PADKOS NO 106a dear CLP and padkos friends, During August, we rather nervously circulated some of our reflections on the experience of living through the Corona crisis here in South Africa. We were thrilled when that piece – In, against and beyond corona: What does the corona crisis in South Africa reveal to us? – was picked
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PADKOS NO 105 This short reflection was prompted in the first instance, by a couple of disturbing actions by elements of the state in CLP’s hometown of Pietermaritzburg. It seems terribly important to highlight them, and to expose them. But perhaps more deeply, we want to flag an ‘activist’ tendency to externalise ‘enemies’ rather than
PADKOS NO 104 “I always say the principle of direct action is the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.” “Communism already exists in our intimate relations with each other on a million different levels. So it’s a question of gradually expanding that and ultimately destroying the power of capital, rather than
PADKOS NO 103 In our last padkos edition (“in, against, beyond corona”), we said “it’s important to see what is revealed to be wrong and toxic – in ourselves, in our relations with others, and in our relation with the rest of non-human nature. But it’s also terribly important to listen for and to seek
PADKOS NO 102 One portion of this padkos serving is from us at CLP, and is part of our ongoing thinking in and through the midst of the corona crisis. There’s been quite a delay getting this piece out, and it still feels like a work-in-progress that might be updated and extended later too. It
PADKOS NO 101 Few people around the world have a better sense of how militants and activists are thinking and doing right now, than Firoze Manji. He’s been conducting an extraordinary series of interviews into how people are experiencing, thinking and organising “in the time of Covid-19”. Despite a punishing schedule, Firoze graciously agreed to
PADKOS NO 91 Thanks for all your participation and encouragement while we explored John Holloway’s book in the 1st part of 2019. We continue that journey through the rest of this year, getting to grips with some of the big themes & concepts underlying the material we looked at. To refresh and consolidate the thinking
PADKOS NO 92 Our focus on the work of John Holloway continues – and here’s the first of the promised thematic readings that we’ll discuss together. Timed for the run-up to the ‘global strike against the climate crisis’ planned for the 20th of September, your padkos reading focuses on John Holloway’s thinking about nature, politics and
PADKOS NO 95 Thanks to all of you who’ve been with us in various ways through this year’s menu of padkos. As 2019 draws to a close, we thought we’d share some thoughts and outputs emerging from our last gathering where we worked with “hope and creativity” as our Holloway focus. Rather than just staying
PADKOS NO 96 Padkos 2020 gets off to a cracking start as internationally-renowned Fanon-scholar, Nigel Gibson, returns to CLP on Monday, 2nd March! Nigel’s visit comes as a result of our ongoing collaboration with the Paulo Freire Project* with whom we’re co-hosting this discussion on Frantz Fanon and a ‘politics at a distance from the state’. Get yourselves to