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Remembering as resistance: decolonizing Bolivian history
This is an excerpt from Ben Dangl’s “The Five Hundred Year Rebellion” (AK Press, 2019) After centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century riddled with dictatorships, Indigenous peoples in...
View ArticleCan Barcelona rekindle its radical imagination?
The night of 26 May 2019 was a bad one for Spain’s so-called Fearless Cities. Four years after winning local elections, the left-wing municipal platforms that governed Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza, A...
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The trap of trickle-down anti-Islamophobia
In this time of ascendant Islamophobia permitted to rampage largely unchecked — a time when Muslim bans are upheld by the US Supreme Court and hijab bans are metastasizing, from Austria to Quebec — the...
View ArticleThe revolt of the fearless generation
Translated from French by Joshua Richeson. When in early February Algeria’s ailing octogenarian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for the presidency for a fifth term,...
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How Spain’s Vox fortifies neo-fascist internationalism
The crisis of neoliberal capital has fostered the rise of far-right politics across the globe. In Europe, many “neo”-fascist parties have been gaining significant ground, playing on the sentiments of...
View ArticleThe revolution in Sudan is far from over
A political agreement has been reached between the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) — the broad alliance of civil society and rebel groups leading the revolution in Sudan — and the Transitional...
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Flare up like a forest fire
A Portuguese translation of this text is published by Lavra Palavra. The climate and ecosystems all have tipping points. For instance, it is estimated that 20 percent tree loss in the Amazon will...
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A society in struggle on the slopes of Mauna Kea
All photos by Danielle Da Silva At the base of Mauna Kea, the world’s tallest mountain when measured from its ocean base, the largest land defense action in modern Hawai’ian history is currently taking...
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Feminists on the front lines of the Algerian uprising
Translation from French by Joshua Richeson When in early February Algeria’s ailing octogenarian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for the presidency for a fifth term,...
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Ecuador: a rebellion for the renewal of struggle
The English translation of this article was first published by Toward Freedom. Spanish original via Zur. Over the past days, women, children and elders from the diverse nations and Indigenous...
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On the frontlines of Serbia’s struggle for housing justice
On a cold morning in the autumn of 2017, a group of neighbors, family members and housing activists rally to a call of a family in distress. They are locked inside their apartment, confronted by two...
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Chileans stand fearless in the face of repression
Once again, Chilean students have opened the floodgates for a population exhausted and indebted by decades of neoliberal policies. What began one short week ago as a fare evasion campaign carried out...
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Hevrin Khalaf and the spirit of the democratic nation
My name is Hevrin, from Derik, a city in Rojava. I studied and lived there, but now my work is in Qamishlo. I studied civil engineering in Aleppo for five years and I completed my education in 2009....
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Demanding a life worth living in Chile’s “neoliberal paradise”
This article was first published in Spanish by Lobo Suelto and translated to English for Toward Freedom by Liz Mason-Deese What started as some students protesting by avoiding paying an increase in...
View ArticleEyewitnesses to the Rojava revolution: women empowerment
What has been taking place in Rojava is easily one of the most inspiring and exciting experiments in autonomous self-government to ever exist. It is also one of the most massive, and gender inclusive,...
View ArticleMore than just a “Spring”: the Arab region’s long-term revolution
When in late 2018 the people of Sudan took to the streets demanding an end to Omar al-Bashir’s authoritarian rule, this immediately triggered memories of 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation...
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INVASION
In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up...
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International solidarity: fighting at home for the revolution abroad
In recent weeks, the world has watched in horror as the long-predicted Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria began in full force. NATO’s second largest army and their Jihadist paramilitary proxies are...
View ArticleEvo Morales: from the Rainy Place to the Burnt Palace — and back again
Back in 2005, Evo Morales, then still a poor coca grower, set off on his journey from the Chapare — a lush region in central Bolivia known to the Incas as Ancha Para, or the “place where it rains a...
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Looking back to the future in Bolivia
It was not supposed to end this way. A white supremacist president and her right-wing allies were not supposed to replace Evo Morales in a coup earlier this month. A de facto regime was not supposed to...
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