Enigma, Knowledge and Revolt
by
Mare Almani
“And when the foam of the arrogant waves flows back sighing,
the lustrous pearls of life lie on the sand.”
—Giorgio Colli, La Ragione Errabonda (The Wandering Reason)
Monthly Archives: October 2013
The Dream of My Adolescence (from Vertice – 1921)
Renzo Novatore
written under the pseudonym Sibilia Vane
May the wisdom of rotten idiots not sneer nor the idiotic chastity of decent young ladies be scandalized.
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Papua Prison Island
An expression of people’s desire for freedom, cries of “Papua Merdeka” continue to ring out through the cities, mountains and forests of West Papua. The struggle is against fifty years of Indonesian rule, which throughout the last half-century has violently tried to subdue Papua, in its attempts to create a unified nation from the 17,000 islands that once made up the Dutch Empire.
Freedom as expressed by the word ‘merdeka’ is primarily a call for political independence, although the word is imbued with the clear hope that a new national sovereignty would also bring a wider liberation. Even when used outside the context of nations, ‘merdeka’ carries a sense of autonomy or self-reliance; from the same Sanskrit root Indonesian also inherited the word mahardika, meaning wisdom or nobility.
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UNA MATTINA A MILANO TANTI ANNI FA (A.M. Bonanno)
Tre colpi di pistola, e Calabresi, il commissario dell’Ufficio politico della questura di Milano responsabile della morte dell’anarchico Pinelli, viene ucciso all’uscita della propria abitazione.
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Indonesia: They Fight for the Forest (2012)
target=”_blank”>Hidup Biasa, translation from Serum #3
The Iban Dayaks from Semunying had always lived simply alongside their natural environment. Then in 2005 an oil palm plantation company appeared, wanting to take over the ancestral forest that had been the backbone of people’s livelihoods for generations.
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Kulon Progo Farmer Tukijo Freed From Prison
Tukijo finally walked free from Yogyakarta prison this morning, to be welcomed by his family, farmers from Kulon Progo and supporters of their struggle. There was no holding back the emotion as his friends hugged him in turn – a pointless and vindictive ordeal was over at last.
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Una lettura di Nazionalismo e Cultura, Rudolf Rocker (1937) it/fr
Nationalism and Culture, 1937, Los Angeles, Rocker Publications Committee. Il libro doveva uscire in tedesco, quando il nazismo prese il potere e l’esilio forzato di Rudolf Rocker portò il suo manoscritto fino agli Stati Uniti.
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UK – The struggle against the existent continues (2011)
Paco Ortíz, a Definition of Struggle (2011) en/es
From Tokata (September 1, 2011):
Note from TIOJ: Our resistance is peopled with countless heroes who fight and die in obscurity. One of the purposes of This Is Our Job is to eradicate that obscurity by bringing their stories and voices to light. One such hero is Paco Ortíz.
Born in Antequera, but cosmopolitan, thrown into the world. His trade: repo man of surplus value, bank robber feared by the Civil Guard and other zombie hordes. To stop him, they once shot 114 bullets into the vehicle he was traveling in. By sheer luck, only one of the two people inside was injured. Paco, unscathed, heard the Civil Guard pricks coming, heard them ask: “And if we finish them off?” As well as a fighter, a strategist. The two successive Puerto I rebellions were coordinated by him and another outstanding Paco (nom de guerre: B——).
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Marcelo Villarroel: Words of rage and war, words of solidarity. To combat the Prison-Capital-State. (2010) en/es
From Hommodolars Contrainformación (December 15, 2010):
My mind is once again overwhelmed by a sad mixture of shock, rage, and pain. This time, a new dose of harsh reality is exposed to the world, as solid evidence of society’s sickness wakes me from my dreams to daybreak in a punishment cell.
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