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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
To create rather than to beg: The politics of direct action
To demand rights, rights to goods, is to demand them of someone, invariably an authority who in one form or another controls the access to those goods. It is to hand over one’s social fate to that authority, it is … Continue reading
Education as debt bondage
Government by debt subjects populations to a particular regime of submission, submission of the present to a future which is nothing more than an extension of the present. The present in fact vanishes before a kind of eternal “now” in … Continue reading
Remembering revolutions past: Vietnam, 1975
The “third world” seems a distant place under the rule of “neoliberal” capitalism. And yet the term once conveyed not denigration or humiliation, but revolution, the revolutions of colonised peoples against an arrogant and brutal colonial and neocolonial “first world”. … Continue reading
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For May Day
To celebrate May Day is not only to remember working class struggles of the past, but also to remember that what victories were had were born of struggle and that they are held fast to only to the extent that … Continue reading
Taking back labour: Workers’ resistance and factory okupations in turkey
Labour struggles of workers continually strain against the limits of legality and labour union domestication. If salaried work, as traditionally understood, is not the exclusive domain of capitalist exploitation, it nevertheless remains central. And as workers discover, at times literally … Continue reading
Taking back labour: Factory okupations in europe
The limits of workers managed factories in the midst of capitalist economic relations are well known: the inability to acquire or control resources and supplies for production, the need to continue to produce for existing markets, the need to compete … Continue reading
Migration: The freedom and death of bare life
Hannah Arendt once spoke of the phenomenon of mass refugee migration in the wake of the first world war as a testimony to the limits of any politics of human rights. Stripped of nationality, stateless, the refugee migrant embodies the … Continue reading
Borderland images: Between Melilla and Morocco
Borders striate land, dividing, segregating, displacing. As instruments of sovereignty, they are essential to delineating the exception that defines political power. As instruments for fixing the flows of labour, they enable exploitation. For those who refuse both, movement, migration, is … Continue reading
Scenes from the class struggle in spain: Evictions and deportations … and resistance
The State employs whatever means available to it to protect the free flow capital. The flow of capital however requires restricting the movement of people, such that unequal possibilities of economic development, or exploitation, are assured. The eviction of squatters … Continue reading
Thirty years okupying Madrid
We publish below a translation of an article that appeared in the Madrid based Periódico Diagonal (07/05/2015), celebrating thirty years of okupations in the city. If okupations are central to any anti-capitalist politics, they are equally haunted by risks and … Continue reading →