The Paris Attacks, Refugees, and the Brutal Fiction of Borders
By Molly Crabapple November 19, 2015The night the Islamic State attacked Paris, I was translating a book by the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani.The regularity of the work was what kept my brain from...
View Article'Wrong Side of History': Outrage as US Congress Moves to Block Syrian Refugees
Lawmakers spew xenophobic rhetoric just days after governors levy threats to keep out those fleeing warby Sarah Lazare, staff writer November 18, 2015 by Common DreamsThe xenophobic rhetoric that...
View ArticleLosing Ground: Syria's Climate Nomads
by Evan CestariBlack & Green ReviewThe climate wars have already begun. In the parlance of the State, climate change has proven to be a “threat multiplier” that has become typified by, among other...
View ArticleWhy Migration Should Be Central to Paris COP21 Climate Talks
By Harsha Walia November 25, 2015 TelesurvClimate refugees and displaced peoples bear the brunt of environmental violence.“We live in constant fear of the adverse impacts of climate change. For a coral...
View ArticleWhat It's Like to Spend New Year's as a Refugee in a Greek Anarchist Shelter
Ioana Moldovan January 9, 2016 Huffington PostATHENS, Greece -- The clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, and the room on the ground floor of this former tax administration building is filled with...
View ArticleEurope: Between Rape and Racism
by b. traven Crimethinc Feb 16th, 2016As Europe descends further into nationalism and xenophobia, we are seeing feminist, atheist, and progressive discourses appropriated to serve reactionary ends....
View ArticleFrom Dover to Calais to Brussels, the border regime is in violent panic
Freedom U.K. February 6, 2016Cover photo: Tear-gas attack by riot cops in CalaisThe recent anti-migrant demonstration by the National Front and other assorted fascist backwash is among a rising tide of...
View ArticleWaiting for the Barbarians
Who are the real barbarians? The refugees or those who caused them to flee?Jesús SepúlvedaFifth Estate #396, Summer 2016, Vol. 51, No. 1, page 25http://www.fifthestate.org/In August 2015, as refugees...
View ArticleObservations on Brexit and Lexit in the UK EU membership referendum
by Various June 24, 2016 Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland)Observations from anarchist in Ireland on the UK EU membership referendum. The referendum will take place in north east Ireland which is...
View ArticleAnarchists Fill Services Void Left by Faltering Greek Governance
By NIKI KITSANTONIS New York Times MAY 22, 2017ATHENS — It may seem paradoxical, but Greece’s anarchists are organizing like never before.Seven years of austerity policies and a more recent refugee...
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