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rest in power Frederic Jameson.

days of speed and slow-time mondays / pissing down with rain on a boring wednesday / watching the news and not eating your tea / a freezing cold flat with damp on the walls

In the town of Sahnaya, in the Damascus countryside, Syrian Christians are celebrating the fall of the regime. "One, one, one, the Syrian people are one" they chant

“it is necessary that an event, which is a sort of grace supernumerary to every particularity, be what one proceeds from in order to cast off differences.“ -AB

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Progressives can believe what they like, socialists on the contrary should be under no illusions that "free speech" was ever intended for the likes of us.

Antisemitism used to be when you denied a holocaust. Now it's when you don't support one

oh so you want to Abolish The Police? next time there's a mass shooting, who's gonna arrest a random bystander in a scary shirt that says "palestine"? have you considered that, eh?

International institutions were not designed to ensure universal rights. They were designed to maintain the core-periphery hierarchies of the world system. If we want universal rights we have to create new institutions through anti-imperialist and anti-racist struggle.

know the feeling but: (a) global public understanding of what the hell is going on here is at an astonishing and historically unprecedented level. >>

I think it's fair to warn that Albanese's "two-state" solution and recognition of Palestine under current conditions are meant to distract and derail the #FreePalestine movement. Do not fall for this con job.

The concept of making Palestinian statehood conditional on disarming the very group resisting + trying to survive occupation + genocide is obscene. The moral depravity of a foreign power making that a condition while you watch your population die. White supremacist colonial slop.

Naarm won’t stop until Palestine is free

It makes zero sense that Iran would fund two low level low impact attacks on Jewish institutions in Australia. For what purpose? How does upsetting a handful of Jews and weaponising antisemitism advance Iran’s global interests. Wong and Albo must think we’re fucking mushrooms.

The explicit killing of one man: barbarism, cruelty, the basic social compact breaking down. The implicit killing of thousands of children through direct policy choices: "complicated", morally justifiable, "an unfortunate consequence"