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Between late April and mid-May 2024, we interviewed student and non-student participants in the following nine encampments across the US: Harvard, Northwestern, Chicago, CUNY, Texas, UMass, Princeton, Columbia, and UCLA. Here are some of their answers:
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The revolts that shook the world in 2011-2013, and the uprisings of 2019 and 2020, are not anomalies. They are part of a growing planetary accumulation of struggles that began with the economic crisis of 2008.
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Letter from Ukraine: "radicals today must work to break the image of a 'patriotic war' that the state has constructed"
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With heavy hearts, we say goodbye to our friend and comrade Loren Goldner, now and forever, we can still break their haughty power
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coming soon: a new Endnotes dossier with texts by Mustapha Khayati, Amadeo Bordiga, Michel Seurat, Théorie Communiste and more on the Middle East
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We are happy to present the first English translation of Theodor Adorno’s “On the Problem of the Family” (1955)
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On the second anniversary of the
#GeorgeFloyd
protests we are publishing a special online issue, "That Summer Feeling", in which participants look back and draw the balance sheet of America's hot pandemic summer of 2020.
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"What interested Marx most about the Haudenosaunee was the way they organised themselves: not in a state, but as a league in which citizens – including women – could voice their concerns at regular intervals."
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Whatever your position on Palestine, we can all safely agree that Germany has no right to exist
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WALTER AUERBACH ON THE ARAB REVOLT IN PALESTINE
by Walter Auerbach & Paul Mattick
The Arab uprising in Palestine (1936)
The Land Of Promise: Report from Palestine (1936)
The Brownshirts Of Zionism (1937)
A “Marxian” Approach to the Jewish question (1938)
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To Marina Vishmidt – you made us all better, our world is worse off without you. RIP comrade
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We are happy to release the first part of our “Young Mattick” Dossier, including translations of Paul Mattick's short fiction and reports from 1924-1934. This dossier has 11 pieces in total, with a preface by Marie and an afterword by
@totalcritique
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We're publishing Endnotes 5 this Summer, but we need your support to pay for printing and design. Please consider donating at
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New on our site: “Forest and Factory: The Science and The Fiction of Communism” by Phil Neel and Nick Chavez (
@DFManufracture
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To commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the George Floyd uprising we will publish tomorrow a special online issue looking back at the uprising, with texts by Jarrod Shanahan, Shemon, A New Institute for Social Research, Curtis Price, and Idris Robinson
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**First part of new dossier "Waiting for the Barbarians" now available**
more translations of Khayati to come
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New translation: Günther Anders' open letter to the Viennese Jewish Community, 1982
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"We should counter the image of a successful campaign that Ukraine is constructing: this war is unwinnable, and every minute of denying it kills more and more people." - Second Letter from Ukraine by
@problemicist
@dehorstous
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We're still working on converting issue 5 to html, but in response to requests from readers we have uploaded PDFs of all the articles to our site. You can now access them by clicking on the article titles:
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"It is true that because of Rome, the boredom, monotony, and monotony of life killed every source of spontaneity, originality, and life in much of the world. But there were still independent civilizations. And the barbarians existed, thank God." Simone Weil
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‘When it comes to genocide, [Germany] is always on the wrong side of History’
Frédéric Lordon on the war in Gaza:
‘To dominate without bearing the stain of evil: this is perhaps the ultimate fantasy of the dominant.’
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"The Messiah has been counterproductive in all revolutions . . . The workers will triumph when they understand that no-one is coming . . . The Revolution will rise again, and will be terrible, but anonymous."
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@BueRubner
raised some interesting questions on our use of Asef Bayat’s term non-movement. For us, the concept of the non-movement expresses the confusion, frustration but also hope that we have witnessed the last twelve years or so after taking part in revolts and uprisings in
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“War, however, completely disorients you, making you feel utterly powerless as you are thrown into a sea of new incalculable probabilities, with everything lost and everyone confused.”
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We are releasing more texts in our translation dossiers today, some translated recently, some a while ago. We are very slow at this. Contemporary essays and interviews are also forthcoming, but it might take a while. To all the barbarians of the world, solidarity!
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the subjective signs of capitalist stagnation are everywhere
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new on Endnotes blog: translation of “Manifesto Against War” by Bologna et al.
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Today we release the second part of our "Young Mattick" dossier, with 7 new translations (four stories and three articles), along with a critical analysis of Paul Mattick's work by
@totalcritique
. Big thanks to all the translators! We hope you enjoy.
We are happy to release the first part of our “Young Mattick” Dossier, including translations of Paul Mattick's short fiction and reports from 1924-1934. This dossier has 11 pieces in total, with a preface by Marie and an afterword by
@totalcritique
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These comrades are responsible for Kerr's recent publication of
@chuangcn
's Social Contagion and Noel's Ignatiev's Acceptable Men. It's shameful for them to be treated like this.
A CRY FROM THE CHOPPING BLOCK
Dear friends,
We write this open letter to demand the immediate resignation of Tamara Smith from her leadership position at Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company. (1/20)
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"The State as organised tuberculosis; if the microbes of the plague were to organise, they would found the world Kingdom." – Georg Lukács, Notes on Dostoevsky (1915)
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Also here's a special belated announcement of our dossier of new translations by and about Mario Tronti: (still being updated). It's an end-of-year endnotes bonanza!
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Dauvé on Graeber and Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything is “in tune with the limitations of present social movements, which the book expresses without helping to understand and overcome”
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"I no longer see this as a conflict between Arabs and Jews, between Israeli and Palestinian. I have abandoned this duality, this naïve oversimplification of the conflict. I have become convinced of Ali Shariati and Frantz Fanon’s divisions of the world."
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New text by
@GerardoMunoz87
in dialogue with the Zeit der Ökologie collective on the "new ecological regime of accumulation"
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We are happy to publish a translation from Arabic of the sociologist Mohammed A. Bamyeh's ten theses on revolution. They were originally written for the tenth anniversary of the Arab uprisings of 2011:
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Sergio Fontegher Bologna wrote a longer obituary for Mario Tronti on Sozial.Geschichte. H. Bolin translated this wonderful piece of twentieth century history for us:
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Idris Robinson on last summer's uprising: "amongst the mass of lonely, isolated, autonomous citizen-deputies, the undead of the American wasteland, with their incurable neuroses and deranged habits, we saw, for the first time, a slight glimpse of humanity"
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“Waiting for the Massacre” is a text that the Tunisian revolutionaries Lafif Lakhdar and Mustapha Khayati distributed in Jordan on the eve of the Black September massacre in 1970.
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New on Endnotes: Yann Sturmer on Giorgio Cesarano and a short film on cybernetics and revolution by the Brume Group:
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In the late 1950s, in the midst of the so-called Arab Cold War, the main journal of the Italian communist left, Il Programma Communista, published a series of articles on Arab nationalism, which we have translated and published below.
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In these 1936-37 articles, the Italian left communist Verdaro situates Zionism and Arab nationalism in a broader geopolitical context, focusing on the key role of British imperialism in pitting Jew against Arab to secure immediate interests in Palestine.
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Knock knock
People keep asking me when Endnotes is due. No one knows. At some point, the Black Rod will show up at a London squat, knock on the door three times, and then draw upon it a symbol to replace both the circle-A and the hammer and sickle, at which point the files can be uploaded
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We did it! Thank you so much to everyone who donated. We are currently working on the re-design and will release the new issue shortly!
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anarchy is the order of our time
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"... class consciousness, today, can only be the consciousness of capital."
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“The pandemic revealed an extreme authoritarian tendency of the state socialist left.” Lea Gekle interviews Karl Heinz Roth for Endnotes:
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English translation of Federico Corriente's overview of Jacques Camatte:
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"Revolutions are not based on a correct understanding ... or a proper analysis of the balance of power. Quite the opposite: they erupt out of complete lack of interest in this kind of “correct”—hence immobilizing—understanding of the situation."
We are happy to publish a translation from Arabic of the sociologist Mohammed A. Bamyeh's ten theses on revolution. They were originally written for the tenth anniversary of the Arab uprisings of 2011:
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"All decisive moments in history have been accompanied by upheavals in the field of energy." Jacques Camatte, Echoes of the Past.
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“[In a context of stagnant or declining profitability] even a moderate increase in the wage share [can lead] state and capital to prefer the risk of a recession to any potential strengthening of working-class power.”
@PRoufos
on Inflation Blues
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"... the Trumps of this world can only escalate conflicts and deepen schisms, to the point that the party of order reveals itself to be the party of anarchy. These neo-populists cannot produce any real hegemony, but only split populations."
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Le spectacle est le discours ininterrompu que l’ordre présent tient sur lui-même, son monologue élogieux. C’est l’autoportrait du pouvoir à l’époque de sa gestion totalitaire des conditions d’existence.
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We will soon be launching a new online dossier of texts by and about Camatte, Cesarano, and the Italian Invariance tradition, a follow up to the dossier featured in Endnotes 5
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In this essential new book Mårten Björk develops and expands upon his article “Life Against Nature”, first published in Endnotes 5
📖 Just published: The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg by Mårten Björk explores their key writings in relation to political turmoil from 1914-1945, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism.
More info:
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"Although the slaughter [by police] shows no sign of abating, collective bargaining by riot is once again leveraging concessions." Brown v. Ferguson (2015)
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"Since the 2007/2008 economic crisis the entire world has entered a period of mass struggle. ... with respective counter-revolutions or counter-insurgency as part of the process. The George Floyd Rebellion is part of this ongoing process..."
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Someone using book-bloc tactics, with Endnotes 3 as a shield, at anti-fascist demo in Sacramento yesterday.
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"The conception of history as a series of class struggles is already much richer in content and deeper than merely reducing it to weakly distinguished phases of the struggle for existence."
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"No matter to which side the proletariat offers itself, it will always be among the defeated. Therefore it must not side with the democracies, nor with the totalitarians." Otto Rühle in 1940, quoted by Gilles Dauvé on Ukraine today
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all pre-orders ship tomorrow, order now at:
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In a midstream balance sheet of this cycle of struggles, which increasingly wear the garments of identity rather than class, we examine the disorder from above and below that is forming our world.
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“in contrast to the empty anti-globalization slogan, Tronti ought to be credited for having had the audacity to say, ‘We are NOT winning,’ and for mustering the courage to recognize loss for what it really is” Idris Robinson introducing Mario Tronti
We're excited to share the first English translation of Mario Tronti's decisive 2008 interview on the death of the subject and the defeat of the workers movement.
Featuring a substantial new introduction by Idris Robinson.
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In the lead article in this special issue,
@JarrodShanahan
situates the riots and protests historically, in the unfolding of an American cycle of struggle, and ideologically, in the transformations of anti-racist and abolitionist politics.
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"What does our revolutionary horizon look like? It must surely appear foolish to place any hope — at least in an immediate sense — in the nature of this mental work and its products, in the internet or in “immaterial labour?”
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@totalcritique
Translated and edited by the Illmattick group: Jacob Blumenfeld, Hunter Bolin, Gary Roth, Nicholas Gray, Felix Kurz, Eric-John Russell, John Clegg, Ben Schutz, Jason Smith and The New Institute for Social Research.
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The revolution will be televised.
Some were even working out in the Gym at the president’s residence.
I’m waiting to see a video of those who entered the kitchen. 😂😂
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a halt. We don't need to be optimistic to accept that we are in period that should radicalize rather than stiffen our imagination. We can see a global accumulation of "revolutionaries without revolution" and this is in itself a sign that our order is tottering.
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"Singing came before the spoken word, poetry came before prose, religion and art were born before science ... great advances have taken place thanks to these few vital and fertile turning points that have ... become part of humanity's long journey. Art is revolution." A. Bordiga
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"... even if our period is not revolutionary in the short term, it is fundamentally disruptive and produces the potential for a break with the capitalist mode of production. The accumulation of struggles ... is a prerequisite for any serious discussion of overcoming capitalism."
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Last but not least, in "Postscript: On Pain", Idris Robinson addresses the psychic and bodily toll of the return to normality.
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New video of Idris Robinson's How It Might Should be Done
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"L’Europa morirà americana?" by Raffaele Sciortino, translated by Luhuna Carvalho, published May 2024
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"Caught in the net of capitalist social relations,
people have to work, but by the very act of working, they undermine the conditions of possibility
of their existence as workers. The capitalist mode of production thus moves in a contradiction."
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"In the end, the non-movements not only delegitimize the police, but a whole world in which politics is reduced to policing. They can fight the police most effectively by delegitimizing the system as a whole."
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From now on, words must have the same function as bullets.
- Lafif Lakhdar, Mustapha Khayati, August 1st 1970
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In a new article Florian Bossert analyzes the failure of thinking in pandemic times:
@communaut_jrnl
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One of the reasons for releasing these texts is to situate the present conflict in a longer history, to show how council communists like Auerbach and Bordigists like Verdaro thought about Zionism and Arab Nationalism during the British Mandate period.
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"Today’s epoch is against the proletarian class, the revolution, the revolutionary party. But when the time comes, all three will rise again. For the time being, even in our small movement, it is necessary to put an end to the desire for this all-destroying freedom of gossip."
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“A politics that seeks to redistribute resources and power to minority groups, defined in increasingly arbitrary ways, is a rational response to a world plagued by stagnation and the defeat of class solutions to social inequality.”
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