It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago MartĂnez presented himself before the army commander stationed in the frontier Colombian town of QuibdĂł for service in the republican army. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the …
The first time you loot a shopping center in Bloc by Bloc—”The Insurrection Game”—you’ll leave the streets covered in mutinous graffiti. The second time through, you’ll set the buildings ablaze and salt the earth. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Flip Over Police Vans and …
Jalil Muntaqim, a former Black Panther who has been in prison for 47 years, has been told he must spend at least another 15 months behind bars having been denied release for the ninth time by a New York state parole board. Read the rest of this article, from The …
C’est une opposition souterraine, avec ses codes, ses points de rendez-vous et ses batailles. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Dans les manifs de gilets jaunes, la guerre souterraine entre « antifas » et « fachos »
References to “secularism”, “national identity” or “immigration” by Macron are not a mere “diversion” to from the supposed “real problems” put on the table by the #giletsjaunes movement. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Macron and French racism as social relationship
Today’s fascists aren’t like yesterday’s fascists. Today’s antifascists aren’t like yesterday’s antifascists. What will tomorrow bring? 2017 was the year the “alt-right” entered the mainstream. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Anti-Anti-Antifa
Misogynists are compiling massive databases of sex workers in and effort to threaten, harm, and harass them for making a living. People participating in the viral harassment campaign known as #ThotAudit seek to make it more difficult for those in the sex trade to work. Read the rest of this …
An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno. During my three months inside New York’s alt-right, The Daily Stormer Book Club never got around to reading any books. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Three Months Inside Alt-Right New York
Brazil has been lobotomised twice in the last two months. In the first lobotomy on 2 September, the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was burnt down, in a catastrophe directly attributable to the austerity policies of current president Michel Temer. Read the rest of this post on the original …
On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Americans Strongly Dislike PC …