Autonomies: **George Orwell: Vanity and despotism**

https://autonomies.org/2026/03/george-orwell-vanity-and-despotism/

But what light does our difference here throw upon the problem before us? What connection is there between the sartorial splendours of the educated man and the photograph of ruined houses and dead bodies? Obviously the connection between dress and … Continue reading →

#Commentary #Antimilitarism #Colonialismandanticolonialism #GeorgeOrwell #Stateandterror
George Orwell: Vanity and despotism | Autonomies

Autonomies: **Giorgio Agamben: State and terror**

https://autonomies.org/2026/03/giorgio-agamben-state-and-terror/

What is a state that, ignoring all forms of law, methodically murders or kidnaps the leaders of states it arbitrarily declares to be its enemies? Nevertheless, this is what is happening with the approval or embarrassed silence of European countries. … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben: State and terror | Autonomies

Autonomies: **See ICE? Add Heat**

https://autonomies.org/2026/02/see-ice-add-heat/

From Ill Will (13/02/2026), by anonymous authors Yesterday, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan announced the end of Operation Metro Surge, which brought several thousand ICE and CBP agents to the streets of Minnesota over the past few months. While this … Continue reading →

#Commentary #Insurrection #Noborders #Revolution #Stateandterror #Stateterror #Unitedstates
See ICE? Add Heat | Autonomies

Autonomies: **Nate Holdren: Against The Border Power**

https://autonomies.org/2026/02/nate-holdren-against-the-border-power/

The article that follows was originally posted here, at buttondown.com (05/02/2026) and subsequently here, at libcom.org (10/02/2026). As I’ve mentioned a while back I wrote a letter to Little Village saying deportation as such is wrong, that we should think of it … Continue reading →

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Nate Holdren: Against The Border Power | Autonomies

Autonomies: **The Road to Prairieland**

https://autonomies.org/2026/02/the-road-to-prairieland/

From the CrimethInc. collective (13/02/2026) The Crackdown on Anti-ICE Activists in Texas Reflects a Pattern of Intensifying Repression On July 4, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility imprisoning immigrants facing deportation … Continue reading →

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The Road to Prairieland | Autonomies

Autonomies: **Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The law of fire**

https://autonomies.org/2026/02/rodrigo-karmy-bolton-the-law-of-fire/

From Ficción de la razón (21/01/2026) 1. In a short text dedicated to his daughter Anima entitled Land and Sea, the German jurist Carl Schmitt proposed the term nomos of the land to refer to the “original appropriation of space” … Continue reading →

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Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The law of fire | Autonomies

Autonomies: **State integration forced on Rojava**

https://autonomies.org/2026/01/state-integration-forced-on-rojava/

From Freedom News (20/01/2026) Islamist attacks and great-power manoeuvres place the revolution in existential threat Blade Runner Recent weeks’ clashes between Syrian state forces and Kurdish forces have developed into a multi-front assault on Rojava, threatening open war as a … Continue reading →

#Newsblog #Rojava #Stateandterror
State integration forced on Rojava | Autonomies

Autonomies: **Giorgio Agamben: War is peace**

https://autonomies.org/2025/11/giorgio-agamben-war-is-peace/

Among the horrors of war that are often forgotten is its survival in peacetime through industrial transformations. It is well known – but forgotten – that the barbed wire with which many still fence their fields and properties comes from … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben: War is peace | Autonomies

Autonomies: **Morocco: The Gen Z 212 Uprising**

https://autonomies.org/2025/10/morocco-the-gen-z-212-uprising/

An interview, from Crimethinc. (13/10/2025) Beginning with the toppling of the president of Sri Lanka in 2022 and the 2024 uprising in Bangladesh, a new revolutionary ferment has begun to spread around the world, gaining momentum with the uprising in Indonesia in August 2025 … Continue reading →

#Interview #Insurrection #Morocco #Stateandterror
Morocco: The Gen Z 212 Uprising | Autonomies

Autonomies: **For Gianfranco Sanguinetti (1948-2025)**

https://autonomies.org/2025/10/for-gianfranco-sanguinetti-1948-2025/

The theory of the revolution certainly does not depend on the sole area of properly scientific ideas, and still less on the construction of a speculative achievement, or on the aesthetic of that fiery manner of speech that contemplates itself … Continue reading →

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For Gianfranco Sanguinetti (1948-2025) | Autonomies