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Panait Mușoiu
September 7, 2020 / #Books
Nicolas Trifon is a Romanian-born libertarian socialist who emigrated to Paris in 1977. The sequence of interviews collected in this volume is a captivating read. These accounts span several decades, from the memory of the first few times Nicolas ”stepped out of line” and his early political actions in communist Romania, to his years of […]
March 5, 2020 / #Books
God and the State is one of the ”classics” of anarchist and revolutionary literature. First published in 1882, six years after the death of its author, Mikhail Bakunin, the work was first edited by two of Bakunin’s collaborators, Carlo Cafiero and Élisée Reclus. A complete (and accurate) edition became available only in 1908, when James […]
September 5, 2018 / #Books
“Not only do the Arimanians consider their liberty unhampered by the fact that in each and every move they make they try to take the other’s well-being into consideration, but through the other’s liberty they see one’s own liberty becoming whole.” – Iuliu Neagu-Negulescu About Arimania Utopian literature never enjoyed much consideration or sympathy in […]
September 16, 2020 / #Brochures
Rather than being a comment on the adequacy — or not — of the quarantine measures imposed by the State, which is a whole different discussion, this is a comment on biopolitical governing techniques and on the behaviour of the “population” during this period that authorities managed to define as a “global health emergency”. The […]
May 21, 2020 / #Brochures
Les approches féministes qui nous entourent se dirigent de plus en plus vers une forme de répression carcérale de l’ordre patriarcal. Ce mode de réaction nous rend pourtant complices des systèmes d’oppressions. Des événements récents comme la tragédie de la mort d’Alexandra Măceșanu ont révélé une tension fondamentale dans le mouvement féministe local : militons-nous pour […]
August 4, 2019 / #Brochures
Az előadást Agamben a Nicos Poulantzas Intézet meghívására tartotta Athénban 2013. november 16-án. Először a Χρονος online felületen jelent meg 2014 februárjában For a theory of destituent power címmel; ezt azonnal átvette a ROAR Magazine szerkesztősége, ellátta a jelenlegi címmel, és a fenti fejezetekre osztotta.
June 11, 2019 / #Brochures
In the second half of the nineteenth century the notes of Michael Bakunin were printed as Dieu et l’État [God and the State] aiming to hammer a nail both through the authority of supernatural divine forces and in the heart of the state apparatus. Soon in various European peripheries, various anarchist followers brought a third […]
October 26, 2018 / #Brochures
During a 1923 series of lectures on political parties and doctrines at the Romanian Social Institute, the speaker who took the floor on the subject of anarchism concluded: “We do not have a proper militant or theoretical anarchist movement.” Was this really the case? Vlad Brătuleanu is probably the first to use archival documents and […]
October 26, 2018 / #Brochures
The images drawn by Livia Rusz (sometime in the early 1960s) have been entirely rearranged in order to invent a new story, with a narrative and rhetorical style which are unusual for children’s literature. This is a brochure for each and every child, even more so for the naughty and rebellious ones. Csipike’s story contains […]
April 2, 2020
We have failed to recognize the failures of our societies, of our own desires and wants, our dreams and hopes – manufactured elsewhere –, and that of the systems that structure our world. Although there have been numerous voices telling us that we are heading off a cliff, we did not heed their warnings, nor […]
MoreMarch 15, 2020
Yes, you’ve probably heard them on TV, on the radio, or read about their pitiful cries on financial sites, in open letters addressed to government officials through social media sites. Yes, you know about them. They didn’t plan for this crisis, they never expected this. Things were going well for them, how could they have […]
MoreMarch 14, 2020
Pandemic and coronavirus (Covid-19) are the words used almost everywhere around the world. The fear is real and it’s spreading like wildfire with every passing second. But, in times of panic and fear, we should not fall prey to the fearmongers who profit off the disgusting panic shows they put on tv or on different […]
MoreJanuary 14, 2020
So through individual action and collective alternatives we may find ourselves not needing royal institutions any more – we will get to states in other posts –, leaving them to decay in their castles and mansions and, maybe in the future, transfer them into museums for future generations to see our progress.
MoreJanuary 12, 2020
Almost a week ago the Whitehouse announced that it had successfully conducted a drone attack in which general Quasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, was killed. Just a few days ago, national outlets from Iran stated that the country’s air forces launched numerous ground to ground missiles targeting two American bases in Iraq.
MoreSeptember 17, 2019
Anarchism seems to have attracted a steady growing interest since the late nineties. The number and quality of studies since, dedicated to the various facets of a movement previously and for a long time relegated to oblivion or derision, bear solid testimony to an apparently newly discovered relevance of the subject, translated both in its […]
MoreSeptember 2, 2019
Panait Mușoiu (1864-1944) lived for a while on an alleyway next to Văcărești Street. A sort of Thoreau from the slums of Bucharest, “Pious Panait” as his friends jokingly called him was one of the shabby Jewish neighbourhood’s most familiar faces. Some kind of an eccentric wiseman, the anarchist Mușoiu gained the admiration of those […]
MoreJune 22, 2019
Notice La langue française est une des langues de la naissance de l’anarchisme et de ses premières formulations. Pour la plupart des anarchistes roumains, elle a été vraiment la langue de „l’anarchie”. C’est justement par son intermédiaire que les idées anarchistes ont été découvertes, explorées et circulées au début en Roumanie. Les liens entre les […]
MoreFebruary 1, 2019
*The present review was initially published in Bună – Zeitschrift für Befreiung & Emanzipation – nicht nur in Rumänien, a german anarchist magazine, in 2018. Edited by Martin Veith, a researcher who has already published two books dedicated to the history of Romania’s anarchist and syndicalist movements, one about Panait Mușoiu and the other about Ștefan Gheorghiu, […]
MoreJanuary 31, 2019
*** The present interview was initially published in Bună – Zeitschrift für Befreiung & Emanzipation – nicht nur in Rumänien, a german anarchist magazine, in 2018. Edited by Martin Veith, a researcher who has already published two books dedicated to the history of Romania’s anarchist and syndicalist movements, one about Panait Mușoiu and the other about Ștefan […]
MoreJanuary 6, 2019
Photo description: Abdullah Öcalan’s book “Prison Writings: The Roots of Civilization” laying tilted on top of Lewis Mumford’s “The City in History”. This photo was in no way chosen accidentally. Both if viewed from the interdependence between the two books, but also viewed from the future, so stay tuned for more :). Future aside, for […]
MoreDecember 14, 2018
(Az eredeti cikk román nyelven készült és 2018. december 14-én jelent meg) Budapesten napok óta több ezer felháborodott diák és szakszervezeti tag tüntet azellen a törvénymódosítás ellen, amelyet a magyar miniszterelnök támogatott és, amelyet a parlament hagyott jóvá. A módosítás olyan jogokkal ruházza fel a munkaadókat, amelyeknek megfelelően a munkavállalókat akár évi 400 óra túlórázásra […]
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