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Mark Bray Interview on The End of the World As We Know It

The New Significance interviews author Mark Bray about his contribution to the book The End of the World As We Know It?

Mark Bray Interview on The End of the World As We Know It Mark Bray Interview on The End of the World As We Know It

Marcos is Dead. Long Live Marcos!

Brian Dominick explains that it is like hearing his favorite artist has died.

Marcos is Dead. Long Live Marcos! Marcos is Dead. Long Live Marcos!

Rebel Diaz (feat. King Capo) – “La Patrulla” Video

Video for "La Patrulla" off of Rebel Diaz's full-length debut, Radical Dilemma.

Rebel Diaz (feat. King Capo) – “La Patrulla” Video Rebel Diaz (feat. King Capo) - "La Patrulla" Video

UKIP-The Ground Work Was Done For Them

By Tim Forster: Like many on the Left I have been troubled and puzzled by the UK Independence Party’s strong showing in the Local and European elections.

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The End of Meaning-making As We Know It?

The New Significance Interviews Antonis Vradis on Crisis, Revolt, and Making Meaning in Greece

The End of Meaning-making As We Know It? The End of Meaning-making As We Know It?

Comix Ergo Sum – Aristotle

This is the fourth segment of a multi-part comic series that The New Significance is publishing: Comix Ergo Sum by Alexander Schismenos...

Comix Ergo Sum – Aristotle Comix Ergo Sum – Aristotle

Christian Anarchism & Direct Action

Tim Forster interviews Keith Hebden: I think anarchism explains Christianity. So I guess the most important lesson anarchism can teach Christianity is how to do Christianity more authentically.

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Zapatista Escuelita: Autonomous Government I

In January 2014 The New Significance participated with many others in the Zapatista Escuelita, held in the Chiapas mountains of southern Mexico...

Zapatista Escuelita: Autonomous Government I Zapatista Escuelita: Autonomous Government I

Future Suspended

How does a global financial crisis permeate the spaces of the everyday in a city? This documentary film traces the multiple transformations of crisis-ridden Athenian public space and those who traverse it.

Future Suspended Future Suspended

Cornelious Castoriadis about Autonomy and Democracy (1984)

Interview with Cornelius Castoriadis for the Greek television network ET1, for the show "Paraskinio,"… [more]

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Hanin Elias Interview: The Music of Fantome, Misunderstandings & More

Tim Forster interviews Hanin Elias about Fantome, fishing, misunderstandings and more.

Hanin Elias Interview: The Music of Fantome, Misunderstandings & More Hanin Elias Interview: The Music of Fantome, Misunderstandings & More

GW Sok Interview: The Ex, Anarchy & Music

Renown Dutch anarchist and ex lead singer with The Ex interviewed by Tim Forster.

GW Sok Interview: The Ex, Anarchy & Music GW Sok Interview: The Ex, Anarchy & Music

Comix Ergo Sum – Plato

This is the third segment of a multi-part comic series -- Comix Ergo Sum by Alexander Schismenos -- that The New Significance is publishing...

Comix Ergo Sum – Plato Comix Ergo Sum – Plato

Anarchy’s Time is About Now!

By Tim Forster: Anarchism did not go away and has hung around waiting its time...

Anarchy’s Time is About Now! Anarchy's Time is About Now!

Anarchism in Madrid

A short video by Mark Bray...

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Marcos is Dead. Long Live Marcos!

Marcos is Dead. Long Live Marcos!

By Brian Dominick: It took me a while to absorb the news. It’s like hearing your favorite artist has died. (I don’t have one of those, but I do have a favorite living revolutionary.) At 2:08 am this morning, Subcomandante Marcos announced that as of that moment, he had ceased to exist. In a statement made before those attending a tribute to Galeano, the Zapatista … Read entire article »

Rebel Diaz (feat. King Capo) – “La Patrulla” Video

Rebel Diaz (feat. King Capo) – “La Patrulla” Video

Video for “La Patrulla” (feat. King Capo) off of Rebel Diaz’s full-length debut, Radical Dilemma. Referencing “La Patrulla”- or the ‘the patrol’, the police- this bilingual collaboration between Rebel Diaz and King Capo speaks to the issue of police violence, hyper vigilance, and mass incarceration in our communities. … Read entire article »

UKIP-The Ground Work Was Done For Them

UKIP-The Ground Work Was Done For Them

By Tim Forster: Like many on the Left I have been troubled and puzzled by the UK Independence Party’s (UKIP) strong showing in the Local and European elections. Was it a protest vote against the big three Parties, an anti-EU vote or an anti-immigration vote? UKIP’s policies in 2010 included attacks on welfare provision, more prison places, privatisation of parts of the National Health … Read entire article »

The End of Meaning-making As We Know It?

The End of Meaning-making As We Know It?

  The New Significance Interviews Antonis Vradis on Crisis, Revolt, and Making Meaning in Greece TNS: Hi Antonis and thanks for taking the time to do this interview. Before we begin, can you tell us a bit about yourself and the projects you’re currently involved in? Thank you for this opportunity! Sure—I am a member of Occupied London, a collective that had been … Read entire article »

Comix Ergo Sum – Aristotle

Comix Ergo Sum – Aristotle

  By Alexander Schismenos: This is the fourth segment of a multi-part comic series that The New Significance is publishing: Comix Ergo Sum by Alexander Schismenos, translated from Greek to English. Navigation: Pt. 1 / Pt. 2 / Pt. 3 / Pt. 4 / Pt. 5 coming…   … Read entire article »

Christian Anarchism & Direct Action

Christian Anarchism & Direct Action

  Tim Forster interviews Keith Hebden: From humble beginnings the Christian faith and its collective expression, the Church, spread rapidly through the Roman World and after experiencing several periods of persecution was co-opted by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th Century CE as the official state religion of the Roman Empire. Since then the Church has had a chequered history globally often working … Read entire article »

Zapatista Escuelita: Autonomous Government I

Zapatista Escuelita: Autonomous Government I

  By The New Significance: In January 2014 The New Significance participated in the third Zapatista Escuelita, held in the mountains of southern Mexico, Chiapas. We went to learn about the – more than 20 year – Zapatista struggle for indigenous autonomy and self-governance. The Escuelita (little school) hosted more than 1,500 individuals and included visiting one of the five caracoles representing numerous Zapatista … Read entire article »

Future Suspended

Future Suspended

How does a global financial crisis permeate the spaces of the everyday in a city? This documentary film traces the multiple transformations of crisis-ridden Athenian public space and those who traverse it. In three parts, Future Suspended navigates its way through the past and the present of the crisis as it gets inscribed in Athens dwellers’ minds, and as it plays … Read entire article »

Cornelious Castoriadis about Autonomy and Democracy (1984)

Cornelious Castoriadis about Autonomy and Democracy (1984)

Interview with Cornelius Castoriadis for the Greek television network ET1, for the show “Paraskinio,” 1984 (with English-language subtitles). Translated from Greek to English by TNS friends in Bulgaria. Video in Greek from publicly available online source. English translation: Ioanna For more information see the Cornelius Castoriadis/Agora International Website: agorainternational.org … Read entire article »

Hanin Elias Interview: The Music of Fantome, Misunderstandings & More

Hanin Elias Interview: The Music of Fantome, Misunderstandings & More

  Tim Forster interviews Hanin Elias: At the end of January in a Berlin club ‘Fantome’, Hanin Elias’ and Marcel Zurcher’s new band, gave their first live performance. Afterwards Hanin talked about Fantome, fishing, misunderstandings and life post Atari Teenage Riot (ATR). Your latest band is Fantome with Marcel Zurcher-could you explain how that came about? Yeah, Marcel and I met and we … Read entire article »

GW Sok Interview: The Ex, Anarchy & Music

GW Sok Interview: The Ex, Anarchy & Music

By Tim Forster: Last October I caught a track by ‘King Champion Sounds’ on Radio 6 and was excited by something that sounded somewhere between ‘The Beat’ and ‘The Psychedelic Furs’-although that may be contested! Later that month I was lucky to see them at a small venue just outside Highbury and Islington Tube-brilliant! At the gig I got a copy … Read entire article »

Comix Ergo Sum – Plato

Comix Ergo Sum – Plato

  By Alexander Schismenos: This is the third segment of a multi-part comic series that The New Significance is publishing: Comix Ergo Sum by Alexander Schismenos, translated from Greek to English. Navigation: Pt. 1 / Pt. 2 / Pt. 3 / Pt. 4 / Pt. 5 coming…     … Read entire article »

Anarchy’s Time is About Now!

Anarchy’s Time is About Now!

By Tim Forster: Despite attempts by government to individualise mental health problems — presenting them as the illness of the individual — it is obvious that we live in an ill society that generates ill people. Studies show that individuals are happier within societies that are more equal — wide disparities of income and wealth create societies that are less happy … Read entire article »

Anarchism in Madrid

Anarchism in Madrid

By Mark Bray: Short documentary about anarchism and anarchist groups, unions, and projects in Madrid made by Mark Bray in 2013. For more info: http://cnt.es http://cgt.es http://www.solidaridadobrera.org http://www.sush.es http://www.nodo50.org/sasmadrid/notic… http://www.nodo50.org/juventudesliber… http://grupolibertarioacciondirecta.w… http://www.localanarquistamagdalena.org http://ateneolibertariodehortaleza.org http://www.fel-web.org https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oveja-… http://www.lamalatesta.net https://www.facebook.com/panaderia.la… … Read entire article »

Impossible Biographies

Impossible Biographies

By Ross Domoney: Many years before the first clouds of the crisis would hover over the Greek skies, amidst Greek society’s most glorious of moments and its most mundane of days, the lives and labour of migrants would be faced with their meticulous devaluation. For them, the crisis has by now come of age. Yet despite and against shallow journalistic interpretations, there … Read entire article »

Rebel Diaz – “I’m An Alien”

Rebel Diaz – “I’m An Alien”

“This song and video are inspired by the actions of youth in Arizona defending immigrant rights; by the urgent struggle to change the narrative on the issue of mass incarceration; by our friends, families, and neighbors struggling to live a life of dignity in the face of constant attacks on workers, immigrants, and youth. We are called aliens to deny … Read entire article »