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Tegen het Russische imperialisme
Russische Socialistische Beweging RSD, Sotsialnyi Rukh -
Hoewel de meerderheid van links de Russische invasie in Oekraïne heeft veroordeeld, ontbreekt het nog steeds aan eenheid in het linkse kamp. We willen ons richten tot diegenen ter linkerzijde die nog…
Solidarity with the victims of Ankara massacre
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On 10th of October, at least 106 activists were killed and hundreds were injured in a demonstration for peace, labor and democracy in Ankara. Several people are still missing. The victims were…
Turkey's murderous regime
Bertil Videt -
 You still risk your life for peacefully expressing your opinion. That is a gruesome lesson of yesterday’s awful massacre of peace demonstrators in Ankara.  The scope and the brutality of…
Attacks against solidarity with Kobane: the Suruç massacre of young socialists
Maral Jefroudi -
A suicide attack killed at least 30 young socialists in Suruç in Urfa, the Turkish city near the Syrian border today.  The attack to the Amara Culture Center, where at least 300 members of the…
From “huis” to “huis” we reclaim the university
Yannis Tzaninis -
In the last months, student and staff protests have taken the University of Amsterdam by storm. The protest movement against UvA’s decade-long neoliberal reforms seems very recent but its foundations…
HDP’s poetic call for “Great Humanity” and the Parliamentary elections in Turkey
Maral Jefroudi -
The parliamentary elections in Turkey will take place this Sunday. 54 million people can vote for a new parliament on June 7th. The electoral scene is focused on the HDP, the Peoples' Democratic…
Pasokification of British Labour
Jack Ferguson -
 The results of last week's UK general election were surprising and shocking for many. There were two reasons for this: the unexpected increase in Tory seats, which confounded pollsters and…
Solidarity with Kobane! Support the Kurdish resistance!
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The fundamentalist extremists of the so-called 'Islamic State' (IS) have massacred thousands. The government of Iraq has been unable and unwilling to stop them. The Syrian Kurdish Partiya Yekîtiya…
An internationalist fighter
Maral Jefroudi -
Suphi Nejat Agirnasli, known under his party name Paramaz Kizilbas, was killed fighting ISIS on the 7th of October in Kobane. He was a 30 year old sociologist, who had worked on the dangerous working…
Solidarity with the Palestinians! Boycott Israel!
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 The news from Gaza fills us with disgust and anger. What parts of the media refer to as a 'conflict' or a 'war' is nothing of the sort. The Israeli army, by far the most powerful killing…
Insurgent squares: the spatial practices of the political
Erik Swyngedouw -
“…the people is those who, refusing to be the population, disrupt the system.” (1 Tahrir Square, Assaha-al-Khadra, Syntagma Square, Green Square, Zuccotti Park, Paternoster Square, Puerta del Sol,…
What is going on in Spain?
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The 1st February, a demostration took place in Amsterdam against the new Spanish law on abortion. The demo was called by Casa Kliniek and attended by around 200 people. This text was distributed by…
We are at a Crossroads
Borderless -
Since our last issue, we have observed two historic rebellions against regimes in Ukraine and Bosnia. In previous issues, we have written about the popular uprisings in several Arab countries, in…
Fortress Europe updated: Turning borderlands into storage houses for unwanted migrants
Manolis -
Since early 2010, facing a severe economic and political crisis characterized by uncertainty and austerity measures resulting in rising unemployment and steep decreases in salaries and welfare…
EU Elections [box]
Bertil Videt -
General indifference is the most widespread issue for the European Elections, coming up in May. Polls suggest new records in abstention and an alarming surge for the far right. The European Union is…
A new anti-racist movement
Alex de Jong -
What was left of the image of the Netherlands as a tolerant, welcoming society was shaken the last few months by revelations of racist police, international criticism of Dutch immigration policies…
Academia in crisis, management in denial
Boris Slijper -
Early in 2012, the Rector Magnificus of the University of Amsterdam surprised friend and foe alike when in her annual Dies Natalis speech she stated that universities should train students to become…
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