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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
A wall of exclusion and domination
The actual physical borderland that I’m dealing with … is the Texas-U.S Southwest/Mexican border. The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands and the spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact, the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, Gloria Anzaldúa, LGBTQI, mexico, migration, Security State, State and terror, united states
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For Daniel Guérin
My move in the direction of socialism wasn’t objective, or of an intellectual order,” Guérin writes of his political transformation in Vietnam. “It was more subjective, physical, coming from feeling and the heart. It wasn’t in books, it was in … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, Daniel Guérin, LGBTQI
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The russian revolution of 1917: Daniel Guérin
The Russian Revolution was, in fact, a great mass movement, a wave rising from the people which passed over and submerged ideological formations. It belonged to no one, unless to the people. In so far as it was an authentic … Continue reading
The catalan referendum: From Crimethinc
Reflections on the catalan referendum, from the Crimethinc. collective …
The catalan referendum: anarchy and/or self-determination?
Sunday, October 1st, was the day in which the residents of catalonia were asked to vote on the region’s independence. The referendum, having earlier been declared unconstitutional by the spanish courts, became then the object of an active judicially driven … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, catalonia, nationalism, spain, Tomás Ibáñez
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Giorgio Agamben: On the metropolis
Okupation, between the city and the metropolis; sharing a short reflection (generation online) by Giorgio Agamben on the politics of the metropolis against the city …
Voices from an okupation: The assembleia de occupação de Lisboa
Ongoing reflections on an okupation in Lisbon (continuing a discussion) … The essay below, which we share in translation, is by Tiago F. Duarte, a member of the Assembleia de occupação de Lisboa, a collective responsible for the recent occupation … Continue reading
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Tagged city, gentrification, occupy the city, Okupations, portugal
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The city belongs to those who occupy it: Okupying Lisbon
Reflections after an assembly of a new okupation in Lisbon … Any new occupation is invariably accompanied by uncertainty, an uncertainty only intensified by a lack of clarity over means and goals, organisation and methods of functioning, and the physical … Continue reading
Without fear: Land occupations in spain
On the 30th of June, the state owned land estate of Somonte, occupied in 2012 by landless, agricultural day labourers of the Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores/as (SAT), were evicted by a large police (Guardia Civil) intervention, for a fifth time. … Continue reading
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Tagged Land Okupations, Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores/as, Somonte
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The question of the independence of catalonia: From Crimethinc
We return to the referendum on the independence of catalonia, to the struggle between the spanish state and the state of an aspiring new republic, to where anarchists may find their ground …