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Does Fanon not refuse to be a slave to history? Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 25

In the brutal logics and practices we have inherited and modified, Black children are not precious. Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 24

If we dare, we are undone by the marginalia of ghosts. Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 23

In other words, while the “idea of horizontality” may be ideology, what it responds to are very real changes in the nature of society: globalization, information technology, and new form of class struggle emerging in response to these. — Read on jasperbernes.substack.com/p/organization-and-its-theories

What, then, might it mean to bear witness and stand with and stand for in our times of ordinary and catastrophic violence? Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 22

In Guinea, doors fly open at the mere mention of Kwame Ture’s name. A senior government minister met me within a few hours’ notice. And when I arrived at Villa Syli to meet a member of Sékou Touré’s old party, the PDG (Parti démocratique de Guinée), I was unexpectedly ushered into a luxurious salon, whereContinue reading “Becoming Kwame Ture – ROAPE”

Anarchists and fellow travellers on Palestine, historically and presently. Anarchists & Fellow Travellers on Palestine

“The police, like the army, are abolished. […] All the people armed, no army outside the people […] The army, as an organized force in support of Authority and the war against Freedom, from the interior to the exterior, must disappear.” Joseph Déjacque, La Législation directe et universelle, 1859 Anarchist Anti-Militarism

“‘The War to end War,’ ‘the War for Democracy.’ What a lying face was hidden under the hideous mask of democracy.” The Black Spectre of War – Emma Goldman (1938)