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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
The happiness of Sisyphus: An interview with Tomás Ibáñez
We share below the translation of an interview with Tomás Ibañez, reflecting on the current rise, in the wake of the mass social movements of 2011, of “left-wing” political parties. The interview was originally published in the greek efsyn.gr (02/05/2015), and … Continue reading
Anarchists organise everywhere: The catalan anarchist federation
We share and translate news from the A las barricadas (04/05/2015), about the Anarchist Federation of Catalonia, one more effort to bring together libertarian interventions in society …
Apoyo Mutuo: Organising anarchy
Three weeks before spanish municipal elections, Apoyo Mutuo (Mutual Aid) appears as a tool that transforms into a political actor all of those persons who do not see themselves represented in the institutional path of politics. On the 9th of … 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
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
La lucha sigue en la calle: Spain’s 15M four years on
The shur indians , the so called jíbaros, cut off the heads of the vanquished. They would cut them and shrink them until they could be held in a fist, so that the vanquished does not resuscitate. But the vanquished … Continue reading →