By Yavor Tarinski
On 28th of February 2023, a head-on collision occurred between two trains in the Thessaly region of Greece, killing at least 57 people, making it the deadliest rail disaster in Greek history.
Continue reading “Deadly train collision in Greece reveals the dysfunctionality of state and capitalism”Title: Asking questions with the Zapatistas. Reflections from Greece on our Civilizational Impasse
Authors: Theodoros Karyotis, Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi, Yavor Tarinski
Editor: Matthew Little
Cover: Apollon Petropoulos
Design: George Chelebiev
Publisher: Transnational Institute of Social Ecology
Year: 2022
Continue reading “Asking questions with the Zapatistas: Reflections from Greece on our Civilizational Impasse”By Yavor Tarinski
With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear.
~Italo Calvino[1]
In early March, this year, a group of motorized policemen reach a public square in the Athenian neighborhood of Nea Smyrni. There they begin checking the people around whether they have done the proper procedures according to the government’s anti-pandemic measures. Soon after that the policemen begin issuing fines to those who they deem to be outside in violation to the measures, which provoked disagreements among some of those gathered around, without however any sign of violence. Enraged by the calm and reasonable arguments of a young man, some of the officers attack him and start hitting him mercilessly with iron batons (that are not part of Greece’s standard police equipment) all over his body, while he and all those around him beg them to stop. The whole incident is captured on video[2] by many of the passersby.
Continue reading “All Power to the Neighborhoods: Greece Rises Against Police Barbarity”By Yavor Tarinski
On July 7th the SYRIZA party (Coalition of the Radical Left) lost the Greek national elections to the conservative New Democracy with a bitter 8% difference, allowing the latter to form a self-reliance government (something which had not happen since the beginning of the crisis in 2008). Continue reading “SYRIZA’s “long march through the institutions” comes to an end?”
Interview by Yavor Tarinski. You can find the interview in Greek here.
Kristin Ross gave an interview for Babylonia journal, analyzing the meanings and significances of May ’68. She will be speaker at this year’s B-Fest (25th-26th-27th of May in the Fine Arts School in Athens). Ross is a professor of comparative literature at New York University and author of many books like “May ’68 and Its Afterlives”, “The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune” and “Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune”. Continue reading “Interview with Kristin Ross | May ’68: Beyond Artificial Commemorations and Remembrances”
By Antonis Broumas and Yavor Tarinski
1. Introduction
Life on this planet, as we know it, is a result of fragile environmental conditions that the contemporary predominant neoliberal system has already began to alter. Capitalism and its doctrine of unlimited economic growth seems to completely neglect this dependency and continues to violently exploit nature for the benefit of tiny elites, thus increasing their already enormous power. Continue reading “Ecological Struggles in the Neoliberal Era”
By Yavor Tarinski
*The present text was delivered as a speech in a panel, entitled “Overcoming the State”, part of the 3rd Antiauthoritarian Festival in Ioannina, Greece (June, 2017).
[T]he rhetoric of Thatcher and of Reagan has changed nothing of importance (the change in formal ownership of a few large enterprises does not essentially alter their relation to the State), . . . the bureaucratic structure of the large firm remains intact [and] half of the national product transits the public sector in one way or another (State, local governmental organizations, Social Security); . . . between half and two-thirds of the price of goods and services entering into the final national expenditure are in one way or another fixed, regulated, controlled, or influenced by State policy, and . . . the situation is irreversible (ten years of Thatcher and Reagan made no essential changes therein).[1]
Cornelius Castoriadis Continue reading “Overcoming the State by Reinventing the Polis”
Interview with Yavor Tarinski
Excerpts from an interview given at the end of May 2016 for an activist group from Freiburg (Germany), aired on radio dreyeckland and freie-radios. Continue reading “On Anti-Authority, Cooperation and Utopia”
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