"In #Gaza all of us are being told: Look, this can be done, because the law no longer exists. today, the law is the power of death, and whoever has that power is the law. That is why I say that we are all Palestine." Our #interview with Rita Segato: irgac.org/articles/rit... @boerriesn.bsky.social

From the 1980s Sex Wars to today's Gender Wars: #MoralPanics bind communities to conservative elites, promising safety at the cost of autonomy. What happens when the most vulnerable are forced to trade freedom for imposed protection? irgac.org/articles/gen...

Wichtiger Text von Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World; The Choice of Civil War, mit Christian Laval) über den Zusammenhang von neoliberaler Entrechtung von Arbeiter*innen und faschistischer Gewaltausübung. (Engl.)

"Today's right-wing violence is not conservative, but a systematic offensive to erase decades of social gains." We spoke with Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society) about governmentality, counter-revolution, the state and antifascist struggle. irgac.org/articles/pie...

"Far-right movements have emerged as new interlocutors for adolescents unwilling to accept the passivity offered by late neoliberalism. They promise quick exits from poverty and suffering, specifically to young men." Paülah Shabel on #money, #youth and the far-right: irgac.org/articles/pos...

Frankfurt, save the date: Am 25/26.4. veranstalten wir im offeneshaus.bsky.social ein Symposium zu den neuen autoritären Verhältnissen weltweit. Es gibt zwei Tage lang Vorträge, Diskussionen und Workshops. Alle Infos und Anmeldung via: transnationale-demokratie.de/symposium-de...

Hallo Berlin, Sonntag schon was vor? 📍 30.03. | 11-14 Uhr | Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung | Straße der Pariser Kommune 8a 1/6

Starting #today we are showing our shop window exhibition on anti-authoritarian strategies #BeyondMolotovs at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social in Berlin! Proud to be part of the #GoodNightFarRight conference happening this weekend! @kol-orangotango.bsky.social

#Fascism successfully channels fears and anxieties towards social Darwinist fantasies. Politics of #care stands as a defiant response to that - as survival, resistance, imagination. @ffarvardin.bsky.social and Gustavo Robles on the subversive and creative potential of care: irgac.org/articles/fro...

"In rasantem Tempo wird die Welt undemokratischer, ungleicher, rauer und weniger rechtsstaatlich." Im neuen Südlink 211 über "Die autoritäre Gefahr" analysiert @boerriesn.bsky.social die neue "Zeit der Monster" und mögliche Gegenstrategien: www.inkota.de/news/die-hof...

We demand that universities resist pressure from biased press and politicians & defend university, freedom of opinion & academic freedom of staff and students! --> Statement re: cancellation of Eyal Weizman @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @franceskalbs.bsky.social www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...

After two weeks of struggle and wildcat strikes in #Turkey, the leader of Birtek-Sen (Textile Workers’ Union), Mehmet Türkmen, was detained and arrested. We interviewed him recently: irgac.org/articles/we-... #FreeMehmetTürkmenNow #BirtekSen

Read our February newsletter: Learn about music and counterculture in #Palestine & the world | Get your copy of our 100% free and infinitely reproductible #antifascist exhibition | Read on South-South Justice | and more! open.substack.com/pub/irgac/p/...

Why do new forms of authoritarianism emerge simultaneously all around the world? We discussed with @gambettiz.bsky.social, @hfanton.bsky.social, Alex Demirovic and @boerriesn.bsky.social during our "Contesting Authoritarianism" Conference. Watch this and other discussions irgac.org/articles/con...

" ... to fight an insurrection, you need another insurrection. It is not by placing the left as the party of the order that we will stop this process." Read our interview with @vladimirsafatle.bsky.social - we did it a while ago, but it is as fresh and urgent as ever. irgac.org/articles/bra...

Resentment and rage are often seen as undesirable for politics, producing anger, hatred, and desire for revenge. But rage can also lead to revolutionary practices. Where do anger, rage & resentment come from? What makes them different? How are they channeled politically? irgac.org/articles/res...

"Unlike politics, #art doesn’t try to fix or calibrate the machine. It does something more subversive and unsettling: it shows the possibility of another world." (Sup Insurgente Galeano) >Read our contribution on the role of art for Zapatista resistance, #BeyondMolotovs: tvl.ink/beyond-molot...

We are presenting our book and exhibition #BeyondMolotovs on strategies against authoritarianism in Lisboa, together with Criar Cidade & Jornal Mapa. Don't miss it. Casado Comun, January 31

@boerriesn.bsky.social talked with our colleagues at @unipotsdam.bsky.social about the authoritarian transformation and counterstrategies, and our current and upcoming work (in German only).

Kippt die Welt nach rechts? Das Wissenschaftskolleg IRGAC („International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies“ - @irgac-rls.bsky.social) erforscht – seit Januar 2025 an der Uni Potsdam – den #Autoritarismus und Strategien dagegen: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachricht...

“I think for Israel the Gaza Strip was always the ‘Id’ or ‘Es’ as Freud calls it. This is the place where everything is allowed.” (Iris Hefets, psychoanalyst) 🎧 New podcast episode “The Psychic Life of Authoritarianism’’, with Iris and @leninology.bsky.social thisauthoritarianlife.buzzsprout.com

We are now on #substack! Visit the IRGAC Newsletter ans subscribe to get all our latest news, articles, podcasts & more: irgac.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Revolutions surprise and overwhelm. Sociology is quick to domesticate these moments with conceptual rationality. How can we understand Iran's #Woman-Life-Freedom movement without domesticating it? Read our by Ebrahim Towfigh and Seyed Mehdi Yousefi. irgac.org/articles/why...

"Why do people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation?" See our new #CfA for 6 #Postdoc Fellowships of 33 months at University of Potsdam and become part of IRGAC! We're looking for research on why and how people support authoritarian politics: irgac.org/calls/call-f...

We are starting this 2025 with some great news: from now on IRGAC is a research group at University of Potsdam, in cooperation with @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social; + next week we'll publish a new #CfA for 6 #postdoc fellowships for 2,5 ys to study #authoritarianism, so stay tuned!

OUT NOW 🎧 Check out the third episode of This Authoritarian Life, “Veiling and Unveiling: Everyday Gender Struggles in Iran (Origins)’’, with Firoozeh Farvardin and Yasaman Pishvaei. Brought to you with the support of IRGAC

Seminario Universitario de la Modernidad: Versiones y Dimensiones (SUM), in collaboration with IRGAC, invite to the International Colloquium: "Autoritarismo, Estrategias Anti-autoritarias y Nuevos Horizontes Utópicos" on November 28th, at UNAM, Mexico

In the last year of war in #Gaza, #watermelons have become a ubiquitous symbol of solidarity with #Palestinians. To find out more about the origin of the symbol, we spoke to Palestinian artist and writer Khaled Hourani. Hourani is also part of our book Beyond Molotovs www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

OUT NOW 🎧 This Authoritarian Life is a podcast that explores everyday human stories in order to better understand modern-day authoritarian politics. Listen anywhere where podcasts are available. Brought to you with the support of IRGAC irgac.org/articles/new...

"The book gathers imaginative experiences of struggle, allowing readers to travel the planet looking at how people carry out coordinated but also spontaneous actions in diverse geographies" - Check out this fresh review about our book Beyond Molotovs! www.ppesydney.net/beyond-molot...

In this article Hugo Fanton analyzes, from the largest favela in São Paulo, the dynamics of political territorial disputes - the active participation of business forces aligned around the defense of market principles, conflicting with social movements irgac.org/articles/sao... #Brazil

It feels, at times, as if the walls are closing in on us: impending crisis or impending doom, few possible pathways seem to exist, most of them have hidden traps, and none appear sufficient to escape it. How to make sense of this scenario? irgac.org/articles/ref...

"Even though in the Second World War every fourth citizen of Belarus was killed, our sites of memory are not numerous. Historical traumas have to battle for a place under the sun of memory" writes Belarusian essayist Olga Bubich irgac.org/articles/mem...

How can we counter authoritarianism? This publication brings together more than 50 accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuous dimension of their strategies: transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...

As Milei's government approaches a year in office, important changes that were not foreseen a few months ago seem to be signaling the end of the honeymoon. And the Argentine political scene may once again show its traditional vivacity irgac.org/articles/mil... #argentina #milei

Read, interact, learn and have fun with this awesome interactive article created by Pia Monroy Rodriguez based on the book “Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies" for L!NX, the @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social new digital learning platform linx.rosalux.de/en/authorita...

Constant surveillance, unjustified suspensions, the anonymization of the relationship with the employer, all reveal that the authoritarian face of neoliberalism also has its microphysical expression in the world of work - A new article by Gustavo Robles irgac.org/articles/the...

“Protest for Production”: Fighting the Ethnic Authoritarian Model of Governance in Postwar #Bosnia and #Herzegovina - a new article by Damir Arsenijević irgac.org/articles/pro...

In #SouthAfrica illegal miners, colloquially known as the zama zamas risk their lives foraging for leftover minerals, notably gold, in some of the world’s deepest mineshafts - new article by @KenmanKenman07 irgac.org/articles/aut... #SouthSouth

Precarious conditions of social existence, gender-based violence, inequality, and systemic violations of human rights prevail in the strategic economic zone of southeastern #Puebla #Mexico - new article by Edith González Cruz irgac.org/articles/rec... #SouthSouth

Summer 2023 saw record-breaking temperatures, affirming the alarming trend of global warming. At the same time, Latin American communities mobilized against extractivism and for environmental protection, exemplified by the #SíalYasuní campaign in Ecuador irgac.org/articles/ref...

In this article, @borries.bsky.social and Jan-David Echterhoff reflect on five years of work of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies irgac.org/articles/see...

This paper attempts to decipher and make sense of renewed and seemingly strengthened #Africa - #Russia relations at a time when the world’s geopolitics, geoeconomics, and geostrategic imperatives are undergoing unprecedented structural ruptures irgac.org/articles/thu...

Although Putin justified his so-called “special military operation” with talk of “denazification” and invoked the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, the goals he is pursuing in Ukraine line up quite well with those of Russia’s most reactionary nationalists irgac.org/articles/mak...

"Even though in the Second World War every fourth citizen of Belarus was killed, our sites of memory are not numerous. Last century, our ancestors had to face not two but three wars, but in my homeland most are now silent — or silenced" writes Olga Bubich irgac.org/articles/mem...

This paper attempts to decipher and make sense of renewed and seemingly strengthened Africa-Russia relations amidst unprecedented tectonic shifts in geopolitics, geoeconomics, and geostrategic imperatives. irgac.org/articles/thu... #AfricaRussia #geopolitics

Can we still think of #feminism as a liberatory collective movement against the status quo and the multiple regimes of oppression? A movement that will not be constrained to the realm of identity politics and individualization? irgac.org/articles/the...

Thucydides' trap and the renewal of the #Africa-#Russia relations in the face of global geopolitical shockwaves - new article by Alexander Tushkin and Kennedy Manduna irgac.org/articles/thu...