What is the Workshop?
The Workshop for Intercommunal Study: Critical Analysis for Collective Action “I can’t be a pessimist… because I’m alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life […]
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CNI/EZLN: The Time Has Come
This communique was originally published by Enlace Zapatista. To To the People of Mexico, To the Peoples of the World, To the Media, To the National and International Sixth, We send […]
Read moreAlvaro Reyes: Zapatismo: Other Geographies Circa the “End of the World”
Originally Published by Society and Space. Introduction: the walking dead As daylight broke across the Southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas on 21 December 2012, news cameras fixated on the throngs […]
Read moreWhat is the Workshop?
“I can’t be a pessimist… because I’m alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So I’m forced to be an optimist. I’m forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.” —James Baldwin
Read moreRoundup #10: An Indigenous Governing Council for Mexico
What would a campaign promoting large-scale, organized, autonomous, self-government look like? We’re about to find out!! Last October, the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation […]
Read moreOn the ‘Hodor Effect’ Paralyzing the US Left
Anna Curcio, militant scholar and coordinator of Commonware.org, interviews Alvaro Reyes of the Workshop for Intercommunal Study about Charlottesville, white supremacy, and contemporary challenges for politics in the US. [Original at Commonware in […]
Read moreRoundup #3
– “The Economic Crisis in Fact and Fiction” by Paul Mattick with John Clegg and Aaron Benanav
– “1 in 4 Americans Apparently Unaware the Earth Orbits the Sun” by Samantha Grossman
– “Speech on the Kurdish Struggle at EZLN Capitalist Hydra Seminar” by Havin Guneser
– “Capitalism and the Destruction of Life on Earth: Six Theses on Saving the Humans” by Richard Smith
– “The age of humanism is ending” by Achille Mbembe
Roundup #2
– “Manifesto Against Labour” by the Krisis Group
– “Crisis: Tendencias y alternativas” by Pablo González Casanova
– “Until We Win: Black Labor and Liberation in the Disposable Era” by Kali Akuno
– “Building Democracy without the State” by Dilar Dirik
– “Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here” by Cornel West
Achille Mbembe: The age of humanism is ending
This article was originally published on Dec 22, 2016 in Mail & Guardian. There is no sign that 2017 will be much different from 2016. Under Israeli occupation for decades, […]
Read moreRichard Smith: Capitalism and the Destruction of Life on Earth: Six Theses on Saving the Humans
This article was originally published Nov 10, 2013 in Truthout. As global capitalist economic growth accelerates planetary ecological collapse, this article, originally published on November 10, 2013, argues that – impossible […]
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