Refugees resisting state oppression, and solidarity activism in the...
Sunday 19 May, 2013 This article was written for Libcom, and can be read there already. Protest and resistance by refugees and solidarity activists in the Netherlands is meeting serious repression....
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Blockupy!
The article below was written for ROARmag.org, where you can read and enjoy an illstrated version: “Blockupy paralyzes Frankfurt fort second year in a row”. It is an honour get the opportunity to...
View ArticleDouble struggle in Brazil
Monday, 17 June, 2013 Below is an article I wrote for ROARmag.org, where you can find an illustrated and slightly edited version, under the title: “In Brazil, a dual struggle against neoliberalism”....
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Battlefield Indonesia: corporate destruction provokes peasant resistance,...
Monday, 24 June, 2013 Below is my latest piece for ROARmag, where you can already read an edited and illustrated version Price rises are provoking revolt in yet another country. The country is...
View ArticleTrotskyism on the edge – on the SWP crisis
woensdag 10 juli 2013 The piece below was written for my Libcom blog, where you can already read it. A few more notes on the crisis in the SWP that seems to have entered new territory. Months after the...
View ArticleOn the edges of Trotskyism – some of the ones who left the SWP
Friday, 12 July, 2013 This piece was originally written for Libcom, where you can also read it. Some notes on the IS Network, formed by ex-members of the SWP, and on the ideas of Richard Seymour, one...
View ArticleThinking about Egypt: between cynicism and wishful thinking
Monday, 19 August, 2013 On the developments in Egypt, on the framework in which people talk about the devlopments, and a bit on that attitude to take. Already published on my Libcom blog. What follows...
View ArticleRomania: resistance against corporate environmental destruction and...
Thursday 12 September 2013 This article, on insistent protests against an environmentallt destructive mining project in Romania, was written for ROARmag.org, where a slightly differently edited version...
View ArticleUkraine: what’s going on, and what does it mean?
Tuesday, 3 December, 2013 My Libcom piece on Ukraine, posted there this evening Some thoughts on the protests happening in Ukraine. Things are not completely what they may seem. The mass protests...
View ArticleEurope in Ukraine: many things to many people
Sunday, 8 December, 2013 Article, written for Libcom where it also can be read. Again, on the protests in Ukraine; this time mostly on the attitude towards ‘Europe’ among the several forces within the...
View ArticleDear Cheerleaders, we need to have a chat about imperialism
Saturday, 4 April, 2015 Written for Libcom, and just published on my blog there. In Rojava, in the North of Syria, Kurdish fighters are struggling against IS, Islamic State. That struggle deserves out...
View ArticleThe Hague, Netherlands: the heat is on
Thursday, 2 July, 2015/ donderdag 2 juli 2015 Below is an article I just wrote for Libcom.org and posted there. The police killing of Mitch Henriquez has led to three nights of protest and anti-police...
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Racist tide in the Netherlands encounters opposition
Wednesday, 6 januari 2016 This article was written for Doorbraak, where it is published already in an illustrated version and with even more hyperlinks. It is also a blog piece on Libcom. By the way,...
View ArticleSanders campaign reaches its climax
donderdag 14 juli 2016 This article was written for my Libcom blog. You can find it there already. Bernie Sanders finally announced his support for Hillary Clinton as Democratic candidate for the US...
View ArticleNicer ways to do it? Bolivian miners fighting back
vrijdag 26 augustus 2016 First published on my blog on Libcom.org. The article has problems, als I mention in the edit at the beginning. But I will let it stand. Struggle, repression and...
View ArticleAnarchism: basic concepts – Rotterdam lecture notes, more or less
Saturday, 29 October 2016 On 27 October, I did a talk in Rotterdam on ‘Anarchism: basic concepts’. It is the first talk in a series of five. A written version of the talk – not the exact words, but the...
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