Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

For George Floyd

NOW! (1965) Production: ICAIC | Director: Santiago Álvarez (Cuba)| Photography: Archives | Music: Song, Now! performed by Lena Horne | Editing: Norma Torrado, Idalberto Gálvez | Sound: Adalberto Jiménez | 6min

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Renzo Novatore: The anarchy of life

From Distinctively Dionysian … New Renzo Novatore and Bruno Filippi translations Bonsoir. There are twelve new Renzo Novatore writings, never before in English, now included in Distinctively Dionysian’s remaining spring ’20 issues. Due to the volume of new translations of … Continue reading

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black anarchism

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. James Baldwin, Down at the Cross The Anarchist movement in North America is overwhelmingly white, middle class, and for the most part, pacifist so the question … Continue reading

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COVID-1984: Power, control and the struggle for freedom

From antimidia (brazil) posted with koletiva.media … The struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic has been used by different governments to implement a variety of means of social control and to increase the powers of the police. Yes, the threat of … Continue reading

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Mutual Aid in Cape Town

Mutual aid is a response to crisis born within the cracks of regimes of State-Capital. It is also that which allows the creation of ties and bonds, of social relations, outside commodity and spectacle mediation. It is that which can … Continue reading

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United States: Facing counter-insurgency in times of riots

Counterinsurgency: dousing the flames of Minneapolis Peter Gelderloos (Roarmag 04/06/2020) As people rise up against police violence and structural racism, what counterinsurgency techniques is the state deploying to attack and undermine the movement? The uprising that has spread across the … Continue reading

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From riot to revolution: Protest as self-defense and mutual aid

Reflecting on the protests following the murder of George Floyd and as an historical example of mutual aid in African-American political history, a moment from the history of the Black Panther Party.

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Racism, from Minneapolis to Portugal

(https://www.instagram.com/olhosesfomeados/) On racism … Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be … Continue reading

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Against police violence, revolution

From the CrimethInc. Collective (31/05/2020), a reflection on a question that has so often been raised in the past, and that reappears again in the wake of the George Floyd police murder in Minneapolis … What Will It Take to … Continue reading

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A.C.A.B.: A Manifesto

MANIFESTO AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE / PUSSY RIOT x LASTESIS This manifesto is co-written and co-performed byfeminists from Mexico, Chile and Russia. We unite ourforces to stop police violence. In solidarity we trust.Pussy Riot x LASTESIS. PART 1. LASTESIS a feminist … Continue reading

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