Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism & Translation

15/08/2024

Poems 7-9 of Jazra Khaleed's "Revolving Doors" is now live on Ramparts (link in bio!). In this long-form cut-up, Khaleed draws on tweets, news reporting, and antifascist writing to put into relief the violence of borders in discourse and policy.
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This violence -- de-exceptionalized, rendered overall less visible by its everydayness, exacted slowly through "policy" -- exists on a continuum with recent anti-migrant violence taking place on the streets in the UK, despite apparent differences.
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More poems in the series forthcoming here, and more from Khaleed in October from

14/08/2024

A reminder that you can support our efforts to change gears into a project-based press (and get perks for doing so!) at the link below. We're incredibly grateful for the nearly $300 we've received in donations, and we're hoping to make it to our $1,000 goal by September! Please consider giving a donation (every little bit helps!) or sharing with your networks.

https://chuffed.org/project/barricades-next-chapter

Barricade is beginning an exciting new chapter: we are putting our annual print volume on pause to devote the whole of our labors to issues-based and thematic projects!
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With the ongoing genocide in Gaza and increasing fascistic actions from the highest levels of governments around the world, we are changing our model to be able to bring you more contemporary writing in translation and more new kinds of original wiritng addressed to the exigencies of our shared present.
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Barricade is an autonomous, volunteer-run collective, and we rely on you! Please consider donating to our Chuffed campaign.
https://chuffed.org/project/barricades-next-chapter

08/08/2024

Poems 4 - 6 of Jazra Khaleed' "Revolving Doors" is now live on Ramparts, Barricade's web forum. Follow the link in the bio to read more poems ~ and more about this multipart cut-up, excerpted from an anthology of Khaleed's work, THE LIGHT THAT BURNS US, forthcoming in October from

01/08/2024

Barricade is beginning an exciting new chapter: we are putting our annual print volume on pause to devote the whole of our labors to issues-based and thematic projects!
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With the ongoing genocide in Gaza and increasing fascistic actions from the highest levels of governments around the world, we are changing our model to be able to bring you more contemporary writing in translation and more new kinds of original wiritng addressed to the exigencies of our shared present.
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Barricade is an autonomous, volunteer-run collective, and we rely on you! Please consider donating to our Chuffed campaign.
https://chuffed.org/project/barricades-next-chapter

15/07/2024

Barricade is pleased to announce that Four Way Review‘s monthly special, featuring submissions originally published on Ramparts, has been released online! You can view it at the link below.

We’d like to thank everyone who submitted to our call and Four Way Review for collaborating with us. Watch this space in the coming days for more contributions to the series.

Submissions for our Solidarity with Palestine series will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis, with publication resuming in the fall. Send all submissions and inquiries to [email protected].

25/03/2024

We're excited to announce that we've partnered with Ugly Duckling Presse and Brooklyn Institute for Social Research for an evening of presentations and panel discussion! We hope to see you Wednesday, April 3rd, at BISR Central (68 Jay St #425 in Dumbo, Brooklyn), as we welcome the Leipzig/Vienna-based collective Transletting for a conversation about what it means to take translation as an artform unto itself.

With Walter Benjamin's landmark essay "Task of the Translator" and Sawako Nakayasu's Say Translation Is Art as a jumping off place, we'll ask: What does infidelity in translation entail—socially, politically, and in practice? What is the position of the translator in relation to the work to be translated, and in relation to other discourses and fields of activity? How does translation, taken as an autonomous mode of aesthetic production, bring into focus asymmetries in power and value and, then, undertake to redress them?

The event is free and open to the public; doors at 6:45pm. Please RSVP here: https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/events/occasional-evenings-translation-is-art-a-presentation-and-panel-discussion/

We look forward to seeing you there!

24/03/2024

ICYMI: Barricade and Four Way Review are honored to share the work of poet Olivia Elias, in English translation by Jérémy Victor Robert, as the first contribution in our Solidarity with Palestine series. As Robert writes, “In making room for the countless anonymous voices being crushed as we write, Olivia Elias builds them a home within her poems, a shrine facing the soothing sight of an acacia tree.”

Read the full post on Ramparts: https://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/four-poems-olivia-elias/

Barricade and Four Way continue to seek submissions of work by Palestinian authors or in solidarity with the Palestinian people. See the call for contributions here: https://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/in-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people-a-call-for-contributions/

08/03/2024

Now on Ramparts: We're excited to share the first contribution to our Solidarity with Palestine series, four poems by Olivia Elias translated from the French by Jérémy Victor Robert. As Robert writes, these poems "are in line with the author’s defense of the Palestinian people. Olivia Elias gives the floor to the victims of massacres, creating poems like graphic, musical collages where voices and genres collide."

Posted on February 29, 2024February 29, 2024 by G. Holleran @ BarricadeFour Poems by Olivia Elias, translated from the French by Jérémy Victor Robert Mobile users: Reading in landscape mode is recommended. DAY 21, WORDS ARE TOO POOR October 28, 2023 words are too poor but I have only them my only ...

14/02/2024

Hey everyone - reminder that our in-person launch party for issue #5 is happening on Friday (February 16) in Brooklyn! We'll have some contributors to the issue doing a poetry reading, and there will be a mini book fair you can browse in between dancing and socializing. Donations at the door will be collected for direct relief efforts in Gaza.

Big news! Barricade vol. 5, our special poetry issue, is now live! Go to barricadejournal.org to check it out! We hope that you enjoy reading it and will share it far and wide.

And if you'll be in New York on February 16, join us at 7pm at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research office in Dumbo for our release party! There will be music, drinks, a poetry reading, and a mini book fair (including print copies of our latest and past issues). Donations at the door will be collected for direct relief efforts in Gaza.

08/02/2024

In conjunction with the launch of our latest issue, we're announcing a call for contributions for a new series on Ramparts, our online forum. In collaboration with Four Way Review, we'd like to use our platform to feature works by Palestinian authors and/or that stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Works will be published immediately on Ramparts, and subsequently selected and compiled for a special issue of Four Way Review.

More details and information on how to submit here:

Posted on February 5, 2024February 5, 2024 by Grace HolleranIn Solidarity with the Palestinian People: A Call for Contributions More than three months into Israel’s latest escalation of a decades-long project of state-sponsored genocide of the Palestinian people, Gaza continues to face deadly bomb...

30/01/2024

Big news! Barricade vol. 5, our special poetry issue, is now live! Go to barricadejournal.org to check it out! We hope that you enjoy reading it and will share it far and wide.

And if you'll be in New York on February 16, join us at 7pm at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research office in Dumbo for our release party! There will be music, drinks, a poetry reading, and a mini book fair (including print copies of our latest and past issues). Donations at the door will be collected for direct relief efforts in Gaza.

11/11/2023

Hopscotch Reading Room has available for free download a collection of 'Poems from and for Palestine' -- https://linktr.ee/HopscotchReadingRoom

Please feel free to share widely! The poets included are all enthusiastic about the free distribution and circulation of this collection.

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26/10/2023

Now on Ramparts: "Urgent: News of the Death of Heba Abu Nada" by the Angolan poet João Melo: https://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/urgent-news-of-the-death-of-heba-abu-nada/

Hiba Abu Nada, a Palestinian novelist and poet, was killed by Israeli airstrikes in her home in Gaza on October 20. She was 32 years old.

Posted on October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 by Grace HolleranUrgent: News of the Death of Heba Abu Nada Note from the Editorial Collective Hiba Abu Nada, a Palestinian novelist and poet, and winner of the Sharjah Prize for her novel Oxygen is Not for the Dead, was killed by Israeli airstrikes at her....

03/08/2022

Renewing our Call for Translations!

Issue #5 of Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism & Translation will emphasize poetic voices raised in protest, from song lyrics to epic narrations, to aphorisms, to word art. While poetry will be our focus, we will still also consider prose submissions.

Deadline for the present call: October 15, 2022.

Click here for more: http://barricadejournal.org/uncategorized/call-for-submissions-issue-5/

Posted on March 3, 2022July 30, 2022 by Lauren K. WolfeCall for Submissions Issue #5 — Deadline Oct 15, 2022 Marionette control bar,with clipping path In 1910, women’s rights and labor activist Helen Todd declared that bread—“which is home, shelter, and security”—is just as necessary to ...

08/04/2022

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: APRIL 15

There's still a week to submit your translations of anti-fascist or anti-authoritarian materials for consideration for Barricade #5! As always, feel free to reach out to us with any questions.

30/03/2022

***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 15***

We're extending our deadline for submissions for issue #5 for another couple of weeks! See the below post for information and feel free to be in touch with any questions.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BARRICADE VOL. 5

While we always accept submissions on a rolling basis, we are currently soliciting materials to be published in our fifth issue. Send us your translations of anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist prose, poetry, theory, songs, manifestos, testimonials, jeremiads, and more poetry, from all times and places of resistance.

To be considered for Issue #5, please submit your translation and translator’s statement by April 1, 2022.

Please visit barricadejournal.org/submissions for further information and feel free to reach out with any questions!

(Thanks to for the fabulous illustration!)

04/03/2022

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BARRICADE VOL. 5

While we always accept submissions on a rolling basis, we are currently soliciting materials to be published in our fifth issue. Send us your translations of anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist prose, poetry, theory, songs, manifestos, testimonials, jeremiads, and more poetry, from all times and places of resistance.

To be considered for Issue #5, please submit your translation and translator’s statement by April 1, 2022.

Please visit barricadejournal.org/submissions for further information and feel free to reach out with any questions!

(Thanks to for the fabulous illustration!)

03/02/2022

The latest installment of Joe Keady's series on the "crucial and often overlooked" matter of language use and appropriation on the far and alt-right is live on Ramparts! This post looks particularly at the significance of pseudonyms taken on by movement leaders and participants.

http://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/unite-the-right-civil-trial-series/the-alt-right-name-game/ -3307

Posted on February 1, 2022February 1, 2022 by Joe Keady Alt-Right Name Game Given their fixation on a very particular conception of “tradition,” it should come as no surprise that participants in the alt-right and other closely related movements have regularly adopted language that...

27/01/2022

New on Ramparts: Joe Keady continues his analysis of the far right and alt-right's appropriation of language from different historical contexts. As he concludes, "White nationalism is defined in part by an urge to maintain strict boundaries between often arbitrarily defined populations, yet it is remarkably amenable to blurring linguistic lines. The exact parameters of acceptable borrowing are subject to change, but they frequently express a desire for continuity with historical movements and events that are deemed worthy. That gaze toward the past, in turn, says a lot about their ambitions for the future."

Read the full post here: http://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/unite-the-right-civil-trial-series/on-borrowed-language-and-historical-continuity-on-the-far-right/

Posted on January 25, 2022January 25, 2022 by Joe Keady Borrowed Language and Historical Continuity on the Far Right One moment from August 12, 2017 that was discussed repeatedly during the course of the Sines trial was the march by members of League of the South (LOS), the Traditionali...

19/01/2022

New on Ramparts! In the wake of Sines v. Kessler, Joe Keady is writing a series of posts reflecting on language use and issues that arose during the trial. In this first post, he examines how the alt-right's use of language borrowed from N**i Germany and the Crusades "helps shape a worldview in which eliminationist ambitions seem reasonable and even desirable to participants." Read it here: http://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/unite-the-right-civil-trial-series/the-sanctifying-language-of-the-alt-right/

Posted on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 by Joe Keady Sanctifying Language of the Alt-Right In November 2016, Richard Spencer’s public profile took on a new degree of notoriety when The Atlantic released video of a speech he gave at the annual conference of the National Policy Inst...

06/11/2021

In the latest post on Ramparts, Joe Keady continues his series on Sines v. Kessler, the civil suit against many of the organizers of the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally. In this installment, he describes how the trial is being used by defendants to rehabilitate their images with their fascist constituencies: http://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/sines-v-kessler-using-the-courtroom-as-a-public-platform/

Posted on November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 by Joe Keady v. Kessler: Using the Courtroom as a Public Platform [The following is part of an ongoing series about Sines v. Kessler, the civil suit against many of the main organizers of the August 2017 Unite the Right (UTR) rally in Charlo...

31/10/2021

Barricade stands in solidarity with protestors in Sudan against the coup 🇸🇩

(This page, Sudanese Translators for Change STC, has been posting frequent updates on protests in Sudan and across the world.)

30/10/2021

New on Ramparts: Joe Keady provides an update on jury selection in the civil trial being brought against participants of the "Unite the Right" rally of 2017 and discusses the limits of legal redress in combatting far-right ideology, as well as the perpetuation of myths about "antifa" from both sides of the trial:

http://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/jury-selection-in-the-unite-the-right-civil-trial-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and/ -3131

Posted on October 28, 2021October 27, 2021 by Joe Keady Selection in the Unite the Right Civil Trial and the Limits of Legal Action [The following is part of an ongoing series about Sines v. Kessler, the civil suit against many of the main organizers of the August 2017 Unite the Right...

27/10/2021

Be sure to check out the latest entry in our Antifascist Architecture series! Alhelí Harvey offers a fascinating and expansive reflection on the potential for antifascist architecture--which necessitates a reconsideration of how we think about architecture itself:

"When I think about most of our built world, I imagine suburbs, strip malls, satellite towns, shopping centers, financial districts, court houses, monuments, cemeteries and other locations that get chopped up into one movie montage. Buildings do not have political orientations in and of themselves, but they reflect what we do value. Design can only tell us so much: who is inside the building, as well as who has a relationship to the building, tells us much more about its orientation and about how that place shapes our relationship with our environments. "

http://barricadejournal.org/uncategorized/only-here-for-so-long-understanding-what-antifascist-architecture-could-mean/

Posted on October 20, 2021October 27, 2021 by Madeleine Collier here for so long: understanding what antifascist architecture could mean By Alhelí Harvey It’s a rainy morning in Austin, Texas. The kind of morning where the mugginess outside seems to creep in under the door, around ...

24/10/2021

A civil trial against some of the groups and individuals involved in the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, VA starts tomorrow, October 25. Barricade collective member Joe Keady has written up an incredibly detailed and informative guide to the parties involved for Ramparts and plans to post regular updates as the trial continues: http://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/notes-on-the-upcoming-unite-the-right-civil-trial-a-guide-to-whos-involved-and-why-it-still-matters/

Posted on October 18, 2021October 20, 2021 by Joe Keady on the Upcoming “Unite the Right” Civil Trial: A Guide to Who’s Involved and Why It Still Matters It’s been over four years since the Unite the Right (UTR) rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11-12, 2017. Since ...

24/09/2021

Hot off the presses! Barricade Volume 4 is live, and you can now go and read in full Smaran Dayal’s translation of M.P.T. Acharya’s “Militarism in Asia”!

http://barricadejournal.org/issue-4/militarism-in-asia/

22/09/2021

Volume 4 is LIVE online!! We are infinitely grateful to each of our supporters who donated to our Chuffed fundraiser, as well as all of our contributors, collective members, and readers! We couldn’t have done it without you!!

Check it out now at http://barricadejournal.org/

19/09/2021

Barricade Volume 3 & 4 is about to drop! Coming to you digitally on September 22nd with physical copies close behind!

It’s been a long time coming but we’re so thrilled to be sharing two years of hard work with you.

02/09/2021

Contribute to Ramparts for our newest series: “Antifascist Architectures”! Send us your writing & translations, text & media, which engage the spatial aspect of resistance from the micro-level of design to large-scale configurations of transnational solidarity.

For more info, check out the call for submissions:
http://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/architectures-antifascism/antifascist-architectures-call-for-submissions/

24/08/2021

📣 Announcing the latest on Ramparts!! We’re kicking off a new series on Antifascist Architectures with Madeleine Collier’s translation of “The Snail of the End and the Beginning.”

Read Collier’s piece here: http://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/architectures-antifascism/the-snail-of-the-end-and-the-beginning/

And then send us your writing & translations about physical structures of resistance, digital landscapes, and spatial metaphors for organization! http://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/architectures-antifascism/antifascist-architectures-call-for-submissions/