Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Omnia Sint Communia

Dervish at the Door A dervish knocked at a houseto ask for a piece of dry bread,or moist, it didn’t matter. “This is not a bakery,” said the owner. “Might you have a bit of gristle then?” “Does this look like a butchershop?” … Continue reading

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The empire’s death engine strikes again

From Freedom News (16/06/2025) Israel’s attack on Iran marks the latest phase of global war capitalism—subcontracted settler-colonialism and genocidal thanatopolitics converge, as Western regimes and their enemies arm and threaten with Armageddon ~ Blade Runner ~ The Israeli state has escalated once … Continue reading

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Victor Artola: Los Angeles, or the End of Assimilation

From Ill Will (14/06/2025) As we entered the fifth month of the second Trump era, the explosive social movements that marked the close of the 2010s seemed like a distant memory. The fifth anniversary of the burning of the Third … Continue reading

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Fire and Ice: Lessons from the Battle of Los Angeles

An anonymous text, published at Ill Will (14/06/2025) A printable zine version can be downloaded here. I think I’ll stay on this earthquake fault near this still-active volcano in this armed fortress facing a dying ocean & covered w/dirt while … Continue reading

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Don’t Let LA Stand Alone: A Message to the Gathering Resistance

From It’s going down, 13/06/2025 Over the past week, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Los Angeles, fighting to defend their neighborhoods and family members from ICE, facing off with the National Guard to demand those imprisoned … Continue reading

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Agustín García Calvo, or Thought as Direct Action

Agustín García Calvo, poet, dramaturgist, essayist, linguist, philosopher is sadly very little known in the English speaking world. And as an “anarchist”, who would refuse the term, his contributions to “anarchism”, or to a way of thinking describable as anarchistic, … Continue reading

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The white shadow

From Lundi matin #479, 10/06/2025 In the rubble of Gaza, a white patch for a white coat… Safiya means “pure” in Arabic, as in the image of the world that remains “pure” when only the shadows of of the shadows … Continue reading

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Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism

From the CrimethInc. collective (06/06/2025) Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity Much has been made of the distinction between charity and mutual aid. Charity is top-down and unidirectional, while mutual aid is supposed to be horizontal, reciprocal, and participatory. In … Continue reading

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Gabriel Azaïs: Artificial Intelligence, or the End of Technics

From Ill Will (18/04/2025) The aim of AI is not so much to replace man with the machine but to make it so that man behaves, acts like a machine, that society as a whole technicizes through a subtle play, by turns, … Continue reading

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Miquel Amorós: The new internationalism in the struggle for de-globalisation

From Redes libertarias (17/12/2024) I am asked to reflect on the constraints imposed by state frameworks – borders, languages, national idiosyncrasies – when building relations on a global scale. Such a reflection cannot be carried out in the abstract, but … Continue reading

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