Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

The story of Lastivska, Ukrainian anarcho-feminist activist on the front line: A report by Solidarity Collective

From lundimatin#467, 21 March 2025. Lastivka is a Ukrainian activist, squatter, anarchist, feminist and samba musician-dancer. She joined the front in 2022 and is now the commander of a drone unit. In this Solidarity Collective report, you will learn: How … Continue reading

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Endeavouring to think Gaza

Every house that the Israelis destroy, every life that they murder on a daily basis, and even every school day that they make the children of Palestine lose, take with them a part of the immense deposit of truth and … Continue reading

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Viewpoint: Will Trump’s Tariffs Be Good for Auto Workers?

From Labour Notes (02/04/2025) During the 2019 General Motors strike, while my fellow workers and I were pounding the pavement, something inspirational was happening south of the border: Mexican auto worker Israel Cervantes, along with many others at a GM … Continue reading

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Amador Fernández-Savater: Brutalism, the highest stage of neoliberalism

From Lobo Suelto (09/03/2025) What is significant is not what ends and consecrates, but what initiates, announces and prefigures. Achille Mbembe What time are we living in? How can we describe our time? For critical thinking, something decisive is at … Continue reading

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Government by executive order: A lesson in contemporary authoritarianism

If Trump’s electoral success is due in part to the far right’s ability to create a lifeworld shaped around his persona, the left must pursue a countervailing project. Its aim should be to transform the world people organically experience through … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: Only a god can save us now

Heidegger’s abrupt statement in the 1976 “Spiegel” interview: “Only a God can save us” has always been perplexing. To understand it, we must first put it into context. Heidegger had just spoken of the planetary domination of technology, which nothing … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: A political allegory

We are all in hell, but some seem to think that there is nothing to do here but to study and describe in detail the demons, their horrible appearance, their ferocious behaviour, their infamous machinations. Perhaps they delude themselves into … Continue reading

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Ursula k. Le Guin: A War Without End

From Jacobin Magazine (26/01/2018) Some thoughts, written down at intervals, about oppression, revolution, and imagination. Slavery My country came together in one revolution and was nearly broken by another. The first revolution was a protest against galling, stupid, but relatively mild social … Continue reading

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Ursula K. Le Guin: Is Gender Necessary? Redux

“Is Gender Necessary?” first appeared in Aurora, that splendid first anthology of science fiction written by women, edited by Susan Anderson and Vonda N. McIntyre. It was later included in The Language of the Night. Even then I was getting uncomfortable with some of … Continue reading

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“I Believe in an Anti-Systemic Feminism.” A Conversation with María Galindo

Si el feminismo deja de incomodar, no sirve absolutamente para nada. Por eso es que yo reivindico mucho ese feminismo intuitivo, que es un feminismo que quizás no se llama a sí mismo como feminismo, o sí, pero que básicamente … Continue reading

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