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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? TNS: Hi Mark, and thanks for taking the time to respond to some questions. Before we begin, can you tell readers a bit about yourself and the various projects you’ve been involved in over the years? Mark: My pleasure! Well, I’m from New Jersey and I’m a member of the new Black Rose Anarchist Federation, … Read entire article »
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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 assassinated in the Zapatista community of La Realidad, the military head of the Zapatista National … Read entire article »
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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 »
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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 Service, a driving down of immigration and increasing military spending by 40% (1); nothing very alternative there! Why … Read entire article »
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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 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 covering the events in Greece during and following the revolt of 2008, and which has … Read entire article »
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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 »
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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 to maintain the status quo and usually siding with the ruling class. Historically the Church … Read entire article »
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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 villages. Visiting a Zapatista village, living with Zapatista families, participating in individual work, collective work, … Read entire article »
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 out in their everyday lives. The first section, Privatised, explores the legacy of mass privatisation … Read entire article »
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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
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 are both from these very hard bands, people stick others in a box and expect … Read entire article »
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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 of their album read the lyrics and realised they were pretty left leaning in their … Read entire article »
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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 »
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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 and more ill at ease. The UK has high rates of inequality, one of the … Read entire article »
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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 »
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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 is nothing humanitarian about it. This is because for them the crisis was from the … Read entire article »
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 us our humanity. But with “I’m An Alien” we reclaim the term. We will not … Read entire article »
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EZLN 20 Years
