Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

The stakes in Rojava: Murdering a revolution

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

As Rojava becomes the front line of inter-state conflict (the Guardian), it is the destruction of the revolution created and fought for on this land that is the objective of the military interventions. A reflection on the stakes of events … Continue reading →

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Rojava: In defence of a revolution

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

The news has come, Erdogan’s turkish army has begun its offensive against north-eastern syria, against the Rojava Revolution, which threatens not only his authoritarian rule, but that of the whole middle east. Whatever doubts or hesitations one may have regarding … Continue reading →

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Frédéric Lordon: Imagining revolution and the problem of scale

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

To share, in translation, a critical essay of “micro” revolutionary politics, by Frédéric Lordon … Lordon may be accused of simply reenacting the old marxist-social democratic criticism of anarchism: that the latter’s anti-statism ignores the inevitable role of state power, … Continue reading →

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Resistance in Rojava

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. Collective (07/10/2019) … The Nationalists and the Jihadists Together: And Against Them, Only Autonomous Resistance Trump’s betrayal of Rojava shows the symbiotic relationship between far-right nationalist tyrants like Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and … Continue reading →

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Another end of the world is possible!

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

The only way to address the environmental crisis and global climate change is to abolish capitalism! From the CrimethInc Collective, from brazil (24/09/2019)… What Is Burning the Amazon? A Plea from Brazilian Anarchists As the fires in the Amazon rainforest … Continue reading →

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Of trees and of men

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From lundi matin #209 (23/09/2019): further reflections on Capital’s ecocide (in translation) … Two weeks ago, lundi matin published a beautiful text by Alessi Dell’Umbria on the subject of extractivism in general and the Amazon fires in particular:La terre brûlée … Continue reading →

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Exarchia: Remembering what has been created, living what is at stake

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

For the rebels of Exarchia, for Notara 26 (from Yannis Youlountas) … Tomorrow evening, we will celebrate the 4th birthday of Notara 26, the first squat of the “refugee crises” in the centre of Athens, opened on the 25th of … Continue reading →

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Exarchia: State evictions of squats continue

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From Yannis Youlountas (23/09/2018) …

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Hong Kong: A phenomenology of permanent insurrection

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

This struggle has played a pedagogical role for everyone who has participated in it. It is a phenomenological pedagogy in which the city that we inhabit has acquired an entirely new significance through the process of the struggle—every aspect of … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: Resonances

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

We no longer wish to live as before. From lundi matin#207, 09/09/2019 … Une juste colère – Interrompre la destruction du monde/A just anger – Interrupting the destruction of the world, by the historian and anthropologist Jérôme Baschet, will appear … Continue reading →

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