Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

The highest expression of the organisation. Origin and development of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI)

Julián Vadillo Muñoz From Redes Libertarias no. 5 (Spring 2026)/on line 11/06/2026 With a PhD in History from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Julián Vadillo Muñoz is a secondary school teacher and a professor of contemporary history at the … Continue reading

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Indigenous direct action

The Indigenous Struggles in Brazil (video) From lundimatin #525 (23/06/2026) The worsening crises threatening the world have left many people paralysed and powerless in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. But among Indigenous peoples, many groups are leading the way: … Continue reading

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The transatlantic war on freedom

From Freedom News (29/06/2026) Moving a box of zines can now get you 30 years in Trump’s America, echoing the UK’s crackdown on protest punkacademic On Tuesday, while England played Ghana in the World Cup, down in Texas nine people each … Continue reading

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Victory for Prosfygika!

From Freedom News (27/06/2026) Historical Athens squatting community saved from redevelopment after hunger strikes and popular campaign Gabriel Fonten The Prosfygika squatted community in Athens has declared victory in its struggle against redevelopment, publishing a statement on 25 June titled … Continue reading

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Alexander Berkman on prisons and abolition

From Freedom News (28/06/2026) His arguments are no less salient in the face of contemporary threats Søren Hough We often think of Alexander Berkman as one of the preeminent anarchist communist thinkers of his time. After all, he did write Now and … Continue reading

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Remembering Alexander Berkman

From Freedom News (28/06/2026) 90 years since the death of the great Russian-American anarchist Frank Jacob On 28 June, 1936, Alexander Berkman ended his life. Suffering from prostate cancer and financial hardship, he could no longer endure. Two weeks before … Continue reading

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Memory and History: On the Poverty of Remembering and Forgetting the Judeocide

From the Verso Books Blog (19/06/2026) On what would have been Arno Mayer’s 100th birthday, we’re republishing Arno Mayer’s Memory and History, an expanded speech defending his practice of history, featured as afterword to Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

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Two Prosecutors: A film by Sergei Loznitsa

From lundimatin #525 (23/06/2026) At the start of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s film, Two Prosecutors (2025), two NKVD Chekists – torturers working in a “special detention” centre – exchange a joke that makes them laugh heartily. The prison commander tells … Continue reading

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Gays, Crazies, and Motherfuckers: Anarchists in the Stonewall Uprising

From the CrimethInc. collective (17/06/2026) Towards a Queer History of Riots and Affinity Group Organizing What can today’s rebels learn from the Stonewall riots? Why did the uprising have such an impact? To answer these questions, we explore the previously … Continue reading

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The Revolution Nationalists Cannot Join

From Ill Will (21/06/2026) In this conversation, Ralf Ruckus talks to Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020), about the emergence of nation states, the construction of the “migrant,” the role … Continue reading

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