by Sandro Mezzadra Liberté, liberté! This chant – belted out by 49 refugees and migrants in the moment of their landing at Lampedusa last Tuesday – contains the real meaning of what has happened around the Mare Jonio over the last few days, Mediterranea‘s ship. And this is the cry that narrates the drama of […]
You Can’t Detain The Stubbornness of Freedom Read More »
Inter/Transnational
Since the fascist terrorist attack against Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, we believe that this article is urgent in understanding what fascism is and how to effectively fight against it. Simply labelling the recent fascist attacks as ‘mere anomalies’, or as ‘the acts of singular individuals’, ignores the structural racism and Islamophobia that permeate the
How to fight fascism: It might seem obvious, but is it? Read More »
Anti-fascism
Last Friday, on International Women’s Day, thousands of feminists of all genders took to the streets in seven cities across the UK to engage in the Women’s Strike, a global mobilisation taking place in over fifty countries. We have collected here the reports shared by the local organisers on the Women’s Strike Assembly page (pictures
On 8 March we struck! Reports from the Women’s Strike Read More »
Feminism
On the 12th March 2019 students, activists and academics have taken action against the visit of the former Italian Minister of Interior, Marco Minniti, the architect of Italy’s policy to externalisation of the EU border to Libya and the sealing of the Mediterranean route. A scheduled talk at the London School of Economics (LSE)
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Borders/Migration, State Violence
The Women’s Strike in Britain began with women coming together to explore our visions of the red feminist horizon – what it could look like and how, crucially – how we could get there. The argument that we want to make is that the Women’s Strike is not a one-day event set to coincide with
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Feminism, Popular Education
ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION MEXICO February 2019 To: Women in struggle everywhere in the world From: The Zapatista Women Sister, compañera: We as Zapatista women send you our greetings as the women in struggle that we all are. We have sad news for you today, which is that we are not going to be
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Counter-power, Feminism, Inter/Transnational
Jineolojî literally means ‘women’s science’ — the word derives from jin, Kurdish for woman. Jineolojî is a critique of the approaches of positivist social sciences, which uphold the structures of states, patriarchy and capital. For the Kurdish women’s liberation movement, jineology is the fundamental theoretical underpinning of new forms of social organisation: it involves engagement
Jin, Jiyan, Azadi! Experiences from the UK’s first Jineology camp Read More »
Feminism, Kurdistan
Over the last 12 months we have seen the reemergence of the far-right onto the streets of Britain. Under various different banners the far-right have been pulling thousands of people onto the streets across the country on a sustained basis. With this new movement have come intimidation and attacks of left-wing organisers. Last summer the
Press Release from network of Red Gyms Read More »
Anti-fascism
Kurdistan Solidarity Network @ShoalCollective have mapped the locations of companies in the UK who are supporting and arming Turkey’s war against Rojava and its own Kurdish population
Join us in London on Saturday January 19th as we show solidarity with Russian anti-fascists currently being tortured and repressed by the Russian state, 2pm at CABLE STREET MEMORIAL. 19-1-19 // CABLE STREET MEMORIAL, London, E1 0BL (Facebook event, here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1954513344639049/) Russian anti-fascists and anarchists are being arrested, framed and tortured in a brutal wave of repression which has put
Russian anti-fascists under attack: London Solidarity demo Read More »
Actions, Anti-fascism, Borders/Migration, Counter-power, Feminism, Inter/Transnational, Strike
As the Gilets Jaunes movement continues, we republish this article by Paul Cudenec of the Shoal Collective. The article results from participant observation among the Gilets Jaunes in the Southern French town of Nîmes, it was originally published by Winter Oak. I had been warned not to say anything to anyone about the meet-up point
“Police everywhere, justice nowhere!”: Gilets Jaunes on the streets of Nîmes Read More »
Inter/Transnational
The following text was produced to accompany a creative workshop by Plan C Aesthetics Cluster at the Fast Forward festival 2018, entitled: Building New Kinds of Barricades. Over the course of the weekend, we collectively managed to instigate the spontaneous construction of three different barricades: one which accumulated on site over the course of the
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Counter-power, Uncategorised