Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

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

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

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

Posted in Commentary | Tagged | Leave a comment

Mandate 2.0

We publish below an article by Siraj Izhar on the “Mandate” granted to Britain by the League of Nations in 1922. The “Mandate” would serve as a legal-political instrument for the control of the Palestinian population of the territory, in … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Santiago López Petit: How to stop being victims of waiting

From Lobo suelto! (15/03/2025) About the Soulèvements de la terre We are waiting. Day and night. Events follow one after the other, and we swallow them with little protest. The Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the genocide in Palestine, … Continue reading

Posted in Commentary | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Ukraine: On the ground with Solidarity Collectives

From Freedom News (09/05/2025) Their work in supporting anti-authoritarian armed resistance against Russian occupation has spilled over to directing aid to civilians living on the front Josie Ó Súileabháin “If people are tired of this war, tell them to come … Continue reading

Posted in News blog | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment