Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Women and a revolution betrayed: Nicaragua

Voices of revolutionary feminism, or of revolutions forgotten and devoured from within … Anarchists always had great difficulties with the post-WWII anti-colonial movements and “third world” revolutions. Anarchists seemed to have been left by the wayside, as literally tens, hundreds, … Continue reading

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The anarchy of woodstock

The Commune was the biggest festival of the nineteenth century. Underlying the events of that spring of 1871 one can see the insurgents’ feeling that they had become the masters of their own history, not so much on the level … Continue reading

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Looting Back: An Account of the Ferguson Uprising

From the CrimethInc. Collective (09/08/2019) …

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Anarchy beyond feminism

Voices of revolutionary feminism; or the revolution that lies beyond all control … Rebellions and revolutions, overwhelm established identities, overflowing the confines of established social norms and roles. If insurrections begin in a place and time, they become insurrections precisely … Continue reading

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The commodity and the making of “woman”

Voices of revolutionary feminism … If we have little interest in the scholasticism and the baroque arcana of contemporary marxist theoretical debates, the wealth of marxist theory can be neither dismissed nor ignored. And debates around marxist inspired feminism are … Continue reading

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Italy: Autonomist feminism

Hence we must refuse housework as women’s work, as work imposed upon us, which we never invented, which has never been paid for, in which they have forced us to cope with absurd hours, 12 and 13 a day, in … Continue reading

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Las mujeres libres of spain

Voices of revolutionary feminism … We share two articles, a first on women in the spanish revolution and a second on the spanish anarchist organisation Mujeres Libres. And we close with the spanish film, Libertarias (1996).

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The anarchist feminism of Voltairine de Cleyre

… this ill-got thing you call morality, sealed with the seal of marriage … [is] … the consummation of immorality, impurity, and injustice. … every married woman … is a bonded slave, who takes her master’s name, her master’s bread, … Continue reading

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For Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don’t love your eyes; they’d just … Continue reading

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Anarchafeminist Manifesto

Voices of revolutionary feminism … The origin of the Anarchafeminist Manifesto is in Norway. The Anarchafeminist Manifesto is the summary of the feminist political program unanimously agreed upon by the third congress of the Anarchist Federation of Norway, 1—7 of … Continue reading

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