The following pamphlet, without title or authors, was illicitly printed and circulated by the Jewish Labor Bund in 1906. The pamphlet features two agitational texts: “Sparkism”, followed by “Fantasy and Reality”. These fighting words, likely passed around by militants across neighborhoods and shop-floors, advance a critique of the newspaper Iskra [spark] and the still emerging strategic vision of Lenin and what would later appear as the Bolshevik party.
Translated and introduced by Dabartis with an afterword by the Prog Goles, Burn Your Books not only offers a significant historical vantage on past cycles of revolutionary organizing, but also functions to agitate in the present—prompting critical questions on contemporary organizational strategy.
A RESPONSE BY A CONSCIOUS
(NON-NOMADIC) PARIAH
Connecting Ghassan Kanafani’s reflections on Palestinian existence as a dwelling in “a world not ours” to Battaile’s political vision of “brining down into the world” the rigid, transcendent, forms of life reproduced by sovereignty1; Abdaljawad Omar’s thinking critically draws from a tradition of pariah politics—a politics lived at the cross-roads of exile, abjection, emplacement and revolt. Confronting Arendt’s crippling injunction for the pariah to sacrifice its belongings to the resistance in order to “appear” in the sanctified realm of a common worldliness; Omar’s letter for Dabartis is an appeal to stand with a movement that defies commensuration through the boundless affects of love, hatred, and militant action.
The letter, written July 2025, has since been translated into Spanish by Communis Press2, as well as being made into a print edition in Athens, February 2026. The graphic is inspired by Zakaria Zubeidi’s reversal of the popular allegory of Saint George and the dragon.3 As a fugitive in Palestine, Zubeidi identifies with the pariah dragon over the magisterial, virtuous, authority of George. The print edition also includes Arendt’s letter to Baldwin, which in part prompted Omar’s thinking here.
The Unavowable Holocaust responds to a short fragment written by Giorgio Agamben entitled The End of Judaism. It fiercly charts what may be at stake in confronting the planetary scope of the Palestinian Nakba yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Despite the tenacious imperative of Empire to render the Nakba and all other genocides carried out in its interest as unavowable holocausts, “what is being revealed today”, the Coalition contends, “is precisely where Nakba, Holocaust and Shoah collide, where they become interchangeable and interwoven.”
At stake here, the Coalition assures us, is not only a truth procedure directed toward the ongoing holocaust of/as modernity, but also and critically a struggle for the vowability of all those forms of life that resisted the fascist, imperialistic, genocidal, supremacist, logic of modernity in its various guises.
Could exilic politics be a ground work for making this vowability into a common political grammar for anyone who declares their unbelonging to the catastrophic trajectory of the planatery holocaust raging before us?
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