Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

For Jacques Camatte (1935-2025)

Revolution is now able to pose its true terrain of struggle, whose centre is everywhere, but whose place is nowhere. Its task in this sense is infinite: to destroy domestication and engender the infinite manifestation of the human being of the … Continue reading

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Tomás Ibáñez: Neo-fascism, new totalitarianism and the illusion of the ballot box

We share below a recent talk given by Tomás Ibáñez at the Ateneo Libertario La Idea, Madrid, on the 27th of February. The importance and urgency of its subject matter requires no introduction. (Source: Redes Libertarias, 17/03/2025) I shall begin with … Continue reading

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Simón Royo Hernández: Event and Anarchy: The anarchic event

We publish below an essay generously shared with us by its author, Simón Royo Hernández. Hernández’s work has endeavoured to engage philosophically with the tradition of political anarchism, as others have tried to do, in significant ways. We know that … Continue reading

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi: The Question

From ctxt: Contexto y acción (28/03/2025) and Lobo suelto (28/03/2025) A few days ago I received an invitation from an American association to participate in a conference to be held in Chicago on 5, 6 and 7 April. The theme … Continue reading

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How the UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management

From Freedom News (11/04/2025) Algorithms, facial recognition, and tightening protest laws signal a deepening surveillance state by Blade Runner The UK is expanding its use of predictive policing and surveillance, framing it as a response to crime, protest, and public … Continue reading

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Peter Gelderloos: Betrayed by Green Capitalism, Here’s How We Can Build a Livable Future

Imagining an anarchist-ecological possibility from our shared, collective past, with Peter Gelderloos. From In These Times (03/02/2025) The mainstream climate framework is utterly failing to solve the climate crisis. What could a real solution look like? In one way of … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: The old and the new

Why are we able to describe and analyse the old that is fading away, but we are unable to imagine the new? Perhaps because we believe, more or less unconsciously, that the new is something that arrives – we don’t … Continue reading

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New Order?

From Side Car/New Left Review (10/04/2025) New Order? Steve Maher & Scott Aquanno On 2 April, Donald Trump announced the imposition of sweeping tariffs on countries across the world, hitting allies and enemies alike with massive trade barriers, in what amounted to … Continue reading

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Disposable

From Side Car/New Left Review (11/04/2025) Disposable JoAnn Wypijewski I’ve seen disposable razors on mountaintops outside San Diego. I’ve seen plaid flannel shirts caught on the branches of low trees, trembling in the breeze near Bisbee. I’ve watched a pink … Continue reading

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Plenums in the post-Yugoslav space

We publish an article by Yavor Tarinski, published in the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (23/03/2025) and generously passed onto to us by the author, about recent protests in various Balkan countries and the centrality of peoples “assemblies” or “plenums” … Continue reading

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