Statehood is a capitulation to this demand for assimilation into legibility."
"The Palestinian nation we have sustained is a practice of relation that is continued at home and in diaspora, and does not preclude the possibility of our return."
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with every loss not a closing, but an opening and continuation of our living practice of memory. Édouard Glissant proclaimed the “right to opacity” for the colonized people of the Caribbean as a refusal of the West’s demand for coherence and transparency:
willfully turning a blind eye to the horrors of Israel’s siege of Gaza. But this is our history, our stories, our memory work to carry, as the living descendants of the Nakba. We know who we are, in all our differences and distinctions. We live our history in our presence,
"Yet I fear that the devastating lack of attention and action from the “international community” has sparked a desperate desire in many of us to make ourselves and our history, cultures, knowledges, and accomplishments legible to the very same nation-States participating and enabling this genocide,
"Identity is not enough in a world shaped by capitalism to offset what will be repeated every time we tell ourselves that our motivations won’t produce the same results that those with colonial underpinnings always do."
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"Part of the problem here is that so much of what we think we deserve is based on a sense of ownership, territorialization, and property that has nothing to do with defeating capitalism."
William C. Anderson critiques the idea that Black liberation can be achieved through nation-states. Tracing the history of Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” campaign and prior projects of the kind from North America and the Caribbean to Liberia and Sierra Leone, he draws parallels with Zionism and
"Identity is not enough in a world shaped by capitalism to offset what will be repeated every time we tell ourselves that our motivations won’t produce the same results that those with colonial underpinnings always do."
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"Part of the problem here is that so much of what we think we deserve is based on a sense of ownership, territorialization, and property that has nothing to do with defeating capitalism."
argues that state power, by definition, reproduces hierarchy, violence and settler logic.
"All of this history and more make it perplexing, especially in the midst of present-day escalated genocide against Palestinians, that the notion of a Black nation-state based on exceptionalism still thrives."
William C. Anderson critiques the idea that Black liberation can be achieved through nation-states. Tracing the history of Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” campaign and prior projects of the kind from North America and the Caribbean to Liberia and Sierra Leone, he draws parallels with Zionism and
In 2025, nine Western States formally recognized the State of Palestine. This State recognition and the resurrection of the moribund so-called “two-State solution” is combined with a criminalization of calls to liberate Palestine “from the river to the sea.”
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Our new issue "The No-State Solution" (March–April 2026) is out now!
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Rasheedah Phillips's DISMANTLING THE MASTER'S CLOCK is on @thefunambulist.bsky.social's bookshelf at Wendy's Subway! An amazing collection you can go see in person in Brooklyn: wendyssubway.com/library/feat...
If you aren't familiar with @thefunambulist.bsky.social, go check them out! Their next issue, the No-State Solution, comes out next week. thefunambulist.net/shop/no-stat...
The new issue of the @thefunambulist.bsky.social is looking amazing, especially the cover by the Palestinian geographer Samir Harb
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The cover artwork titled 'Unfinished Fragments' was created by Palestinian geographer Samir Harb. The drawing purposely appears as incomplete to convey this sense of “no State,” a decentralized model where heterogeneous fragments exist alongside each other.
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There's too much history of 'it's not colonization/occupation/zionism when we do it' that's either horribly under-discussed or shockingly normalized. I'm still thinking about Paul Gilroy's “essential innocence” clouding people's awareness that their state-building dreams and reality are both deadly.
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"The no-State solution is thus a provocation to think of what Indigenous sovereignty can look like without reproducing these structures, in particular the violent dichotomy of citizenship and its absence."
This is the question. Encouraged to see @williamcson.bsky.social here. 🔖
I wrote about the history of Black Zionism for @thefunambulist.bsky.social and the baffling ways that people use identity/oppression to justify genocidal and colonial state projects past and present. Marcus Garvey, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and much more offer disturbing warnings. Preorder if you can!
This issue asks: can liberation ever take the form of a state?
Cover artwork by Samir Harb.
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In 2025, nine Western States formally recognized the State of Palestine. This State recognition and the resurrection of the moribund so-called “two-State solution” is combined with a criminalization of calls to liberate Palestine “from the river to the sea.”
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"In this context, the movement for prison abolition will seek its place primarily among groups concerned with the future of the world: collectives that incorporate their professional practices into broader political reflection."
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After the coup, between 1948–1952, the structure and management of prisons were gradually sovietized. During this time, Czechoslovakia operated 400 judicial prisons, correctional institutions, and labor camps, holding 40,000 people—at least a third of them assigned to forced labor in mines."
of prisons from the 1950s onwards. In the years immediately following the end of World War II, before the Communist Party’s coup of 1948, prisons were overcrowded, largely due to the internment and expulsion of German populations from the country’s north-western borderlands
Despite an evident lack of intellectual investment in prison abolitionism in today’s Czechia, she tries to apply this political horizon to the specificities of Czech carceralism.
"This post-war expansion of the carceral system can be traced in Czechoslovakia (later Czechia) through the construction
This research is part of our series of publications of architecture student theses.
Adéla Vavříková describes the carceral continuum in Czechia, then in Czechoslovakia, during the Socialist Republic’s rule to the capitalist present, despite the turning point the 1989 Velvet Revolution embodied.
An important thread and article for the “It can’t happen here, it’s not legal” folks.
