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"Cuando los soldados irrumpieron con sus rifles en alto, el aire ya estaba cargado de alcohol y risas forzadas. No estab...
09/27/2025

"Cuando los soldados irrumpieron con sus rifles en alto, el aire ya estaba cargado de alcohol y risas forzadas. No estaban irrumpiendo en una reunión secreta, sino en un planificado jolgorio, tal como el camarada se lo había propuesto el camarada. Y, al menos por esa noche, la prisión no apestó sino a coñac: sus rejas se cerraron sobre aquel a quien habían venido a buscar, mientras los demás se escabullían ilesos, su libertad comprada con vapores e ironía.

"Más tarde, en la prisión central de Ramala, el oficial de inteligencia israelí esperaría a que llegara el momento. Les gritaría a los soldados, por supuesto que les gritaría, por ser unos imbéciles, todos unos imbéciles, que no habían seguido las instrucciones, que no habían comprendido el más mínimo detalle de lo que se les había pedido hacer. La ira del oficial llenaba el pasillo, su voz rebotaba contra los muros de piedra.

"Y me pregunto si Abu Mazen todavía la escucha, la voz, no la suya, sino la autoridad rompiéndose contra sí misma. La confusión de los soldados que había hecho que algunos escaparan; la ira del oficial de inteligencia, negándose a liberarlos. ¿Seguirá resonando esa voz bajo las cortinas, las banderas presidenciales que se afanan por borrar la piedra? La prisión, rebautizada palacio, no puede remodelarse tan fácilmente. Lleva consigo residuos: gritos almacenados en sus paredes, puertas cerradas de golpe en la memoria, botas de firmes pisadas en las escaleras... archivo que ningún título es capaz de borrar.

"Pero es ese también el peligro, el atractivo mortal, de las pequeñas victorias: hacen que las grandes victorias parezcan posibles. Y, sin embargo, cuando resistimos, siempre queda ese residuo: fragmentos dispersos de triunfo, frágiles y fugaces, pero innegables. Engaños, astucia, pequeños sabotajes como gestos de guerrilla. Escombros de relatos que se deslizan en la memoria, alzados como trofeos en susurros, en bromas, en la risa repentina que estalla incluso bajo la sombra de un nuevo asentamiento y otro mártir."

Abdaljawad Omar. «La casa y la bestia»

Lo inquietante no es lo familiar que se ha vuelto extraño, sino la imposibilidad de distinguirlos.

"There is a yearning for intellectual life on the right, something I know well from the Italian far right of the 1970s, ...
09/26/2025

"There is a yearning for intellectual life on the right, something I know well from the Italian far right of the 1970s, around CasaPound, always awash in magazines, colloquia, reading groups, the walls adorned with photos of Gottfried Benn, Ernst Jünger, Giovanni Gentile, Gabriele D’Annunzio, and all that. Yet within this galaxy, it is hard to find anything organic. And there is a danger of focusing too much on Bannon’s reading habits. In practice, much of the intellectual substance of Trumpism comes from a much duller, more technical production with the gray, anonymous work of think tanks. If you read Project 2025, especially the legal sections, you see a deep technical intellectuality, peculiar to the US, but saturated with political imaginaries — Christian, nationalist, identitarian, homophobic, misogynist. This is the backbone that holds together the flashier elements. The 'Great Replacement' ideology of 1990s Europe, for example, resonates in the US only because it intersects with 150 years of anti-immigrant law and practice, going back to the exclusion of Chinese workers. It is already inscribed in the constitutional and legal architecture of the US. That deeper infrastructure is what enables the new elements to take hold."

— Alberto Toscano, "Become who you are … against fascism"

https://communispress.com/become-who-you-are-against-fascism/

"Become who you are … against fascism,” an interview with Alberto Toscano by Pablo Elorduy, appeared first in Spanish on El Salto on 24 August 2025, and was later republished on Communis. It is now presented for the first time in English translation.

Become what the far right imagines you to be, realize their imaginary enemy.

"Freedom for Marx, Freedom for Us," by Jodi Dean, first instalment of Dean's series of six considerations "Materialities...
09/24/2025

"Freedom for Marx, Freedom for Us," by Jodi Dean, first instalment of Dean's series of six considerations "Materialities of Communist Freedom," is now availablee in Spanish translation on the site of Verso Libros, as part of the ongoing collaborative partnership between the two publishers.

https://versolibros.com/blogs/news/libertad-para-marx-libertad-para-nosotros

The Spanish translation of Comrade, by Jodi Dean, was released last February in a coedition Verso Libros-Communis and can be purchased on https://versolibros.com/products/camarada-ensayo-sobre-la-pertenencia-politica.

«Libertad para Marx, libertad para nosotros» es la primera de seis reflexiones sobre la libertad elaboradas desde la perspectiva del comunismo mundial. Inicialmente presentadas en la European Graduate School (EGS) en agosto de 2025, estas consideraciones —que con esta ocasión se hacen públicas...

"Freedom for Marx, Freedom for Us," by Jodi Dean, first instalment of Dean's series of six considerations "Materialities...
09/24/2025

"Freedom for Marx, Freedom for Us," by Jodi Dean, first instalment of Dean's series of six considerations "Materialities of Communist Freedom," is now availablee in Spanish translation also on Revista Jacobin, as part of the ongoing collaborative partnership between the two media outlets.

El carácter fortuito de las condiciones de vida surge con la burguesía. Ahora las personas parecen más libres, pero en realidad están más sometidas a la contingencia, la arbitrariedad y la violencia. Libertad es hoy la forma aparente de nuestra falta de libertad.

“When the soldiers burst in, rifles raised, the air was already thick with alcohol and forced laughter. What they entere...
09/23/2025

“When the soldiers burst in, rifles raised, the air was already thick with alcohol and forced laughter. What they entered was not a clandestine meeting, but a staged revelry. And for that night, at least, prison reeked only of cognac: its bars closing on the one they came for, while the others slipped away untouched, their freedom bought in fumes and irony.

""Later, at the central prison in Ramallah, the Israeli intelligence officer would scream at the soldiers, because they were fools. They had not followed instructions, had not grasped the smallest detail of what was demanded of them. His rage filled the corridor, his voice ricocheting against the stone walls.

And I ask whether Abu Mazen still hears it—the voice, not his own, but authority breaking against itself. The soldiers’ confusion, letting some slip away; the intelligence officer’s rage, refusing release. Does it still reverberate beneath the present drapery, the presidential banners straining to overwrite stone? The prison, renamed a palace, cannot be remade so easily. It carries residues: cries stored in its walls, doors slammed into memory, boots pounding the stairs upward—an archive no title can erase.”

— Abdaljawad Omar, “The Homely and the Beast,” an original piece for Communis.

Quite homely, intensely homely. It suffocates you …

With Marx now being interpreted as a “republican,” the dominant ideology continues to prevail, as if Marx could be explo...
09/23/2025

With Marx now being interpreted as a “republican,” the dominant ideology continues to prevail, as if Marx could be exploited in a new round of anti-communism.

— Jodi Dean, “Freedom for Marx, Freedom for Us,” now in Spanish translation on Communis, Jacobin América Latina and Verso Libros.

Libertad es hoy la forma aparente de nuestra falta de libertad.

“Nature, equally produced as everything else but appearing as virgin and authentic, is the ultimate fe**sh: it masks the...
09/21/2025

“Nature, equally produced as everything else but appearing as virgin and authentic, is the ultimate fe**sh: it masks the desert in which we live. Nature has never been more alive. It lives today in the community, in the family, in the nation, in the land as dreamed of by the nouveau right. It lives because it is impossible. Nothing is more alive than a specter. Nothing is more alive than a specter turned into hologram. Nothing is more alive than the artificial paradises of cottagecore on social media and postmodern ‘traditional’ families and nations. This is the lifeblood of the nouveau right and therein resides its power.”

Clara Ramas San Miguel, “Capital and Paradise: The Invention of Nature by the Nouveau Right,” Crisis and Critique, “The Nouveau Right” (Volume 11/Issue 1, 16 July 2024).

https://communispress.com/capital-y-paraiso/

Now reposted on Communis.

Nada hay que esté más vivo que un espectro convertido en holograma.

“World communism as a perspective doesn’t privilege Marx but considers instead the speeches and writings of revolutionar...
09/15/2025

“World communism as a perspective doesn’t privilege Marx but considers instead the speeches and writings of revolutionaries inspired by Marx. Few if any of them poured over his every statement trying to make sure that they understood every last subtlety of his thought. Few if any made tracing the development of his ideas their primary goal. They took Marx as a critical guide for thinking and action in the struggle for liberation […] One might think it’s eclectic to bring together writings from Hungary, Peru, Bolivia, Palestine, Burkina Faso, the USSR, and so on rather than situate them specifically by culture and period […] My wager is that this blending gives us insight into communist freedom as it has been worked out by the party of communists over time and in struggle. I don’t simply take the perspective of world communism; I construct it.”

— Jodi Dean, “Freedom for Marx, Freedom for Us,” first instalment of “Materialities of Communist Freedom,” a series of reflections by Jodi Dean for Communis.

Freedom is how our non-freedom appears.

“We have normalized what should never have entered the archive. We have done it, and done it well. But everything crashe...
09/13/2025

“We have normalized what should never have entered the archive. We have done it, and done it well. But everything crashes in that unguarded instant when you find yourself alone on a train—Amsterdam to Utrecht—and the leaking begins. Oh my fu***ng god: there is a world without checkpoints. A world without locked doors. A world where the sea is simply visible, where all that is required is the mustering of your body, nothing more. Of course, leaking occurs without other men, especially Arab men. And yet there it is—leaking on a train like a child who has just discovered what death is.”

https://communispress.com/water-without-name/

— Abdaljawad Omar, "Water without name," an original piece for Communis. Also in Spanish translation.

Naming the leaking is always belated

“Let us vanish at once, then—so that the Arabs who cannot stand us, who confess to hating us, may at last be relieved of...
09/09/2025

“Let us vanish at once, then—so that the Arabs who cannot stand us, who confess to hating us, may at last be relieved of the headache, the stubborn residue we have become. So they can party with Israelis, dance in the heavens of normalization, free of our insistent demand. Let us vanish at once, so that the World […] need not confront its truth, need not be dragged into the awkwardness of listening to the unbearable syllables we carry. So that Germany may rest assured: its underwriting of yet another genocide is not cruelty but courtesy, a favor granted to a people who themselves whispered: do it quickly, dispatch us without installments […] Yet it hovers, persistent, the fantasy of vanishing together rather than alone, or one by one.”

https://communispress.com/death-has-died-in-gaza/

— Abdaljawad Omar, "Death has died in Gaza," an original piece for Communis. Also in Spanish translation.

What you call the end, we are already enduring.

"Principles aside, in practice it’s been obvious all along that no Israeli leaders have ever accepted the most rudimenta...
09/06/2025

"Principles aside, in practice it’s been obvious all along that no Israeli leaders have ever accepted the most rudimentary premise of a genuinely two-state solution, namely the idea that 'the two states would be equal.' It’s equally obvious that successive Israeli governments have deliberately and 'systematically destroyed the basis for a viable Palestinian state, not least by besieging Gaza, by annexing Jerusalem and by settling large parts of the West Bank. Any more talk of two states is not only a distracting waste of time, it’s also a deflection from the real question confronting the international community – whether an illegitimate apartheid state should be allowed to operate in its present configuration.”

— Peter Hallward, “Disarm Israel”

https://communispress.com/desarmar-a-israel/

Originally published on Verso's blog, and now in Spanish translation for Verso Libros and Communis.

Que Israel esté aniquilando a Gaza con nuestro apoyo es el hecho que define nuestra época.

“The Democratic Party has been a pro-capitalist force from its very beginnings. It is funded and controlled by capitalis...
09/04/2025

“The Democratic Party has been a pro-capitalist force from its very beginnings. It is funded and controlled by capitalist millionaires and billionaires, in conjunction with a network of relatively corrupt political machines and a substantial bureaucratic organizational apparatus. It is — absolutely and without question — an enemy of socialism. What is the logic of American democratic socialists refusing to make a clean break from this capitalist party?”

— Paul Le Blanc, "Is this the moment for DSA?"

Now on simultaneous release on LINKS and Communis.

Rashida Tlaib is right: This is our moment .

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