‘This was “their revolution of life”, a long-term transformation that began to change ways of life, personal relationships, work, “care” and an endless number of other aspects, paying attention to the small, to the quiet, to the intimate, to the breath of each body. These women glimpsed other possible worlds and, despite the defeat, they…
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China Miéville’s foray into popular history, “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution”
Loren Balhorn: “The Lost History of Antifa”
Olivier Roy: “Who are the new jihadis?”
“Biographies of ‘homegrown’ European terrorists show they are violent nihilists who adopt Islam, rather than religious fundamentalists who turn to violence. … To summarise: the typical radical is a young, second-generation immigrant or convert, very often involved in episodes of petty crime, with practically no religious education, but having a rapid and recent trajectory of…
Isaín Mandujano: “Subcomandante Galeano: What’s coming will be worse”
In his video presentation, Subcomandante Galeano, of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, pointed out “that the struggle of the original peoples cannot nor ought to be circumscribed to Mexico; it must lift up the view, the ear and the word to include the whole continent, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.”
Dahr Jamail: ”’Storm the Heavens”: Notes From the Weather Underground on Resistance to Trump’
‘The Weathermen were motivated to join the radical group because “revolution was on the march around the world.” National liberation movements were gaining steam throughout the Third World, and were actually able to seize power in about a dozen countries. “The most oppressed, the ‘wretched of the Earth,’ were reshaping the world in a more…
Liz Scheer: “‘Resistance’ and Liberal Activism: The problems with using the word ‘Resist'”
‘I want to conclude by suggesting that this “radical vigilance” is the most viable form of “resistance” that is available to us, and it is this slogan that should undergird our activist work. Radical vigilance is a kind of resistance in so far as it corresponds both to a rigorous quest for the truth, and…
Jennifer Schuessler: “A New Museum of the American Revolution, Warts and All”
The new Museum of the American Revolution opens in Philadelphia: “If it doesn’t quite throw the old heroic narrative out the window, it does draw on decades of scholarship that has emphasized the conflicts and contradictions within the Revolution, while also taking a distinctly bottom-up view of events.”
Raquel Garrido interviewed by Cole Stangler: “France Rebels”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign for the French presidency, and the populist movement behind it, France Insoumise (“Rebellious France”), “isn’t seeking leadership of a marginalized left. He’s aiming to transform the whole of French politics.”
Serhun Al: “The making of the modern Kurdish Middle East”
Will there be a Kurdistan? “An overarching Kurdish public opinion is strongly in the making, cutting across borders with the self-consciousness of being their own agents rather than the instruments of ‘others’. This mental independence is creating the modern Kurdish world from north-western Iran (Rojhelat) to northern Syria (Rojava) and from south-eastern Turkey (Bakur)…