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Theory

Enzo Traverso: Revolutions are still breathing life into history

Historian Enzo Traverso on his latest book, Revolution: An Intellectual History. The interview originally appeared in the Alias section of il manifesto, 9 July 2022 and was published in the Verso books blog, 01/08/2022, translated by David Broder. “Revolution — without icons and without capital letters — remains a necessity, as an indeterminate idea of change and as the compass for human will. Not as a model, not as a prefabricated schema, but as a strategic… …

Theory

Fragments of a Chile in Revolt- Rodrigo Karmy Bolton

Preface  Below are two excerpts from Rodrigo Karmy Bolton’s The Future is Inherited, a compilation of essays and reflections composed during the initial months of the 2019 Chilean uprising, which recently appeared in English.  In October 2019, Transantiago, the Metropolitan Transit system in Chile’s capital, raised the train fare by thirty pesos. In response, high school students planned what they called a Evasión Masiva, a week of coordinated protests across… …

Global movement

Can the pandemic labor shortage help us envision a world without work?

written by Abigail Susik As the omicron variant sweeps through American communities, many of our workplaces and institutions are grinding to a halt. With nurses, teachers and other essential workers getting ill or quarantining, we are facing disruptions at schools and in hospitals. Some employers are seeking stopgap measures, trying to hire rapidly to fill open jobs, begging for community volunteers to help keep things running and even lowering requirements… …

Theory

Socialism in Black Queer Time: 70s and the Erotic Potentials of Radical Politics- Roderick Ferguson

In this talk Professor Ferguson engages the history of black queer diasporic formations in the 1970s as part of radical attempts to reimagine and eroticize socialist imaginations. The talk situates these formations within a social and political context in which various modes of difference were being mobilized to illustrate and expand the symbolic flexibility and the “writerly” potentials of socialism – particularly by the politically imaginative work of the Black… …

Global movement

SOS Five Greek Islands in great danger

The islands of Amorgos, Kimolos, Kithira, Sikinos and Tinos share the landscape and cultural wealth of the Cyclades, which give them an incomparable environmental value. This iconic landscape, which forms a vital part of Greek and also European identity, is formed by the harmonious coexistence between the Aegean Sea, hills, mountains, traditional settlements, monuments and archaeological sites. This multi-layered landscape is in grave danger due to proposals for the installation… …

Global movement

Myanmar- Youth brave bullets and arrest to keep protests alive

Ko Kyaw Htet is a frontline member of a protest group that has been gathering each day in Yangon’s Sanchaung Township for several weeks. The 23-year-old, who like every other protester in this article has been given a pseudonym for their safety, uses a shield fashioned from a SkyNet satellite dish for protection against rubber bullets. The activist also wears a yellow plastic hardhat and goggles to protect his eyes… …

Events/Void Network News

Heterotopia Festival- Kalamata Greece – 1-4 Oct. 2020

Μετά από τρεις μήνες λειτουργίας, ως Ελεύθερος Κοινωνικός Χώρος «Ταράτσα» και Συνέλευση Πρωτοβουλίας Κατοίκων Καλαμάτας, έχοντας έρθει σε επαφή με εκατοντάδες ανθρώπους στη βάση της αλληλοβοήθειας, της αυτοοργάνωσης και της αυτομόρφωσης, και βιώνοντας την επίθεση που η κυριαρχία εξαπολύει πάνω στα σώματα και τις ψυχές μας, αποφασίσαμε τη διοργάνωση πολυθεματικού φεστιβάλ στην πόλη της Καλαμάτας στις 1, 2, 3 και 4 Οκτώβρη. Heterotopia Festival Πέμπτη 01/10: Συνάντηση Γνωριμίας (Πάρκο ΟΣΕ… …

Events/Void Network News

Full Moon Atmospheres- Taratsa Social Space- Sun 5/7 Kalamata

Από το 1990 μέχρι σήμερα, το ΚΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ στα 30 χρόνια ύπαρξης του σαν συλλογικότητα έχει διοργανώσει πολλές γιορτές, rave party, ποιητικές βραδιές και συναυλίες κατά την διάρκεια της πανσελήνου σε διάφορα μέρη του κόσμού. Η Πανσέληνος είναι για εμάς μια ευκαιρία να συναντηθούμε και να ενώσουμε τις δυνάμεις μας, να γιορτάσουμε την αγάπη και την συντροφικότητα, να ξεκινήσουμε καινούργια σχέδια, να δώσουμε έμπνευση ο ένας στον άλλον. Την Κυριακή… …

Global movement

Venezuela’s Slow Coup Continues- by George Ciccariello-Maher

No other day is more emblematic for Venezuelans than January 23. It was on this day that Venezuelans rose up and overthrew the dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez in 1958. Thus, it was no surprise when the Venezuelan opposition chose January 23 to launch their most recent offensive, with the relatively unknown opposition benchwarmer Juan Guaido declaring himself president. The opposition’s desired message was clear: Nicolas Maduro is a dictator and “the… …

Global movement

You Can’t Just Tweet Oppression Away- by Adam Michael Krause

It has become widely accepted that Internet-based social media has profoundly changed the nature and practice of social activism. We are told that Twitter and Facebook empower the powerless and make the act of confronting oppression easier and more efficient. The recent events in Iran, Egypt, and Madison, Wisconsin are trotted out as examples, while books like Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody provide the theoretical underpinning. The recent events throughout the Middle… …

Global movement

‘Yellow Vests’ Riot in Paris, but Their Anger Is Rooted Deep in France- By Adam Nossiter

GUÉRET, France — At the bare bottom of Florian Dou’s shopping cart at the discount supermarket, there was a packet of $6 sausages and not much else. It was the end of last week, and the end of last month. At that point, “my salary and my wife’s have been gone for 10 days,” he lamented. How to survive those days between when the money runs out and when his… …

Global movement

Week of International Support in Lead Up to Nationwide Prison Strike

A call from a variety of groups to make some noise for the upcoming prison strike, kicking off on August 21st, 2018. This is a challenge to every anarchist, abolitionist, rebel and determined fighter against prison society and white supremacy in Amerikkka: Between Monday, July 16 and Saturday, July 21, we’re calling on you to help unleash a concerted and spectacular array of solidarity actions before the upcoming prison strikes! Prepare now, bring… …

Global movement

Anarchy in the UK: The Social Centres roundup in England

For all its small size and general impoverishment the libertarian socialist movement actually runs a surprisingly large amount of real estate around Britain, all on non-hierarchical lines, by and for the people of the cities and towns we’re in. Housing co-ops, bookshops, bike collectives, archives, distros, printers and the like are all part of the collective mix. Below, Freedom News briefly rounds up some goings-on at 15 radical social centres… …

Events/Void Network News

Η ΑΝΑΡΧΙΑ μετά τον θάνατο της Αριστεράς / Ομιλία του Paul Z. Simons (ΗΠΑ)- περιοδικό Anarchy & Κενό Δίκτυο Σαββ.18/2 ΕΜΠΡΟΣ ώρα 18.00 ANARCHY AFTER THE DEATH OF THE LEFT Open Talk by Paul Simons (USA)-Anarchy mag

Η ΑΝΑΡΧΙΑ μετά τον θάνατο της Αριστεράς ΟΜΙΛΙΑ ΣΑΒΒ. 18/2 ΩΡΑ: 18.00 Paul Simons- Περιοδικό ANARCHY (a Journal For Desire Armed) Ελεύθερο Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενο Θέατρο Εμπρός (Ρ.Παλαμήδη 2, Ψυρρή) Παρουσίαση / Συζήτηση του μετα-αριστερού Αναρχισμού, μιας από τις βασικές αναρχικές τάσεις στις ΗΠΑ και από τις πιο άρτιες κριτικές στην Αριστερά και τον ρόλο της στην ιστορία των κινημάτων, μέσα από το  ιστορικό πλαίσιο, την ανάλυση και την κατάθεση εμπειριών.  ΘΕΜΑΤΑ:… …

Global movement

Last remaining housing occupation in Bologna has been evicted // Η τελευταία εναπομείνασα κατάληψη στέγης στην Μπολόνια, εκκενώθηκε

The eviction of the last remaining housing occupation in Bologna – around 100 people, 34 of them children, living in a building in Via Mario De Maria, in the working-class neighborhood of Bolognina – started at dawn on October 11. The police and the carabinieri surrounded the block and raided the building, beating people and even using pepper spray, the residents say. The newly elected council member for the housing emergency, Virginia… …

Void Network News

UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE PsyTrance AΣΟΕΕ Fr.29.1.2016 benefit event for the creation new Free Social Space

        UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE  PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE EXPERIENCE FRIDAY 29 JAN. 2016 | starts 23.00 | ΑΣΟΕΕ Οικονομική Σχολή Αθηνών  (Πατησίων 76 / Πλ.Βικτωρίας) 23.00-01.00  WAR (Void Network) 01.00-02.00  CACTUS ARISING                       (Timewarp rec / Void Network) 02.00-03.00  RISING GALAXY 03.00-04.30  JUNIOR X (Void Network) 04.30-0.530  CRYSTAL ZERO                       (Void Network) 05.30-07.00… …

Void Network News

BLACK PANTHER Party: Το Κοινωνικό Πρόγραμμα των Μαύρων Πανθήρων για την ανατροπή της Κυριαρχίας OMIΛΙΑ: GEORGE KATSIAFICAS ΠΑΡ.17/4 ΕΜΠΡΟΣ The social Programme of the Black Panthers against domination at Occupied Theatre Embros in Athens Greece

VOID NETWORK[Theory, Utopia, Empathy, Ephmeral Arts] KENO ΔΙΚΤΥΟ [Θεωρία, Ουτοπία, Συναίσθηση, Εφήμερες Τέχνες] http://voidinternational@gmail.com BLACK PANTHER Party Το Κοινωνικό Πρόγραμμα των Μαύρων Πανθήρων για την ανατροπή της Κυριαρχίας  BLACK PANTHER PARTY The social Programme of the Black Panthers against dominationa lecture and open talk byGEORGE KATSIAFICAS  ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 17 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ 2015 ΩΡΑ ΕΝΑΡΞΗΣ 20.00friday 17/4/2015 starts at 20.00the talk will be in English with Greek translation ΔΙΑΛΕΞΗ/ANOIXTH ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΗ: GEORGE KATSIAFICAS (U.S.A.) Καθ. Κοινωνιολογίας, μαθητής… …

Void Network News

ΚΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ: Πολιτική Ανακοίνωση / κάλεσμα συστράτευσης με τους αγωνιζόμενους κατοίκους στις Σκουριές // Void Network: Political Announcement / Open Call for action in solidarity of the struggle against gold-mine in Skouries

ΚENO ΔΙΚΤΥΟ[Θεωρία, Ουτοπία, Συναίσθηση, Εφήμερες Τέχνες]http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com  Πρέπει να γνωρίζουμε τη θέση μας κάθε στιγμή στα κοινωνικά μέτωπα που αναδύονται γύρω μας και πρέπει να είμαστε σε θέση να βαδίζουμε, να αγαπάμε και να πολεμάμε με τα κεφάλια ψηλά! Τις προηγούμενες ημέρες έχουμε γίνει μάρτυρες δύο σημαντικών αγώνων, που διεξάγονται, εν μέσω αριστερής διαχείρισης του συστήματος. Ο σκληρός αγώνας των πολιτικών κρατούμενων, με τη χρήση του ύστατου μέσου κατά την διάρκεια… …

Void Network News

5th Peoples’ Global Action European Conference Preparatory Meeting Athens Greece

People’s Global Action Temporary Autonomous Zone Talking Circle | Laboratories | Film Festival Polytechnic School of Athens Friday 1 February 2008 starts 9.30 p.m. organized by Void Network http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com andEuropean Peoples’ Global Action Conference http://europe.pgaconference.org more info about P.G.A. network: http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/en/index.html 1st PART : [ talking circle | laboratories ] Open Public Meeting of Peoples’ Global Action NetworkThe world network Peoples’ Global Action appeared in 1998 after a meeting of… …

Events/Void Network News

Nosotros Free Social Space / Athens

Void Optical Arts Concert in Nosotros D.J. set and Void Optical Arts show in Nosotros “The end of Enlightment: The State” Lecture from George Sagriotis in Nosotros Saturday night outside Nosotros (the left building) 2 months Seminar about Political Philospophy in Nosotros (second floor: Lectures, winter cinema, free Greek language lessons to immigrants, assemblies, social work) Nosotros/ Free Social Space two floors and a big tarrace 1st floor for public… …

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