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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Iaroslavskaïa, the insurgent: Recuperating lost memories of revolution
The Russian Revolution often reduces itself, in superficial and/or interested narratives, to the seizure of political power in October of 1917 by Lenin’s Bolsheviks. It was of course far more than that, both before and after. And if the simple … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Evguénia Isaakovna Iaroslavskaïa-Markon, Feminism, revolution, russia
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The russian february revolution of 1917: Anarchist resonances
On International Women’s Day, February 23, 1917, after almost three years of war, women textile workers in Petrograd illegally struck over a food shortage. Soon other workers joined in the strike. By the end of the day, 75,000 workers were … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, revolution, russia, Voline
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First, they shot the anarchists: Trump and ‘The New Normal’
From the Its Going Down collective (08/02/2017), reflections on resistance to the “new normal” under Donald Trump …
Donald Trump and the limits of populism
Political scientists, commentators, journalists tell us that we live in an age of renewed nationalist populism; that against the rational, geopolitical management of global economic agencies, conservative-reactionary political movements threaten to upset the conditions of economic and social progress with … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, populism, revolution, united states
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The ZAD: an autonomous zone in the heart of france
From Roarmag collective (26/01/2017), a reflection on the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes by Martin Legall, a pre-figuarative struggle for autonomy …
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Tagged anarchism, france, Nuit Debout, Occupy, revolution, ZAD
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Anarchist myths
We share below a reflection by Ruymán Rodríguez of the Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria on the limits of an anarchism exclusively thought in terms of anti-statism and anti-capitalism.
Economies beyond capitalism: Anarchist reflections and practices
What is anti-capitalism? What distinguishes anarchist anti-capitalism from other “competing” social-political projects? Whatever answers are forthcoming to such questions, at the heart of any anti-capitalism is an “alternative economy”. What this in turn amounts to has been a matter of … Continue reading
Transgressing the threshold between art and revolution
What is art and what relation there is between it and revolutionary politics, anarchism, is a uniquely modern question born of the alienating social divisions of capitalism. To address the matter fully would require a reflection well beyond our present … Continue reading
Freedom against the freedom of speech
With the expansion of neo-fascist and neo-nazi groups in the shadows of ever more racist, xenophobic and sexist “traditional” conservative right-wing political parties, confusion over the significance of the liberal freedom of speech can paralyse radical political criticism and action. … Continue reading
Moments of anarchy in armenia
From the CrimethInc. Collective … High Voltage: Lessons from Four Summers of Unrest in Armenia As massive anti-corruption protests shake former socialist countries and NATO and Russia mass their troops along the border between East and West, anarchists are asking how … Continue reading →