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147 weeks on the list

9 ON TYRANNY
by Timothy SnyderCrown
Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.

10 New this week

ANTIFA
by Mark Bray Melville House
The historian and scholar chronicles the anti-fascism movement from its opposition to Hitler and Mussolini to more recent events.

11 11 weeks on the list

FRAMED
by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey Vintage
Our criminal justice system viewed through the struggles of 10 wrongfully convicted people to achieve exoneration.

147 weeks on the list 9 ON TYRANNY by Timothy SnyderCrown Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny. 10 New this week ANTIFA by Mark Bray Melville House The historian and scholar chronicles the anti-fascism movement from its opposition to Hitler and Mussolini to more recent events. 11 11 weeks on the list FRAMED by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey Vintage Our criminal justice system viewed through the struggles of 10 wrongfully convicted people to achieve exoneration.

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My Antifa book is on the New York Times Bestseller list 8 years after publication.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me (and my family) in so many ways (including buying books). #NoPasarán

14.11.2025 17:21 👍 327 🔁 85 💬 7 📌 7
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Go watch my newest video laying out the principles of stoicism and demonstrating why it's NOT a conservative philosophy. It's pretty good.

Look below👇

07.11.2025 19:18 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

O Robert Paxton também é um gajo muito bom nesses temas

14.10.2025 11:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

12.09.2025 16:23 👍 31121 🔁 7777 💬 286 📌 206

"Certamente a burguesia não tem o direito de se queixar da violência dos seus inimigos, dado que toda a sua história, enquanto classe, é uma história de derramamento de sangue, e dado que o sistema de exploração, que é a lei da sua vida, produz diariamente hecatombes de inocentes." Errico Malatesta

11.09.2025 11:40 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

bell hooks: "The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. 1/2

27.07.2025 16:38 👍 111 🔁 32 💬 5 📌 2

The text for part 4 of A Modern Anarchism, "Organization," is now on The Anarchist Library ahead of its release as a video essay. In Part 4 I apply Viable Systems Theory to horizontal organization, develop a general theory of horizontal administration, and discuss planning.

(Link below)

01.07.2025 22:31 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

An underrated Marx passage: "this 'productive' worker cares as much about the crappy shit he has to make as does the capitalist himself who employs him, and who also couldn't give a damn for the junk".

source: Karl Marx, Grundrisse (London: Penguin Books, 1993), p273.

28.06.2025 14:11 👍 71 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

Contempory western imperialists often pretend to care about women's liberation and LGBT rights in order to justify bombing another country. For some reason it's never explained exactly how dropping bombs, which would also kill women and queer civilians, will fulfil the imperialists noble intentions

23.06.2025 14:23 👍 110 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 1
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Palestinian children struggle with the same trauma their mother felt growing up in the occupied West Bank where the constant threat of land grabs and demolitions plagues daily life.

Watch Rooted in the West Bank: aje.io/Rooted

25.06.2025 06:54 👍 92 🔁 63 💬 2 📌 6

Marx didn't invent the slogan "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". In 1845 the front cover of Cabet’s Voyage to Icaria featured the epigraph: “First Right: To Live – To each following his needs” and “First Duty: To Work – From each following his strengths”.

15.06.2025 14:27 👍 99 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 2
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Entre as brumas... Andamos todos a fingir que sabemos o que sustenta o crescimento da extrema-direita.

Algumas notas para semear a discórdia (ou só para chafurdar nela)

diogomainselduarte.substack.com/p/entre-as-b...

29.05.2025 09:55 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Help Fund Our Community Website Initiative Neighborhood Assembly is an open-source digital platform designed to facilitate direct citizen participation in community organizing, including mutual aid and other forms of direct action.Being comple...

A friend and I have been working on a platform where people can organize autonomous neighborhood councils in their communities. We are officially $50 away from launching. If that sounds like something you would use, please consider donating $5! tinyurl.com/neighborhoodassemblydonate

26.05.2025 20:42 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0

We should have much more from him translated into English

22.04.2025 23:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My favourite genre of bad radical theory is: communique written by person who clearly wanted to be a poet but wasn't good enough.

29.12.2024 17:31 👍 64 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0

"Most assuredly the bourgeoisie has no right to complain of the violence of its foes, since its whole history, as a class, is a history of bloodshed, and since the system of exploitation, which is the law of its life, daily produces hecatombs of innocents." - Errico Malatesta, 1894

07.12.2024 15:12 👍 99 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 0