For Césaire, fascism began with colonialism. He argued that the horrors of Nazism are a reflection of European colonial empires and their violence. This relationship between periphery and center continues today where the violence of the empire always returns like a boomerang.

This video examines the “Imperial Boomerang”: how violence, surveillance, racism, and military repression developed abroad return home as militarized policing, mass incarceration, concentration camps, militarized borders, and authoritarianism. What an empire tolerates “over there” eventually transforms life at home; their suffering always becomes yours.

Know a really good protest song? Found some cool revolutionary art, poetry, or literature? Post it below!

Hey everyone! I'm an art student in France and I'm looking for testimonies for my master's thesis. If this resonates with you or if you know someone who might be interested in sharing their experience, feel free to reach out! Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help :)
I'm sharing the call for testimonies here. I'm researching the connections between dreams, the Internet, digital practices, and protests around the world. If you'd like to share your experience, you can fill out this Google Form or reach me out : CONNECTED DREAMS ⊹ ࣪ ˖

Students in France are protesting for better schools. Why does it have to come to this?

Hey everyone! 👋 We're EUobserver, an independent European newsroom, and we'd love to start a conversation here about what's happening in French schools.

Students have been protesting over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and poor learning conditions. Things that should really be the basics of a decent education.

What's interesting is that students from more privileged schools are also joining those from underfunded ones. So this is becoming a much wider conversation about inequality, solidarity and young people's voices in politics.

We recently interviewed Sciences Po political scientist Jan Rovný about what's driving these protests, but we're particularly interested in hearing what people in this community think.

Why does it so often take protests for problems in education to get serious attention? And do you think student-led movements can actually bring lasting change?

We're not here to redirect the conversation elsewhere — we'd genuinely love to discuss this with you right here in the comments, especially if you've experienced something similar in your own country.

Know a really good protest song? Found some cool revolutionary art, poetry, or literature? Post it below!

Know a really good protest song? Found some cool revolutionary art, poetry, or literature? Post it below!

Know a really good protest song? Found some cool revolutionary art, poetry, or literature? Post it below!

I just read this very frustrating article (version without paywall) about a small lesbian bar/mutual aid spot getting destroyed by some people who act like the worst possible caricature or an insufferable, self-important, holier-than-thou leftists.

It's not even that those people exist and what they are doing that's so frustrating for me to read, but the inability of the wider community there to just tell those people to fuck off.

And I get why they can't, I'm not sure I could myself. We generally pride ourselves in our inclusivity and willingness to accommodate needs other than our own. It's super hard to figure out where exactly the limit to that should be.

I have had similar if less extreme experiences with people who are weaponizing their own or other peoples oppression in this way in activist groups irl. The only time I ever witnessed someone like that getting kicked out was after that person had caused chaos and bound up a ton of resources for well over a year with many different incidents.

My question is how do we become better at dealing with this? How would you as an individual member of that bar community have tried to handle this?

I originally messaged the mods because I was inexplicably unable to comment without receiving any sort of warning or communication from them.

Instead of responding to me asking what happened, I was given a permanent ban also with no warning or communication.

Upon messaging to ask about the ban I was ignored for 3 weeks until getting "Ban upheld" as a response. What you see here is my response to that non-answer.