Tag Archives: insurrection

Roundabouts, Against Solitude

Remembering and resisting the erasure of the rebellion of the Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests with a piece published with lundi matin (#400, 24/10/2024) and with an excellent documentary film dedicated to the same, entitled Les Magnifiques Sauvages (in french). November 17 … Continue reading

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Learning from the Flames

Reflections on the June 2023 revolt in France, from the CrimethInc. collective (09/08/2023) … On June 2023, in the city of Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, police brutally murdered a teenager named Nahel Merzouk, continuing a pattern of post-colonial violence … Continue reading

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Santiago López Petit: The violence of the force of pain

Reflections on the French police murder of Nahel Merzouk and the country’s July riots, by Santiago López Petit. (Lobo Suelto! 11/07/2023) Nahel’s mother, surrounded by her son’s friends, makes a motorcycle engine roar. Her son, murdered by a police officer, … Continue reading

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In praise of riots

With rebellion, awareness is born. Albert Camus, The Rebel Constitutively out of step with the present, the revolt is an impatient epiphany of the future that comes after tomorrow. Donatella Di Cesare, The Time of Revolt French politicians – the president, … Continue reading

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Justice for Nahel

From the CrimethInc. collective (02/07/2023) … The Roots of the Uprising in France The following text was sent to us by French comrades on the third day of unrest following the murder of the teenager Nahel Merzouk by French police … Continue reading

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Remembering Brazil’s Days of Struggle (2013)

A reflection on Brazil‘s 2013 popular uprising from the CAB (Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira/Brazilian Anarchist Coordination) … Defending 2013 as an experience of popular struggle! (CAB 22/06/2023) Marking 10 years since the 2013 Days of Struggle, part of the forces of … Continue reading

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International Call for Support for Soulèvements de la terre

From lundimatin #389 (26/06/2023) … We receive and transmit this international call to carry out solidarity actions all over the world against the criminalisation of Soulèvements de la Terre. Translated into seven languages [we share the English language call below] … Continue reading

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Remembering the Stonewall riots of 1969

… if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves (compare Rep.), they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all … Continue reading

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France: The desire for revolution

Every revolution begins when Society has outgrown the view of life on which the existing forms of social life were founded, when the contradictions between life such as it is, and life as it should be, and might be, become … Continue reading

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France: The Movement against the Pension Reform

From the CrimethInc. collective (22/03/2023) … France: The Movement against the Pension Reform – On the Threshold of an Uprising? In France, a new surge of protest activity has erupted against the government of Emmanuel Macron in response to an … Continue reading

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