Source: Pamphlet entitled Palabras a los Intelectuales (Words to Intellectuals), Havana, National Cultural Council, 1961, 32 p. Male and female Comrades: It is now time for us to take our turn, following three Sessions at which various problems related with… Continue Reading
By Zethu Matebeni Violence towards queer bodies Zanele Muholi’s short video project for Puma’s Films4peace 2013, https://vimeo.com/73943643, was the starting point for this essay. I was intrigued by the women’s cry in the video as well as the final… Continue Reading
By Haris A. Durrani The global quality of uprisings posed an important question in 3/13: The Arab Spring, as it has throughout Uprising[1]. Interlocutors debated the extent to which a conception of uprising, the “Arab Spring,” homogenizes a set… Continue Reading
By Charles Pletcher In the first chapter of the Eighteenth Brumaire, Karl Marx writes, “The former revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to smooth their own content. The revolution of the nineteenth century must let the… Continue Reading
By Sami Cleland Introduction Ghandi’s innovations were first “to self-consciously theorize and practice nonviolence as a novel form of political action,” and second, “to make satyagraha a mass politics.[1]” There is no doubt that non-violence “remains a [potent modality of… Continue Reading