Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

For Octavio Alberola (1928-2025)

The abandonment of utopia and the ethical concept of revolution has led revolutionary ideologies to sclerosis and ruin. Octavio Alberola Turning anarchism into a routine, a habit, which is only expressed on certain days and in a sectarian intimacy in … Continue reading

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The End of Biopolitics: Giorgio Cesarano and the Biological Revolution

Revolution is not, to put it in Benjaminian terms, the telos of historical dynamis, the intentional object of a revolutionary politics. Rather, it is a “state of the world,” a mode of being. Outside the sphere of separate politics, revolution is now the … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben on Guy Debord

… bringing to light — beyond all vitalism — the intimate intertwining of being and living was certainly then, as it is today, the unavoidable task of thought and politics. Giorgio Agamben From Ill Will (15/07/2025) Earlier this year, Giorgio … Continue reading

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Picking Fights

A grounded reflection on “anarchist ways” from the Seattle Solidarity Network, published with CrimethInc. (10/07/2025) Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network In the following reflections, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have learned in … Continue reading

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Charles Fourier, by René Schérer

We share below a portrait of Charles Fourier’s critique of capitalism by René Shérer (from Ill Will, 23/05/2025) and a portrait of René Schérer’s continuation of that critique in and through the concept of hospitality (from a 2013 interview). Charles … Continue reading

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Do Anarchists Support Democracy?

Do Anarchists Support Democracy?  The Opinions of Errico Malatesta Wayne Price (Source: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, 24/06/2025) In the current U.S.political crisis it is vital for anarchists and other radicals to be clear about their view of democracy. To this end, I … Continue reading

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Night of the Demon/Rendez-vous avec la peur

Remake of Jacques Tourneur’s film in six parts, by Nicolas Klotz (From Lundi matin #481, 23/06/2025) 1. The bright TRACES of missiles and bombs that pierced the night sky over Tehran on Friday, 13 June… also pierced television screens, our … Continue reading

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi: Racist global war

Desertion frugality friendship: how to survive while human history ends in horror. Over the past decade, I have frequently used the term “global civil war” to describe the third world war that has been creeping in since 2022 and was … Continue reading

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“Women, Life, Freedom” against the War

From the CrimethInc. collective (23/06/2025) A Statement against Genocidal Israel and the Repressive Islamic Republic This statement by a collective comprised of Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani internationalist feminists argues that we must oppose the murderous assault that the Israeli and … Continue reading

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The law and its political limits

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business … Continue reading

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