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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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The police murder: justice and truth for Nahel and all the victims

Statement from France’s Union communiste libertaire, 28th of June, 2023 … On the night of June 27 to 28, revolts began in the city of Nanterre to denounce a new murder by a policeman. His name was Nahel, he was … Continue reading

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Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen: Class Struggle in What Society?

From Ill Will (17/12/2024). 1. Any analysis of the re-election of Trump must depart from the George Floyd revolt, which remains the most important “political,” or rather anti-political, event in recent American history. In Minneapolis and other cities in 2020, … Continue reading

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Kristin Ross: A Common Horizon for Situated Struggles

The great social measure of the Commune was its own working existence. Karl Marx, The Civil War in France The French people seem to have understood this need wonderfully well, and the something new, which was introduced into the life … Continue reading

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France: For an anti-fascist uprising

From the Soulèvements de la terre, in France … 1 – The neo-fascist danger is real All over Europe and the world, neo-fascist parties are seizing power. Everywhere in society their xenophobic and authoritarian ideas are spreading. However, there is … Continue reading

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France and the farmer’s uprising: Conflicts of worlds

… when just as we came to the top of a rising ground, down a long glade of the wood on my right I caught sight of a stately building whose outline was familiar to me, and I cried out, … 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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France: Let there be order

… power is not defined only by its capacity to be obeyed but, first of all, by its capacity to give orders and commandments, even if those orders are not totally obeyed. A power does not fall when it is … Continue reading

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Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The ashes of the Republic

Reflections on the French police murder of Nahel Merzouk and the country’s July riots, by Rodrigo Karmy Bolton. (Lobo Suelto! 11/07/2023) What does it mean when France burns under barricades? Perhaps, that not only France but also the Republic, as … 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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