Alexandros Schismenos: Digital Identity And Direct Democracy
It is my opinion that next generations will regard the emerge of the internet not as a technological revolution, but as an ontological one. The word 'ontological' may seem as an abuse of definitions, but...
Rebel Diaz: “Soy Rebelde” 2012
Rebel Diaz releases the street single "Soy Rebelde" off their long anticipated debut album Radical Dilemma.
Philip Rizk: State Crime and Street Crime: Two Sides of One Coin?
When society is this corrupt, are the poor entitled to rise up and take what is 'theirs'?
Egypt’s Democracy: A Question of Legitimacy
Although Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down in February 2011, the uprisings in Egypt show little sign of retreat. While the uniting rallying cry may have been against dictatorship, the struggle in Egypt that took headlines across the world in early 2011 reflected deeper social, political, and economic problems.
DSG: Autonomy Tonight / Utopia Tomorrow – DSG Is Over
DSG believe in building appropriate tools for struggle. We formed DSG at the end of 2010 out of a need; the need for a place to discuss issues of class-struggle that are broader or more imaginative than were already on offer, and a need to produce propaganda which travels with that struggle in a form more alive to our everyday realities.
Laurie Penny: On the streets with Bloomberg’s “private army”
"Whose tweets? Our tweets!" Sometimes, only puns will do.
Corinna Lotz: Anti-Putin movement marks end of an era
Russia’s street protest movement, which has shaken not only the Kremlin’s autocrats but global financial markets, is the largest for two decades, and is the end of an era.
Ahmed Masoud: The Arab Spring: A Palestinian Perspective
In the fourth instalment of our series of Arab reflections on the regional uprisings, award-winning Palestinian author and playwright Ahmed Masoud explores the impact of the Arab Spring on the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice.
Emily Lawrence: Circus School in Palestine – Cultural Resistance with a Creative Spin
In a lively playground in the small West Bank town of Birzeit, a few kilometers north of Ramallah, an acrobat swings on a trapeze, expertly balancing and performing for the large group of children gathered below. Everywhere there is wild activity and life; children spinning plates, juggling balls and batons, and throwing colored hoops and diablos into the air in the bright winter sun.
Rubén Martínez: Occupy’s deep L.A. roots
It wasn't easy being a radical in Los Angeles during the early 20th century.
Guy Dixon: Documentary a clear-eyed look at the nonconformist’s nonconformist
Writer Paul Goodman was forever being labelled: pacifist and anarchist, bisexualist and “poverty cultist.”
Paul Feldman: The 99% lose out all over Europe
In the end, the “choice” was between a British government determined to protect the City of London at all costs and the rest of the European Union agreeing to allow bureaucrats to impose co-ordinated spending cuts on their increasingly angry populations.
DSG: Ten Growth Markets for Crisis
A short series of speculative projections for new territories of struggle and focuses for future ideological ruptures.
Ama Biney: Frantz Fanon’s Enduring Relevance
Fifty years since the untimely death on 6 December 1961 of Frantz Fanon, he continues to have immense relevance in our times. His writings were focused on the dialectics of the colonised and the coloniser during the era of the 1960s. Whilst that era has passed, new forms of colonialism between Africa and the former colonial powers, or Africa and the developed world, now manifest in the 21st century.
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Rebel Diaz: “Soy Rebelde” 2012
By Rebel Diaz: Rebel Diaz releases the street single “Soy Rebelde” off their long anticipated debut album Radical Dilemma. True to the group’s bilingual form, the song samples a late 60s spanish pop ballad, “Soy Rebelde, porque el mundo me hecho asi..” (I’m a Rebel, because the world has made me this way…”). Soy Rebelde- Produced by G1 of Rebel Diaz, Performed by G1 and RodStarz of Rebel Diaz. Shot, Edited and Produced by Internationally Acclaimed Liberation Photographer Pocho1, the video’s documentary style follows Rebel Diaz’s recent tours throughout Europe and Latin America, as well as images of their community arts work in the South Bronx and beyond. Pocho1 of Pocho1 Visual Movement (P1VM) 2012. www.pocho1.com. follow us! @rebeldiaz @rdacbx www.rebeldiaz.com www.rdacbx.org … Read entire article »
Philip Rizk: State Crime and Street Crime: Two Sides of One Coin?
By Philip Rizk: When society is this corrupt, are the poor entitled to rise up and take what is ‘theirs’? Cairo, Egypt - The revolutionary process that erupted in this country on January 25, 2011, is an uprising against crime. This crime was structural and legalised – made legal by the political leadership of Egypt and their friends and business partners that practice it. Various criminal forces – the police, the secret police, the state security – exist in large part to protect these criminals’ interests, with authority to enforce the ruling classes’ “law” without judicial liability. These forces were the first line of defence of the ruling system and this is why, in the first days of revolution, … Read entire article »
Egypt’s Democracy: A Question of Legitimacy
By Brandon Jourdan Egypt’s Democracy: A Question of Legitimacy from brandon jourdan on Vimeo. Although Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down in February 2011, the uprisings in Egypt show little sign of retreat. While the uniting rallying cry may have been against dictatorship, the struggle in Egypt that took headlines across the world in early 2011 reflected deeper social, political, and … Read entire article »
DSG: Autonomy Tonight / Utopia Tomorrow – DSG Is Over
By DSG: (pdf) DSG believe in building appropriate tools for struggle. We formed DSG at the end of 2010 out of a need; the need for a place to discuss issues of class-struggle that are broader or more imaginative than were already on offer, and a need to produce propaganda which travels with that struggle in a form more alive to our … Read entire article »
Laurie Penny: On the streets with Bloomberg’s “private army”
By Laurie Penny “Whose tweets? Our tweets!” Sometimes, only puns will do. The Brookfield Winter Garden is the sort of aggressively bland corporate un-place where scuffles with the NYPD are not supposed to happen. The financial district of New York is full of spaces like this: soulless private-public atriums full of force-grown unseasonal greenery, glistening 1980s marble and glaze-eyed commuters on their way … Read entire article »
Corinna Lotz: Anti-Putin movement marks end of an era
By Corinna Lotz Russia’s street protest movement, which has shaken not only the Kremlin’s autocrats but global financial markets, is the largest for two decades, and is the end of an era. The pro-capitalist triumphalism of the early 1990s has turned into disenchantment, not just with the sham democracy which voters experienced earlier this month, but with the corruption of a mafia-style capitalism. The … Read entire article »
Ahmed Masoud: The Arab Spring: A Palestinian Perspective
By Ahmed Masoud In the fourth instalment of our series of Arab reflections on the regional uprisings, award-winning Palestinian author and playwright Ahmed Masoud explores the impact of the Arab Spring on the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice. While upheaval has been sweeping the Arab World since the start of the year, Palestinians seem to have taken a different approach to their … Read entire article »
Emily Lawrence: Circus School in Palestine – Cultural Resistance with a Creative Spin
By Emily Lawrence In a lively playground in the small West Bank town of Birzeit, a few kilometers north of Ramallah, an acrobat swings on a trapeze, expertly balancing and performing for the large group of children gathered below. Everywhere there is wild activity and life; children spinning plates, juggling balls and batons, and throwing colored hoops and diablos into the air … Read entire article »
Rubén Martínez: Occupy’s deep L.A. roots
By Rubén Martínez It wasn’t easy being a radical in Los Angeles during the early 20th century. Shortly before Occupy L.A. was evicted from the City Hall grounds, I noticed a sign at the corner of Spring and Temple. It was a large white cloth with big block letters stenciled in black that read: “TIERRA Y LIBERTAD,” or “Land and Liberty.” The slogan had … Read entire article »
Guy Dixon: Documentary a clear-eyed look at the nonconformist’s nonconformist
By Guy Dixon Writer Paul Goodman was forever being labelled: pacifist and anarchist, bisexualist and “poverty cultist.” The latter was according to conservative William F. Buckley Jr. on an old, black-and-white episode of the TV talk show Firing Line. Appearing on the program, Goodman denied “poverty cultist.” Paul Goodman Changed My Life Yet, as the documentary Paul Goodman Changed My Life shows, Goodman never completely matched any … Read entire article »
Paul Feldman: The 99% lose out all over Europe
By Paul Feldman In the end, the “choice” was between a British government determined to protect the City of London at all costs and the rest of the European Union agreeing to allow bureaucrats to impose co-ordinated spending cuts on their increasingly angry populations. Thus the “interests” at stake in the all-night crisis summit in Brussels were essentially the same – whatever side … Read entire article »
DSG: Ten Growth Markets for Crisis
By Deterritorial Support Group From the DSG think-tank: a short series of speculative projections for new territories of struggle and focuses for future ideological ruptures. Download the full report here. Ten Growth Markets for Crisis: A Trend Forecast I have long believed we do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical … Read entire article »
Ama Biney: Frantz Fanon’s Enduring Relevance
By Ama Biney Fifty years since the untimely death on 6 December 1961 of Frantz Fanon, he continues to have immense relevance in our times. His writings were focused on the dialectics of the colonised and the coloniser during the era of the 1960s. Whilst that era has passed, new forms of colonialism between Africa and the former colonial powers, or … Read entire article »
Paul Feldman: Headless chickens rule EU roost
By Paul Feldman A French president playing second fiddle to a German chancellor announcing a “fiscal union” to keep eurozone spending under control was patently an uncomfortable moment for Nicolas Sarkozy. His misery was written all over his face. Perhaps Sarkozy was reflecting on historical precedents from past conflicts between the two countries while he was standing next to Angela Merkel. More likely, … Read entire article »
Caitlin Bruce: Russia co-opts radical shock art
By Caitlin Bruce Kremlin and mass media seek to depoliticize Voina through appropriation and integration into the mainstream art world. For the last year Vorotnikov and Nikolaev have been waging a legal battle with Russian authorities for their freedom. While these challenges facing Voina have been welldocumented on Art Threat, Free Voina, and other alternative media sources, another battle is being fought: against state, art world, and dominant … Read entire article »
Agence France-Press: Anti-Wall Street Groups Arrive for Washington meet
By Agence France-Press WASHINGTON — Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters and union activists on Monday began to arrive in Washington for a campaign in which they aim to “Take back the Capitol from corporate control.” A week of demonstrations and sit-ins are planned “in the name of the 99 percent,” that the anti-corporate movement says has been sidelined as lobbyists have bought up … Read entire article »
#OCCUPYOURHOMES #OWS #DECEMBER6 #D6 – GET THE WORD OUT
#OCCUPYOURHOMES #OWS #DECEMBER6 #D6 – GET THE WORD OUT from Rhodes Pictures on Vimeo. On December 3rd, community activists and occupiers canvassed East New York, Brooklyn in preparation for December 6th National Day of Action. Just from the few hours, conversing and handing out flyers, over 300 community members are already interested in being involved. “This action is part of a national kick-off … Read entire article »
Corinna Lotz: Russians Revolt Against Fraud Elections
By Corinna Lotz The dramatic slump in United Russia’s share of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections shows that voters defied a massive campaign of intimidation aimed at bolstering support for the ruling party. President Medvedev and prime minister Putin’s party saw its share fall from around 64% to just under half after a campaign in which the Kremlin tried to bully the … Read entire article »
Jessica Whyte: Awakening the Giant
By Jessica Whyte In 2010, Slavoj Žižek, whom the New Republic once dubbed the most dangerous philosopher in the West, gave a public lecture at the London School of Economics on the necessity of communism. The audience at this elite university overflowed the auditorium into a nearby room, watching through a video link. At one point, the evening’s host, the international relations theorist David Held … Read entire article »
Melanie Asmar: Ricardo Flores Magon Academy – Why was embattled school named for anarchist writer?
By Melanie Asmar This week’s cover story, “A Hard Line,” takes a look at the Ricardo Flores Magon Academy, a charter school in Westminster with both high test scores and a high number of former teachers, one of whom recently filed a discrimination lawsuit against the school. Among complaints voiced by some former teachers is that the students there are called “Magonistas” … Read entire article »
Thai Jones: Occupy Protests Show Radical Potential – Through Decades, Confrontation and Consensus Can Coexist
By Thai Jones At the end of a long day of peaceful demonstrations in Oakland this past November, a few hundred protesters — many wearing masks or covering their faces with bandanas — massed for a night of rage, smashing windows, chucking rocks and sparking bonfires. In the aftermath, the city’s police chief described the perpetrators as “generally anarchists and provocateurs.” Across … Read entire article »
Guy Rocha: ‘Most dangerous’ woman lectured in Reno in 1910
By Guy Rocha Director Clint Eastwood’s recently released movie, “J. Edgar,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio as longtime FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, features anarchist Emma Goldman early in the film. Labeled by Hoover in 1919 as “one of the most dangerous women in American,” Goldman had lectured in Reno in 1910. She arrived with her manager and companion, Dr. Ben Reitman, by train from … Read entire article »
Brandon Jourdan: November 30th – UK on Strike
By Brandon Jourdan November 30th: UK on Strike from brandon jourdan on Vimeo. On November 30th, 2011 millions of public sector workers across the UK went on strike against massive cuts in the pension system. The following is a short documentary about the strikes. … Read entire article »
Paul Feldman: Don’t lose pension strike momentum
By Paul Feldman The commitment shown by at least 1.5 million workers in 29 unions who staged a 24-hour strike against attacks on pensions, and marched in cities and towns in their tens of thousands, is now in jeopardy. Union leaders are resuming talks with the ConDem coalition today in a bid to reach a settlement before the government’s imposed deadline of … Read entire article »