By Fathi Chamkhi | Amandla! magazine Issue 57 | 6 July 2018 Seven years after the revolution of 2011, which toppled the dictator, Tunisia is going from bad to worse! All key economic and social indicators are at their lowest levels. The economy continues to idle, fueling the crisis in all sectors. Deficits and underperformance are beating all previous records. The index of industrial activity, the budget deficit, the government… …
We try to follow the news but its not easy. Nazi govern USA and the federal government using police and the army for building concentration camps all over AmeriKKKa. For one more time in history as in in previous decades in Africa, in Australia (with the Aboriginals) and in Europe (with Roma, communists, anarchists, disabled people and Jews) the USA government take the kids of the people in custody, steal… …
From Occupy to Ferguson, whenever a new grassroots movement arises, pundits charge that it lacks clear demands. Why won’t protesters summarize their goals as a coherent program? Why aren’t there representatives who can negotiate with the authorities to advance a concrete agenda through institutional channels? Why can’t these movements express themselves in familiar language, with proper etiquette? Often, this is simply disingenuous rhetoric from those who prefer for movements to limit… …
H ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΗ όπως και ο Χρόνος*, είναι δύο σημαίνοντα τα οποία αναζητούν στην πολύπλοκη και γεμάτη αντιφάσεις εκτύλιξη κοινωνικής-ιστορικής διαδικασίας, την ανανοηματοδότηση τους. Ο 21ος αιώνας ένας άγριος και τρομερός ως προς τα διακυβεύματα του αιώνας, μόλις τώρα αρχίζει πλέον να δείχνει τις φοβερότερες προεκτάσεις του προσώπου του. Χρέος όσων απο εμάς επιζητούν την υπέρβαση αυτών των πλευρών και την συνολικοποίηση μιας διαφορετικής προσέγγισης σύμφωνης με την εποχή μας, που όμως… …
For two thousand years, the peoples residing in Zomia — the mountainous region that stretches from the Central Highlands of Vietnam to northeastern India — have fled the organized state societies in the valleys. Far from being ‘remnants’ left behind by civilizing societies, they are “barbarians by choice”, peoples who have deliberately put distance between themselves and lowland, state-centers. James Scott, director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale… …
NO NAME DIVIDES US NO NATION UNITES US PROLETARIANS HAVE NO MOTHER COUNTRY The resurgence of the “Macedonian issue” has been a rare opportunity for all kinds of nationalist and fascist scums to take up space in the public discourse and try to promote their murderous political plans. The nationalist rallies in Thessaloniki and Athens served this very purpose. It became obvious, even to the most naive, that the supposedly… …
Punitive raids were expanded at the turn of the month, as police continue to try and pin recent incendiary attacks in Porto Alegre on the anarchist movement. Activists in the city reported on November 30th that: Operation Erebo (Operação Érebo) attacked anarchists once again. They invaded some houses, stealing things and destroying everything in their path. At this stage we don’t know whether any other homes were invaded. Communication is precarious… …
Black Snake Killaz is a feature-length documentary film about the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipelinein Standing Rock. This film explores actions taken by water protectors to stop the construction of the oil pipeline and highlights actions taken by law enforcement, military, and corporate mercenaries to quell the months-long protest. Black Snake Killaz timelines the historical events that unfolded in Standing Rock throughout 2016 and brings you the raw experience… …
Refugees face brutal miseries. When we talked to some of Rohingya refugees, they have revealed more painful truths about the refugee crisis and the atrocities encountered by them by their homeland rulers and their mango-twigs. “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Rahm Emanuel article written by Anwar A. Khan… …
Τhe 32 year old anti-fascist, Heather Heyer, was killed when a well-known fascist who was participating at the american alt-rights’ gathering in the town of Charlottesville deliberately ran his car over a large number of anti-fascists, causing the death of the 32 year old and dozens of injured, with some of them very seriously. Let us begin with this: with most recent example the attacks in Barcelona, the Islamic State… …
The German government has shut down the German Indymedia site linksunten.indymedia.org, the most widely used German-language platform for radical politics and organizing. They have also conducted raids in Freiburg to seize computers and harass those they accuse of maintaining the site, absurdly justifying this on the grounds that the alleged administrators constitute an illegal organization for the sake of destroying the German Constitution. This represents a massive escalation in state repression against what the authorities… …
How do contemporary forms of subjugation of life to the power of death (necropolitics) profoundly reconfigure the relation between resistance, sacrifice, and terror? This essay assumes that the ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die. Hence, to kill or to allow to live constitute the limits of sovereignty, its fundamental attributes. To exercise… …
I am one of the thousands of people who confronted Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. I am a blue-collar person, with a job, family, and responsibilities. I would have preferred to do other things with my weekend. However, I had to ask myself: If these people are allowed to run roughshod over this town, what will they do next? “We would have been crushed like cockroaches if… …
What you are about to read is a real life horror story. It is a tale of tear gas, bloodshed, and fascists burning a black man alive; it is a tale of overwhelming imperial aggression against a people who pose no threat to their invaders, a calculated strike of pure barbarism that would give Attila the Hun pause and Andrew Jackson the willies. It is the story of Venezuela, America’s newest… …
Solidarity from Athens to all the people fighting in Hamburg. The struggle will continue until the destruction of global capitalism and national states. VOID NETWORK http://voidnetwork.gr THIS IS HELL – HAMBURG 6-9 JULY 2017 against G20 The residents of Hamburg woke up this morning to the news that a large number of Porsches had been burned in the outskirts last night, giving an indication of the ungovernable energy with which… …
ZAD (France), Hambach Forest (Germany), Bure (France) Cooperativa Integral (Spain), DIY Internet (Greece) Networks of Resistance / Δίκτυα Αντίστασης 1st European Local Struggles Conference Saturday 24- Sunday 25 June 2017 1ο Πανευρωπαϊκό Συνέδριο Τοπικών Αγώνων Free Self-Organised Theater EMBROS – Riga Palamidi 2 Psiri Area – Athens Ελεύθερο Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενο Θέατρο ΕΜΠΡΟΣ – Ρήγα Παλαμήδη 2 – Ψυρρή – Αθήνα Program / Πρόγραμμα Day 1: Sat. 24/6 starts 17.00 Introduction, Presentations of… …
* [text: Eng./Ελλ.] Την Πέμπτη 15/6, η κυβέρνηση της «αριστεράς» θα υποδεχτεί στη Θεσσαλονίκη τον πρωθυπουργό του Ισραήλ, Μπ. Νετανιάχου, για την τριμερή Συνάντηση Κορυφής μεταξύ Ελλάδας, Ισραήλ και Κύπρου. Στην τελευταία αντίστοιχη συνάντηση, το Νοέμβριο του 2015, ο Α. Τσίπρας είχε φροντίσει να χαρακτηρίσει την κατεχόμενη Ιερουσαλήμ ως «ιστορική πρωτεύουσα» του Ισραήλ, νομιμοποιώντας έτσι τη θηριωδία των ισραηλινών δυνάμεων κατοχής. Κι ενώ κάθε μέρα ανήλικα παιδιά πυροβολούνται στους δρόμους… …
Anarchists are against nationalism; everyone knows that. Instead of solidarity across borders and anti-hierarchical antagonism within them, nationalism engenders loyalty to the state with its armed forces and public symbols, encourages the oppressed to identify with their compatriot oppressors, scapegoats minorities, and pits workers of different countries against one another in economic competition or open warfare. Opposition to nationalism is an almost trivial starting point for anarchist politics, reflected in… …
“If the Russian Revolution becomes the signal for a proletarian revolution in the West, so that both complement each other, the present Russian common ownership of land may serve as the starting point for a communist development.” Marx/Engels – Preface to the Russian edition of the manifesto, 1882. This perspective was not realized. The European industrial proletariat missed its rendez-vous with a revitalized Russian peasant commune. Brest-Litovsk, 1917 and 1939… …
Today in three major cities of Belarus – Minsk, Mogilev and Grodno – people took the streets protesting against government attempts to collect tax off the unemployed (details of the story HERE). In Minsk, demonstrations managed to gather more that 1 500 people, in Mogilev and Grodno 1 000 each. These are the biggest protests those cities have seen in decades. It is worth mentioning that most of the protesters… …
No, these are not photos from battlegrounds in Ukraine or Syria—these are from Paris, the erstwhile city of love and light, transformed into another stage for conflict in the aftermath of two years of terror attacks and heightened security and anxiety. photo 1: Nous Somme le Peule Qui Manque [We Are the Missing People]. Rue de Chaligny. Paris, May 26, 2016. Nearly three months after the first gatherings, the demonstrations became… …
Welcome to Athens, Obama *A joint statement published on the occasion of Obama’s visit to Athens, Greece by Void Network (http://voidnetwork.gr/) and the CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective (USA) Today, November 14, outgoing US President Barack Obama arrives in Greece. Speaking from both the United States and Greece, we call on every partisan of freedom to participate in the night demonstration called for Athens on November 15 / starts from Athens Polytechnic… …
The particular understanding I have of men and myself comes from having been born into a working poor context that also happened to be hyper religious. My marinovio texted me today and said: “I am going out with a friend this upcoming weekend.” This was an FYI text; it was open and clean communication. This was the relationship I signed up for … yet in the back of mind… …
Anarchists and confrontational antifascists back in the streets of London in 9/10/2016 in memory of 80th anniversary of heroic Cable Street battle, the great day of Londoners struggle against English fascists, the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, which saw over 100,000 working-class residents in London’s East End oppose a march by Oswald Mosely’s British Union of Fascists, forcing them to abandon it entirely. Void Network expresses solidarity to all… …
2010 was going to be an exceptional year, to judge by the public relations billboards the government erected along the highways: a modern Mexico was going to celebrate the Bicentennial of its War for Independence and the Centenary of its Revolution at the same time. And it certainly was an exceptional year. Every year, on January 6, the children who gather at the feet of the Angel of Independence, in… …
Καθώς βλέπουμε την Ευρώπη να αντιμετωπίζει τους πρόσφυγες με τον ίδιο τρόπο στον οποίο εξασκείται εδώ και αιώνες, στήνοντας φράχτες, στρατιωτικούς ελέγχους και στρατόπεδα συγκέντρωσης για τους ξένους, τους διαφορετικούς και τους διαφωνούντες, είμαστε υποχρεωμένοι να αναρωτηθούμε, έχει αλλάξει τίποτα πραγματικά στην Ευρώπη από την εποχή του Νταχάου και του Άουσβιτς; Η εικόνα των Δανών αστυνομικών να αφαιρούν τα τιμαλφή αντικείμενα από τους πρόσφυγες με πρόσχημα την κάλυψη των εξόδων… …
Occupied Accomodation Area for Refugees and Immigrants (Notara 26-Exarchia) People’s Solidarity Initiatives REFUGEES WELCOME!No One is IllegalDUB UNITYReggae Dub | Hip Hop | Drum n BassSAT. 13/2/2016 Eλεύθερο Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενο Θέατρο ΕΜΠΡΟΣOCCUPIED THEATRE EMBROS(R.Palamidi 2 / Psiris area / athens)starts at 23.00dj booker (hip hop) golden child (hip hop)natural reaction ft junior x (dub roots)dub riots ft . bluez < live > (dub roots -steppers)insp – i – ration soundsystem (dub)basik 1 (drum n… …
UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE EXPERIENCE FRIDAY 22 JAN. 2016 | starts 23.00 | NOMIKH Σχολή Αθηνών – Ακαδημίας 45 Athens Law School – Akademias str. 45 23.00-01.00 WAR (Void Network) 01.00-02.30 JUNIOR X (Void Network) 02.30-03.30 CRYSTAL ZERO (Void Network) 03.30-05.00 IRAKLIS MINDPHASER (Natural High) 05.00-06.00 UNDERVERSE (Natural High) 06.00-07.00 ROLLING DICE (Natural High) To σύνολο των εσόδων θα διατεθεί για την οικονομική στήριξη της συλλογικής κουζίνας ΕΑΤ ΤΗΕ RICH!,… …
Open Assembly and Info-Talk about the Self- Organised neighborhoods of Istanbul in Occupied Theatre Embros in Athens / Sun. 24 January 2016 / starts at 19.00 ΣΥΝΕΛΕΥΣΗ-ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΣΗ για τις Ελεύθερες Αυτοδιοικούμενες γειτονιές της εξεγερμένης Κωσταντινούπολης ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ 24/1 ώρα 19.00 Ελεύθερο Αυτοδιαχειριζόμενο Θέατρο ΕΜΠΡΟΣ (Ρ.Παλαμήδη 2, Ψυρρή, Αθήνα) Πριν λίγο καιρό έφτασε στα χέρια μας αυτή η επιστολή-πρόταση από μία Ελληνίδα που ζει στην Τουρκία, την Όλγα. “Θέλω καταρχήν να σας μιλήσω πολύ σύντομα,… …
Sa. 31.10.2015 CROSSING BRIDGES 2015 * Party and Politics, Participation, Intercultural Exchange, Art and Culture Zentrum Klapperfeld, Klapperfeldstraße 5, Frankfurt am Main Program: 14:00: ReCreate Public Space * Open Street Action, Subversive Sounds and Flashmob Meeting point: Klapperfeld – Participate 😉 – 16:15: Temper and movement of an activist Interactive Body Movement Workshop with Dada Vecerin 17:00: Social Revolt and Radical Movements in Greece Now!… …
This is a response of the Revolutionary Union for Internationalist Solidarity (from greece) and the International Freedom Battalion’s full statement upon the announcement of it’s creation.R.U.I.S.’ solidarity response:The Revolutionary Union for Internationalist Solidarity is a formation for struggle with the aim to practice solidarity in the international field of armed conflicts on the the side of the classes of the oppressed who fight towards social liberation from the domination of… …
Welcome to African Anarchism! Void Network introduces a site that is intended to be a resource for anarchists and other anti-authoritarian revolutionary socialists in Africa, and for all those interested in the liberation of this most exploited continent. the site is: http://www.struggle.ws/africa/ Africa has endured centuries of suffering and deprivation in a world of plenty. Capitalism has indisputably failed to provide even a minimum standard of living to Africans. The… …
Conférence Publique SOULEVEMENTS MONDIAUX DU 21e SIECLE du mouvement ‘Occupy’ aux révoltes asiatiques et à la Révolution planétaire avec George Katsiaficas, Sissy Doutsiou, Tasos Sagris, Richard Greeman et Harry Halpin 19h / jeudi 24 juillet au CAIRN 18, rue Victor Massé, 75009 Paris -métro Pigalle Les discutants enquêteront sur la stratégie, la tactique et la théorie à partir des soulèvements mondiaux de 2011 et tenteront de proposer des réponses sur… …
“You can use the 600 Euros that you will find on me to pay our health insurance. I paid the rent yesterday. I am sorry, my daughter, I could not take more suffering just to put a warm plate on the table – a bloody plate. Make sure that our daughter goes to college and never leave her alone. She should get the house that we have in the village.”… …
Sociologist Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores discusses how the concentration of class and racial privilege in gated communities takes place alongside the spatial concentration and confinement of the poor. She argues that gates help sort and segregate people, physically and symbolically distinguish communities, and cement inequality. “You drive to the gate. The community is in the shape of a U. You come in one gate and leave through the other. When… …
In a better world, there’d be no reason to write this. In that world, plastic bags would be outlawed, rednecks would voluntarily stop driving those obnoxious Ford F-350s and the yogis in yuppie neighborhoods would stop believing that a hybrid SUV could save the planet. But that’s not the world we live in. In this world, when push comes to shove, most of us are too comfortable to care, too… …
Living for Today / Fighting for Tommorow(Athens Anarchist student’s demo DEC.2013) Wolfi Landstreicher is an amerikan anarchist philosopher and political activist. During the 60 years of his life he succeeds to combine romanticism, critical stand-point and theory with deep understanding on Max Stirner into a poetic and surrealistic unity that leads into the insurrection of subjectivities and a revolutionary way of life. He is a traveller, a wonderer and a… …
Asheville Fm radio, based in western North Carolina, aired a fascinating interview with an anarcho-syndicalist named Denys, from the Autonomous Worker’s Union in Ukraine. In the interview, Denys debunks many of the myths surrounding the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, and explains motives behind the stories and propaganda being circulated around the protests. Why is the Free Association Agreement with the EU (which would mostly benefit the ultra-rich oligarchs of Ukraine)… …
Void Networkhttp://voidnetwork.blogspot.compresents VIVA LA ANARGUIAmusic and video by Nelipot (d.j. Crystal Zero remix)https://soundcloud.com/nelipot-stef Oid mortales el grito sagrado,De anarquia y solidaridad.Oid el ruido del pueblo que estalla,En defensa de la libertad.El obrero que sufre proclama la anarquia,De mundo al traves,Porque sigue sufriendo la injusticia,Hoy en dia igual que ayer. El maldito clero a la cara te escupe,Y el que manda te aplica su ley,Y el burgues tu sudor te arrebata,Y te mandan la… …
Europe has built a fortress around itself to protect itself from ‘illegal’ immigration from the South, from peoples fleeing civil war, conflict and devastating poverty. The story is best understood through maps. The Forbidden World It is a strange thing, this paranoid fear of invasion, this determination to protect themselves at all costs from these human beings who every year exile themselves from their homelands to head for… …
In his early writings, Marx described the German situation as one in which the only answer to particular problems was the universal solution: global revolution. This is a succinct expression of the difference between a reformist and a revolutionary period: in a reformist period, global revolution remains a dream which, if it does anything, merely lends weight to attempts to change things locally; in a revolutionary period, it becomes clear… …
Calling on people of all cities of the world! Come out this weekend and reclaim your public spaces to show solidarity with #OccupyGezi and the many waves of protests in Turkey!What began as a small occupation to protect Istanbul’s Gezi Park erupted within a matter of days into massive protests that spread like wildfire across Turkey. A key trigger was the disproportionate use of force by the police. Just as… …
This is a youtube channel with videos from revolted TurkeyDownload them, share them, see them before the censorship delete them from internet!The social uprising in Turkey continues and our friends and comrades in Turkey need the help from all of us.Share the authentic news from underground media sources, express your solidarity with all possible ways,help the message of revolted Turkish people to travel as further as possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGjPubr5L5c&list=PLtMSwy96r2CaQstcSN2eJl13w9mnR3aTEsuggested videos:… …
Turkish state has started a war against the people. Many people are dead. >>> VOID NETWORK EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY FOR THE PEOPLE IN TURKEY AND THEIR STRUGGLE. THE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST GLOBAL TOTALITARIANISM CONTINUES! WE SHALL OVERCOME! >>> WE INVITE OUR FRIENDS AT SYNTAGMA SQ. ATHENS GREECE Saturday 1st JUNE 2013 at 18.00 Solidarity for Turkish people demo >>>> for more info about the struggle in Turkey:http://voidmirror.blogspot.gr/2013/06/turkish-police-has-started-war-against.html …
VOID NETWORK EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY FOR THE PEOPLE IN TURKEY AND THEIR STRUGGLE. THE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST GLOBAL TOTALITARIANISM CONTINUES!WE SHALL OVERCOME!The occupation of Taksim Gezi Park in İstanbul began on May 28th, 2013. Following the police raid in the park area on May 30th, hackers from the RedHack sabotaged the website of the Beyoglu police headquarters in response to the morning attack.The occupation continued, and thousands of people gathered to resist… …
We present here, in Arabic and in English, an open letter from participants in black bloc actions in the United States to participants in the Egyptian black bloc, aimed at initiating a dialogue beyond the exchange of youtube videos. This is of interest to everyone around the world struggling for liberation, so please print and distribute widely:pamphlet in English:http://cloudfront.crimethinc.com/pdfs/egyptblackbloc_english_imposed.pdfpamphlet in Arabic:http://cloudfront.crimethinc.com/pdfs/egyptblackbloc_arabic_imposed.pdfThe emergence of the black bloc in Egypt at this… …
Void Network[Theory, Utopia, Empathy, Ephemeral Arts] est. 1990 Athens | London | New York | Rio De Janeirohttp://voidnetwork.blogspot.com We would like to see the creative and socially aware people of this world to co-create innumerable collectives, small and large, against the establishment, based on their common needs and desires. Affinity groups and great autonomous companies of friends that share life, love and mutual trust and that act in the public space by… …
When you hear of Death Camps and Genocide, Nazi Germany and world war two come to mind. But Germany had practiced it’s murderous craft over sixty years before WWll. Before the Armenian Genocide, before the Jewish Genocide over 150,000 Herero and Nama peoples of modern-day Namibia were murdered by the order of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany between 1904 and 1909. Along the coastline of Namibia runs the Namib desert, a 1,200 mile long strip of unwelcoming… …
Letter of the Community Guarani-Kaiowá of Pyelito Kue/Mbarakay-Iguatemi-MS for the Government and Justice of Brazil We (50 men, 50 women and 70 children) Guarani-Kaiowá communities originating from tekoha Pyelito kue / Mbrakay, we write this letter to present our historical situation and a final decision before the dispatch order expressed by the Federal Court of Navaraí MS, as Case No. 0000032-87.2012.4.03.6006, on 29 September 2012. We received information that our… …
Thousands marched yesterday in Spain near the parliament building, demanding the resignation of Mariano Rajoy’s government as well as the rewrite of constitution. The police have fired rubber bullets and baton-charged protesters. Spanish media reported that at least 32 people were detained and more than a dozen injured. The protesters dispersed after MPs left the building. A demonstrator, Montse Puigdavall spoke at BBC: I’m here because of all the social… …