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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
The long and winding May of 1968 (2): The student rebellion in Mexico
Our May 68 takes us to Mexico …
The long and winding May of 1968 (1): The Prague spring
May 1968 was not a franco-french, hexagonal affair. It was a global event. One would speak of it very differently if it had not resonated with, not only the occupied factories decked with red flags, but also with the Tet … Continue reading
The Situationists and May 1968
We share an essay by Miguel Amorós critically analysing the situationist reading of and role in May 68 (from libcom.org), followed by a series of Situationist texts from the events of May 68 … A brief review of the role played … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, france, May 68, Miguel Amorós, revolution, Situationists
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May 68: A Situationist reading
People strolled, dreamed, learned how to live. … For the first time youth really existed. Not the social category invented for the needs of the commodity economy by sociologists and economists, but the only real youth, of life lived without … Continue reading
I love Paris in the springtime: Tomás Ibáñez and the anarchy of May 68
VI. To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger. For historical materialism it is a question of holding … Continue reading
For Moishe Postone
In all revolutions up till now the mode of activity remained unchanged and it was only a question of a different distribution of this activity, a new distribution of labour to other persons, whilst the communist revolution is directed against … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-semitism, capitalism, Georg Lukács, marxism, Moishe Postone
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We fight because we like it: Maintaining our morale against seemingly insurmountable odds
They are just ghosts, the ones who think people fight to win! They fight because they like it. And There Was Light, Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, blind hero of the French Resistance From Conflictual Wisdom, through the hands of the Crimethinc … Continue reading
In solidarity: Marielle Franco, presente! – Political murder and State terrorism in brazil
From the Black Rose Anarchist Federation, in solidarity with Marielle Franco and the many, many others arrested, tortured and killed by the brazilian state … We republish this urgent statement of solidarity by our compañerxs with the Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira (CAB) … Continue reading
Walter Benjamin: Messianism and Revolution – Theses on History
The essay that we share below, by Andrew Robinson, bears the virtue of clarity; like a collector, he assembles the bits of Walter Benjamin’s work on messianism and revolution. And yet because he writes as a collector of ideas, Benjamin’s … Continue reading
The long and winding May of 1968 (3): The italian autonomist movement
Autonomy is the body without organs of politics, anti-hierarchical, anti-dialectical, anti-representative. It is not only a political project, it is a project for existence. Individuals are never autonomous: they depend on external recognition. The autonomous body is not exclusive or … Continue reading →