through europe - protest http://th-rough.eu/taxonomy/term/164/0 en The New Black Jacobins: On the Rejection of the Clergy in the Ferguson Revolt http://th-rough.eu/writers/mossetti-eng/new-black-jacobins-rejection-clergy-ferguson-revolt <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtecenter"> <img alt="" rel="lightbox" src="/sites/default/files2/catholicpriestmexico-jpg.jpeg" style="width: 560px; height: 349px;" /></p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p class="rtejustify" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415218663638_14663"> <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415218663638_14662">The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious&nbsp;than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary&nbsp;passion soon appeased.</i></p> <p class="rtejustify" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415218663638_14661"> <b>-&nbsp;</b>C. L. R. James</p> <p class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</p> <p class="rtejustify" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415218663638_14628"> Something new and important happened during the &ldquo;weekend of resistance&rdquo; in St. Louis, Missouri. The event, organized by the campaign group Hands Up United plus a myriad groups from across the US, was billed as four days of civil disobedience, mass protest and debates to respond to the killing of an unarmed 18 year-old by a white police officer on August 9 in Ferguson.</p> <p class="rtejustify" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415218663638_14644"> What happened there went beyond the routinely protest against police violence and grotesque militarization of urban space. It entered a deeper confrontation: that taking place between the younger and the older generation of black activists. A generational divide that may probably mark and set the tone for the future fights to come.</p> <p class="rtejustify" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415218663638_14645"> On October 12, I was one of the 2,000 people who attended an interfaith rally at St. Louis University&rsquo;s Chaifetz Arena. The event featured noted author Cornel West&nbsp;as keynote speaker, in front of an audience composed by a majority of black people and a numerous contingent of &ldquo;white allies&rdquo; (as they are dubbed in activist circles) cheering at every intervention. It was the &ldquo;American tradition&rdquo; of civil rights movements ready for the usual show-off.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/mossetti-eng/new-black-jacobins-rejection-clergy-ferguson-revolt" target="_blank">read more</a></p> mossetti-eng activism african-american black ferguson police brutality protest struggle tactics English Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:03:25 +0000 Paolo Mossetti 373 at http://th-rough.eu «Trasformano il timore in indignazione». La Comune di Madrid e il movimento globale. http://th-rough.eu/writers/assennato-ita/%C2%ABtrasformano-il-timore-indignazione%C2%BB-la-comune-di-madrid-e-il-movimento-global <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> <strong>0 - 1676: </strong>Scrive Spinoza, nel suo Trattato Politico (IV, 4), che il potere politico pecca - viene meno alla sua ragion d&rsquo;essere - quando pensa di poter fare quello che vuole di una cosa che considera in suo possesso. Persino la propriet&agrave; insomma, fonte ultima dell&rsquo;unico n&oacute;mos ancora positivo in terra, esiste all&rsquo;interno d&rsquo;un limite, superato il quale essa diviene impedimento, dominio parassitario sul libero dispiegarsi della vita collettiva. &laquo;Analogamente - continua il filosofo - se pure diciamo che gli uomini non godono del loro diritto, ma sono soggetti al diritto della societ&agrave; civile ci&ograve; non significa che hanno cessato di essere uomini per acquistare un&rsquo;altra natura, e che quindi la societ&agrave; abbia diritto di far s&igrave; che gli uomini [...] riguardino con tutti gli onori cose che provocano il riso o la nausea&raquo;. Se il potere costituito d&agrave; mostra delle sue corruzioni, o viola e disprezza le leggi che s&rsquo;&egrave; dato e sulle quali si regge, se impedisce la vita della collettivit&agrave; o rapina gli uomini e le donne allora &laquo;il timore si trasforma in indignazione&raquo;.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/assennato-ita/%C2%ABtrasformano-il-timore-indignazione%C2%BB-la-comune-di-madrid-e-il-movimento-global" target="_blank">read more</a></p> assennato-ita Europe european movement indignados protest Spain struggle urge Italian Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:00:58 +0000 Marco Assennato 211 at http://th-rough.eu Dlaczego Wielka Brytania natychmiast potrzebuje Brygad Międzynarodowych http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-pol/dlaczego-wielka-brytania-natychmiast-potrzebuje-brygad-mi%C4%99dzynarodowych <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> <em>&nbsp; &ndash; Bardziej niż wyb&oacute;r walk, wyzwaniem jest czasem wybieranie p&oacute;l walki &ndash;</em></p> <p class="rtejustify"> W całej Europie młodzież, pracownicy, bezrobotni, emeryci, migranci i rodziny mierzą się z jednakowo posępnym zestawem środk&oacute;w zaciskania pasa, kapitalistyczną reakcją oraz brutalnością policji. Nie spos&oacute;b nie przywołać tutaj ulubionego powiedzenia brytyjskiego premiera: w tym historycznym momencie europejskie klasy niższe i średnie rzeczywiście &bdquo;są w tym wszystkim razem&rdquo;.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-pol/dlaczego-wielka-brytania-natychmiast-potrzebuje-brygad-mi%C4%99dzynarodowych" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-pol anarchism capitalism crisis protest struggle UK urge Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:25:13 +0000 Federico Campagna 200 at http://th-rough.eu Why the UK needs International Brigades, now. http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/why-uk-needs-international-brigades-now <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> <em>- More than battles, sometimes the challenge is to pick battle-fields -</em></p> <p class="rtejustify"> All across Europe, youth, workers, the unemployed, retirees, migrants and families are today facing the same bleak army of austerity measures, capitalist backlash and police brutality. Like the British Prime Minister loves to say, in this historical moment the European lower and middle classes truly are &lsquo;all in this together&rsquo;.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/why-uk-needs-international-brigades-now" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-eng anarchism capitalism crisis protest struggle UK urge English Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:13:01 +0000 Federico Campagna 199 at http://th-rough.eu London Jacquerie http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/london-jacquerie <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> Sono quasi quattrocento anni che una rivolta di queste dimensioni non si verifica a Londra. Quest&rsquo;inverno, durante le manifestazioni degli studenti inglesi, la stampa internazionale aveva parlato di &lsquo;riots&rsquo;, di subbugli, di insurrezione. Un tipico caso di esagerazione giornalistica. Stavolta no. Ma stavolta &egrave; diverso.</p> <p class="rtejustify"> Le riots di questi giorni, iniziate sabato 7 agosto durante una manifestazione di protesta per l&rsquo;uccisione di un giovane da parte della polizia, hanno un tono che ricorda pi&ugrave; le banlieues parigine che la guerriglia urbana dei black bloc. Da tre giorni la capitale Britannica &egrave; attraversata da un&rsquo;ondata di jacquerie semi-fantascientifiche, in cui i moti di folla da ancien regime si incontrano con i messaggi istantanei lanciati dai BlackBerries.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/london-jacquerie" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-eng london protest psychopathology riots struggle UK youth English Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:59:20 +0000 Federico Campagna 198 at http://th-rough.eu Teaching Insurrection: Franco Berardi Bifo @ Brera Academy, Milan http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/teaching-insurrection-franco-berardi-bifo-brera-academy-milan <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtecenter"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="281" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21160879" width="500"></iframe></p> <p class="rtejustify"> I would like to talk about something that everybody knows, but that, so it seems, no one has the boldness to say. That is, that the time for indignation is over. Those who get indignant are already starting to bore us. Increasingly, they seem to us like the last guardians of a rotten system, a system without dignity, sustainability or credibility. We don&#39;t have to get indignant anymore, we have to revolt.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/teaching-insurrection-franco-berardi-bifo-brera-academy-milan" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-eng education insurrection Italy lecture milan protest students English Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:31:22 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 151 at http://th-rough.eu A scuola di rivolta - Franco Berardi Bifo all'Accademia di Brera, Milano http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/scuola-di-rivolta-franco-berardi-bifo-allaccademia-di-brera-milano <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtecenter"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="281" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21090563" width="500"></iframe></p> <p class="rtejustify"> Vorrei parlare di una cosa che tutti sappiamo ma che nessuno sembra avere la spudoratezza di dire: e cio&egrave; che il tempo dell&#39;indignazione &egrave; passato e chi si indigna gi&agrave; comincia ad annoiarci, comincia a parerci ogni giorno di pi&ugrave; l&rsquo;ultimo difensore di un sistema marcio, di un sistema privo di dignit&agrave;, privo di sostenibilit&agrave;, privo di credibilit&agrave;. Noi non ci dobbiamo pi&ugrave; indignare, noi dobbiamo insorgere.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/scuola-di-rivolta-franco-berardi-bifo-allaccademia-di-brera-milano" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-ita education insurrection Italy lecture milan protest students Italian Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:46:17 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 150 at http://th-rough.eu Dangerous alliances: class and the student movement http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/dangerous-alliances-class-and-student-movement <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> Recently, I have been asked several times by Italian friends and comrades to talk about the British student movement. I must confess that their questions always made me feel slightly embarrassed.<br /> At first, I tried to forget about this uncomfortable feeling, talking about the rise of a new civic participation, which had been lacking in this country since the 1980s, with the brief exception of the anti-war movement of 2003. Then, in my heart of hearts, I tried to offer to my embarrassment the acknowledgment that in the UK, at the moment, there is not a &lsquo;movement&rsquo; as such, rather a constellation of small groups and organizations.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/dangerous-alliances-class-and-student-movement" target="_blank">read more</a></p> campagna-eng class european movement proletariat protest struggle students UK English Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:47:31 +0000 Federico Campagna 135 at http://th-rough.eu Non sentite l'odore del fumo? http://th-rough.eu/writers/mossetti-ita/non-sentite-lodore-del-fumo <span class='print-link'></span><p class="rtejustify"> Le Regole! Va bene combattere il Tiranno, ma guai a toccare le Regole. Le Regole sono i chicchi del rosario al quale si aggrappano i martiri del berlusconismo, mentre i suoi pretoriani li gettano nella fossa coi leoni. Da una parte abbiamo un potere che corrompe giudici, paga servizi segreti deviati, usa tv e giornali come carri armati, assolda qualunque firma e volto compiacente per scatenare condanne infami anche sulle manifestazioni pi&ugrave; innocue.</p> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/mossetti-ita/non-sentite-lodore-del-fumo" target="_blank">read more</a></p> mossetti-ita berlusconi Italy left protest violence Italian Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:10:58 +0000 Paolo Mossetti 133 at http://th-rough.eu