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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Minneapolis: Now This Fight Has Two Sides
From the CrimethInc, reading the Minneapolis riots … Minneapolis: Now This Fight Has Two Sides – What the Riots Mean for the COVID-19 Era The demonstrations this week in Minneapolis mark a historic watershed in the COVID-19 era. As we … Continue reading
Tomás Ibáñez: Anarchism as a way of life
A new way of life, not a new faith…. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist To speak of anarchism as a way of life, as an ethics, takes us to difficult questions about what it is to be, to act, as an anarchist. And … Continue reading
Anarchists in pandemics past
As a compliment to our last post reflecting on current mutual aid initiatives in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and for its own sake, we share an excellent piece published by the CrimethInc. collective on anarchist mutual aid practices … Continue reading
Mutual aid in pandemic times
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that it has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, ecology, mutual aid, Peter Kropotkin
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Greece: The politics of exception in times of the pandemic (2)
Greece is often presented as an example to follow in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, having kept numbers of infection and death comparatively low. (the Guardian) What is so often ignored or passed over in these celebratory judgements is … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-prison, greece, migration, State and terror, State terror
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Greece: The politics of exception in times of the pandemic
Greece is often presented as an example to follow in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, having kept numbers of infection and death comparatively low. (the Guardian) What is so often ignored or passed over in these celebratory judgements is … Continue reading
Raúl Zibechi: Mapping militant mutual aid
Raúl Zibechi has been actively chronicling examples of mutual aid throughout latin america that are of enormous importance for the understanding of what is politically possible in times of crisis and pandemic. His work can be followed in spanish at … Continue reading
Albert Camus: The plague is the concern of all
Reflections on our contemporary Albert Camus on times of the pandemic … No longer merely metaphor: Re-reading The Plague by Albert Camus Kristian Williams (threewayfight, 28/03/2020) Albert Camus’ novel The Plague offers a portrait of a town under quarantine, ravaged by an epidemic. … Continue reading
Arundhati Roy: Our task is to disable the engine
The coronavirus pandemic has brought the machine of capitalism to a grinding halt. Arundhati Roy (Progressive International, 02/05/2020) While the human race is momentarily incarcerated, and even as a record-size hole opens in the ozone layer above the Arctic, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arundhati Roy, ecology, State and Capital, State and terror
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Solidarity With The Rebels In Minneapolis
An anonymous contribution to the understanding of a rebellion, posted on It’s going down (28/05/2020) … The Following Editorial Looks At The Recent Revolt In Minneapolis In The Context Of Both The COVID-19 Pandemic And The Overall Social War In … Continue reading →