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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

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… …

Theory

Extinction, Rebellion, Happiness- by Franco ‘BIFO’ Berardi

Ill Will Editions wrote to Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi to ask him what lessons the 1970s Autonomia movement had for our current struggles. His answer? Very little. In this essay, Bifo proposes we rethink autonomy from within the new horizon: that of our own extinction. * * * * * 1. The Invisible Hand is strangling us “The Invisible Hand is one of (neo)classical economics’ most enduring mythologies. Its magical power… …

Global movement

Rozbrat: One of the oldest European squats in Poland calls for solidarity in face of eviction threat

Rozbrat, an anarchist squatted space in Poland, has called for solidarity in face of eviction threat. Rozbrat is located in the western Poland city of Poznan. The property was squatted in 1994 and since then it became an alternative politics and cultural centre. It also serves as a home for over 20 people, and is both temporary and permanent shelter for homeless people. The principal idea behind the space is… …

Global movement

Reclaiming the narrative of the Algerian revolt- by Brahim Roubah

The outcome of the Algerian revolution should not be pre-determined by a (neo)liberal Euro-American global order. Listen to the people. The popular revolt in Algeria is nothing short of a forceful (re)statement of what it means to be human. An active alteration of a people’s state of being. Algerians who, for decades, were reduced to traumatized bystanders, have once again, shaken the dust off and grabbed the reins of history. … …

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… …

Local movement

SOS ΣΑΜΟΘΡΑΚΗ Διήμερο Ενάντια στη Κατασκευή Αιολικού και Υβριδικού Πάρκου- Παρ. 25/8 & Σαββ. 26/8 Two Days of actions against the ecological destruction of Samothrace

Παρασκευή 25/8 στο Πνευματικό κέντρο Χώρας Σαμοθράκης ΟΜΙΛΗΤEΣ 1. Φλώρα Παπαδέδε(οικονομολόγος ΔΕΗ) 2. Γιώργος Δεμερίδης (εκπρόσωπος οικολογικής εταιρείας Έβρου, πρώην δασονόμος) 3. Γιώργος Θεοδωρόπουλος (πολιτικός μηχανικός, μέλος της επιτροπής αγώνα Βερμίου Ημαθίας) 4. Μανώλης Χατζημανώλης (πολιτιστικός ακτιβιστής, πρώην κάτοικος Χίου- Κενό Δίκτυο ) ΜΕΣΩ ΤΗΛΕΔΙΑΣΚΕΨΗΣ 5. Γιώργος Χριστοφορίδης (δικηγόρος) 6. Βασιλική Βαρελά (πολιτικός μηχανικός, Συλλογος Προστασίας Περιβάλλοντος Νότιας Καρυστίας) 7. Παρέμβαση και ενημέρωση από μέλη της συντονιστικής ομάδας Ρεθύμνου, του… …

Theory

Trojan Horses- Activist art and power by Lucy Lippard- a historic essay positively revisited

Positively Trojan Horses Revisited  Lucy Lippard’s famous essay on activist art should need no introduction or art historical contextualization; what’s more, “Trojan Horses: Activist Art and Power”  published in the seminal 1984 anthology Art After Modernism, represents but one entry point into a truly impressive body of work dedicated to the politics of art and representation from the 1960s up to today. As such, the essay can be situated both in an… …

Theory

CONCERNING ART AND SOCIAL CHANGE By Marco Deseriis and Brian Holmes

The 2007 reader Art and Social Change offers a genealogy of today’s radical cultures. Here, Brian Holmes and Marco Deseriis glean insights from the book into today’s dilemma of producing critical culture within recuperative ‘semiocapitalism’ Among the groundswell of books investigating the link between aesthetics and politics, Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader is particularly ambitious. Published in 2007 as a companion volume to the historical survey exhibition Forms… …

Theory

Stop Kidding Yourself! The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People- by Sam Mitrani

In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to protect and serve the population. That is, after all, what they were created to do. If only the normal, decent relations between the police and the community could be re-established, this problem could be resolved. Poor people in general are more likely to be… …

Void Network News

UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE Nosotros Free Social Space 10 YEARS celebration SAT. 9/4/2016

UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE Nosotros Free Social Space: 10 Years against social apathy SATURDAY 9 APRIL 2016 starts 23.00 TECHNO STAGE Venus Melena Loo (aka Berlin Brides) Junior X War POST PUNK STAGE Sanity Assasssin Chaotic Moon Grinding Halt Free Social Space NOSOTROS Themistokleous 66 Exarchia https://www.facebook.com/NosotrosSocialCentre/?fref=ts To Kενό Δίκτυο έχοντας πάρει μέρος στην δημιουργία, οργάνωση και λειτουργία του Ελεύθερου Κοινωνικού Χώρου ΝΟSOTROS συμμετέχει στον μήνα εορταστικών εκδηλώσεων για τα ΔΕΚΑ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ… …

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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… …

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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… …

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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… …

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