Category: Analysis
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Revolution in Our Lifetime
Originally published in Red Clarion by Liath 6 March 2024 The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make the apple fall. It is possible to win and it is possible to win in our lifetime.1 This is a necessary starting point for any socialist revolution, anywhere, including in North…
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EXITING LAW AND ENTERING REVOLUTION
Translated by Bassem Saad and published by The Bad Side (Download Zine) People ran at the sound of bullets. They partook in the fray, not asking why or how. The countrymen against the French. All is clear and it takes place even if the dispute is over a triviality or if the fight is between…
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Max Ajl Interview with Samidoun’s Charlotte Kates on Repression & Resistance
November/December 2023 – Agrarian South Research Bulletin Charlotte Kates is the international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. Also involved with the National Lawyers Guild, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the International People’s Tribunal on US imperialism, sanctions, blockades and coercive economic measures. Max Ajl: Thank you so much for taking the time,…
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Flood The Gates: Escalate
By Palestine Action US Published in Mondoweiss, 1 May 2024. Download this article as a zine or as a PDF. “The beginning of every revolution is an exit, an exit from the social order that power has enshrined in the name of law, stability, public interest, and the greater good.” – martyr Bassel Al-Araj “And it follows that…
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Synthesis of Lessons from Encampment Mobilisations in Britain: Combatting Liberalism and Advancing Revolutionary Praxis
Anonymous submission to Unity of Fields In reflecting on the recent encampment mobilisations, it becomes clear that while significant efforts were made to organize resistance, these actions fell short of evolving into a fully-fledged revolutionary movement. The encampments were largely isolated and disorganized, demonstrating a lack of cohesive strategy, long-term planning, and genuine leadership. Liberalism…
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Unity of Fields: Opening Up a New Front
28 August 2024 We are transitioning Palestine Action US into what it has become through necessity: a militant propaganda front against the US-NATO-zionist axis of imperialism. How could we have only “solidarity” with the people whose suffering and death are required by our Amerikan way of living? It is not enough.We have long exhausted the passive…
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The Carlo Emerges from Wounds (RNN)
19 August 2024 – Via Resistance News Network The following is a translation of an article by Musa Al-Sada, published in Al-Akhbar on August 6th, 2022 before Al-Aqsa Flood, contrasting two worlds: the camp and the colony, the refugee and the settler, the resistance and the occupation. Musa eloquently transports us to a night on Dizengoff Street…
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The Resistance is the Red line
8 June 2024 – Via DMV Intifada Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem Assalamo Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh, On June 8th 2024, the liberal and reformist organizations planned yet another rally, with speakers on stages, and a symbolic human “red line” around the White House. Thousands of dollars were raised and spent, money that could have gone to Gaza. This was…
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Fight Like a Flea: Lessons from the Casbah of Basel al-Araj
5 June 2024 – Published in It’s Going Down “The flea has fascinating fighting strategies and techniques…It does not kill its host…what it does is exhaust its host and consume its blood, causing constant disturbance, eventually preventing the host from being able to rest. It makes the host nervous and demoralized. […] [T]he guerilla fights…
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Block Cop City
13 November 2023 – Report-back via Defend the Atlanta Forest Twitter: The most important story of the #BlockCopCity action is not the police aggression, which was expected. It is the methods and tactics used by protesters to keep one another safe, effectively preventing any arrests or injuries. Let’s take a closer look. Clothing: many protesters…