination.Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it. A 2010 Gallup poll asked Americans…
ANTIGROUND FESTIVAL II Σαββατο 30.3.2013 @ Nosotros Social Center [Θεμιστοκλέους 66, Εξάρχεια]Προβολή ταινίας [20:00]: “If….” Lindsay Anderson (1968) Live Act [22:00]Rita Moss Σύντομο Τέλος Intravenus Frequency oN GrainΛέξεις||Εικόνες Void LaboratoryΤόσο μακριά…Σε κάθε πράξη μας κρυμμένη βρίσκεται η στιγμή της ελευθερίας μαςΤόσο κοντά…Κάποιοι γέροντες άρχισαν να βγάζουν από τις τσέπες τους λουλούδια και πέτρες από ξηλωμένα πεζοδρόμια Κοιτάξαμε οι μεν τους δε, στα μάτια βαθιά Εκστασιασμένοι από τον πυρετό της στιγμής Και την προσδοκία…Προσμονή..Κάποιος φώναξε τότε δυνατά καθώς τα πρώτα φώτα…
We present here, in Arabic and in English, an open letter from participants in black bloc actions in the United States to participants in the Egyptian black bloc, aimed at initiating a dialogue beyond the exchange of youtube videos. This is of interest to everyone around the world struggling for liberation, so please print and distribute widely:pamphlet in English:http://cloudfront.crimethinc.com/pdfs/egyptblackbloc_english_imposed.pdfpamphlet in Arabic:http://cloudfront.crimethinc.com/pdfs/egyptblackbloc_arabic_imposed.pdfThe emergence of the black bloc in Egypt at this…
Total Freedom World Tour 2013 / Goa IndiaGATHERING OF THE SPACE TRIBES2 DAYS AUDIO VISUAL PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE SUNDAY 03.03.2013 // STARTS 23.00KULU [ SONIC LOOM ]SISSY STARDUST [ VOID NETWORK ]PAOLO [ GOAN MANTRA ]CHOZEN JO [ TREMORS UNDEGROUND ]ALREADY MAGED [ SONIC CHAKRAS ]CHROMADERMA [ LUNATIK REC. ] MONDAY 04.03.2013 // STARTS 23.00 KAOS [ GOAN MANTRA ]CONFO [ DISCO VALLEY ]SISHIVA [ ZOURLIA DIVISION ]ARJUN APU [ SHANTI CIRCLE ]CRYSTAL ZERO…
Κουλτούρες σε Αντίσταση Υποκουλτούρες Αντίστασης This text is a Greek translation of the chapter “Culture and Subculture” from the last part of the Crimethinc Ex.Workers collective book WORK (Capitalism.Economics.Resistance) The complete translation of all the last chapter of the book will be published in April 2013 in Athens by Void Network and Voidness publications titled “Resistance / Strategies of Contemporary Counter Culture) and will be distributed as a free pamphlet…
After June’s 2012 elections, a three-party coalition between the two former big corrupted governmental parties (neo liberal right wing “New Democracy” and neo liberal ex-social democrats PA.SO.K.) and a third social-democratic puppet (reformist left DIM.AR) has led the country into a peculiar coup regime with constitutional facade. Although elected by the people the three together marginally pass 48% of total voters and also each one of them pledged not to…
ALL MUST WORK! declares the cabinet of millionaires. ‘Workers not shirkers!’, they implore. ‘Strivers not skivers!’ The divide-and-rule rhetoric trying to pit those in work against those without is as relentless as it is transparent. But what’s so good about work anyway? Junge Linke’s short piece nicely skewers how attempts to mobilise resentment of claimants and the unemployed undermine even those in work who aren’t claiming benefits. What I’d like to focus…
Void Network [Athens, London, New York, Rio De Janeiro] expresses international solidarity for all girls and boys of India fighting for the end of patriarchic opression and medieval gender inequality and erotic supression in India. We express our demands for change of social morals all over this world, we demand social equality, gender equality, freedom of expression, freedom of Love, end of supression of diversity, freedom for all beings in…
Capitalism has collapsed, and fat people have been driven out of society… a few of them,all living in the same house, form a revolutionary group without meaning. An anonymous, fat man lives above them. Their rent is collected by Nancy, a beautiful state official who has a double role. Everything changes when the leader of the group decides to eat the state officer for the cause of the revolution. Only…
KENO DIKTYO Void Network [Theory, Utopia, Empathy, Ephemeral Arts] http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com presents Psychedelic Trance Experience!Grec [Progressive]Journey of the Soul [PsyTrance]Wingman [Amorphia/ Psy Trance]Baliou [Amorphia/ PsyTrance] Multimedia Visuals by: Void Optical Lab | Global Eye SATURDAY 1 DECEMBER 2012 Κato Leshi (Houtos) | ΚOMOTHNH suggested donation: 3€ party is taking place during 8th Αntiauthoritarian Festival Social Resistances in period of Crises Time: from 22:30 until 6:00 next morning supported by: Α.Κ. Κοmotini…
When you hear of Death Camps and Genocide, Nazi Germany and world war two come to mind. But Germany had practiced it’s murderous craft over sixty years before WWll. Before the Armenian Genocide, before the Jewish Genocide over 150,000 Herero and Nama peoples of modern-day Namibia were murdered by the order of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany between 1904 and 1909. Along the coastline of Namibia runs the Namib desert, a 1,200 mile long strip of unwelcoming…
“To deny society, one must attack its language.” – Guy Debord. The impossible is a closed universe. Nevertheless, we possess the key to it and, as we’ve suspected for millennia, its door opens on a field of infinite possibilities. More than ever, this field belongs to us, to explore and cultivate. The key is neither magic nor symbolic. The ancient Greeks called it “poetry,” from the verb poiein, to construct,…
Το ΚΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ παρουσιάζει στον κεντρικό χώρο του κοινωνικού κέντρου Νοσότρος Θεμιστοκλέους 66 / Εξάρχεια την ατομική έκθεση Ζωγραφικής της ΘΕΟΦΑΝΩΣ ΜΕΛΛΙΟΥ «ΜΑΥΡΑ ΑΣΤΕΡΙΑ» από τις 3 Νοέμβριου 2012 έως τον Φεβρουάριο 2013 Ένα παραμύθι από εικόνες για την πορεία του ανθρώπου από το σκοτάδι στο φώς, για το Φόβο, για το Ψέμα, για τα Όνειρα, για τον Δαίμονα Εαυτού, για την Αγάπη και για το ροκάνισμα του Χρόνου που…
Letter of the Community Guarani-Kaiowá of Pyelito Kue/Mbarakay-Iguatemi-MS for the Government and Justice of Brazil We (50 men, 50 women and 70 children) Guarani-Kaiowá communities originating from tekoha Pyelito kue / Mbrakay, we write this letter to present our historical situation and a final decision before the dispatch order expressed by the Federal Court of Navaraí MS, as Case No. 0000032-87.2012.4.03.6006, on 29 September 2012. We received information that our…
The anarchist tradition has been sharply divided in its relationship to religion, spirituality and nature. On the one hand, the mainstream of Western anarchism has in general been atheist, anti-religious and anti-clerical, and has looked upon religion as a supernaturalist negation of the natural world. On the other hand, there is a long history of anarchistic thought and practice having strong spiritual or religious dimensions, and very often these have…
In the first of a two part correspondence, John Holloway and Michael Hardt discuss some common themes that have emerged from their most recent books “Crack Capitalism” and “CommonWealth” and touch of the topics of organisation, democracy and institutionalism. The second part of the exchange will be published in Issue 15 of Shift magazine. July 2010 Dear John,One of the things I love about ‘Crack Capitalism’, which it shares with…
WAR, IF YOU WANT IT / War is warWar then, if that’s what you wantIntroductionNext time, when you’re still standing around commemorating something that you’ve lost, and all you see around you are the walking wounded and a fading brand struggling to stay relevant, hopefully there will come a point when you realize that whatever it was that started last fall, it wasn’t a movement. A year without follow-up, of…
Void Network invites all friends and comrades to participate on this Open Meeting and organise collective power: Call for an Open Meeting Say “NO” to the Neo-Nazi “Golden Dawn” in New York City Golden Dawn, G.D. (in Greek, Chrysi Avgi), the neo-Nazi, ultra-nationalistic party, which was recently elected to the Greek Parliament under the pretext of concern over unemployment, austerity and the economy, and while engaging in virulent anti-immigrant rhetoric…