Recently, the Republican Party of Texas released a brand new platform stating that “Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto” and calls “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert…

Oleh: Darian Worden. Teks aslinya berjudul “Autonomy Versus Secession” Diterjemahkan oleh Iman Amirullah. Catatan penerjemah: Wacana pemisahan atau secession yang menjadi topik utama dalam pembahasan artikel ini merupakan upaya pemisahan Amerika Serikat menjadi dua negara, yaitu Utara dan Selatan yang banyak diorganisir oleh para sayap kanan dan neo nazi Amerika Serikat. Sehingga pemisahan yang dimaksudkan…

Interview of Dr. Chris Hables Gray by Hank Pellissier Should California, Scotland, Catalonia, Hawaii, Kurdistan and other regions secede for independence? Should today’s 193 nations divide into 1,600? “Yes (sort of),” says Chris Hables Gray, a “pragmatic anarchist feminist revolutionary” who works as a lecturer of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz….

Di Darian Worden. Originale pubblicato l’undici maggio 2020 con il titolo Autonomy Versus Secession. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Sono anni che negli Stati Uniti si parla di secessione o della frammentazione del paese in nazioni più piccole. L’argomento riprende vigore mentre gli Stati Uniti fanno accordi regionali per gestire la ripresa dopo il covid-19 e…

There have long been people in the United States talking about secession or splitting the country into smaller nations. These kinds of discussions seem to be happening more as US states make regional agreements to manage Covid-19 recovery and right wingers fantasize about civil war. Creating smaller American nations will not liberate the people on…

Eugene W. Holland. Nomad Citizenship: Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Holland’s work is in the same general autonomist tradition of analysis as Dyer-Witheford’s Cyber-Marx, and the concept of “Exodus” as developed in Negri’s and Hardt’s Commonwealth. The general idea of Exodus is that, when technology…

Is Brexit a move toward British independence? Some Leave and Remain partisans may believe so, differing only over whether that’s good or bad. But, as usual, things are more complicated. We should hope that, in one respect, Britain’s exit from the EU will create a kind of dependence that did not exist while it was…

Sheldon Richman discusses why Chris Kyle is not a hero. Michael Brendan Dougherty discusses Hilary and Libya. Michael Dickinson discusses Winston Churchill. Arthur Silber discusses the American Sniper movie and Chris Kyle. Elizabeth Nolan Brown discusses libertarian feminism as an alternative to carceral feminism. Medea Benjamin discusses why Cuba should be taken off the terrorist…