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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Okupations without borders: The ExMoi occupation in Turin
Squatting is politically significant as part of a conscious project to contest the sanctity of private property, the exclusive role of the State in securing rights and providing for social needs, as experiments in autonomous self-management, which multiplied, both create … Continue reading
A cinema of resistance: René Vautier
Not so long ago, the earth numbered two thousand million inhabitants: five hundred million men, and one thousand five hundred million natives. The former had the Word; the others had the use of it. … It came to an end; … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, colonialism and anti-colonialism, René Vautier
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Testimonials from a revolution in Rojava
The Autonomies Collective has assumed no open position on the “Rojava Revolution” for reasons of ignorance. In the absence of consistent information on what is happening in the region, as well as its complexity, we have abstained from judging or … Continue reading
To change everything: An anarchist appeal
We share below a post that appeared on anarchistnews.org, regarding an initiative from the anarchist group crimetheInc to diffuse, spread, the ideas of anarchism. The written and video material are excellent and in solidarity, we reproduce the gesture.
Laughing with Charlie Hebdo
We vomit on all these people who suddenly say they are our friends. Bernard Holtrop The killings at Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere, over the course of the last week in france, have become spectacle, culminating in the multitudinous demonstrations throughout … Continue reading
The art of charlie hebdo
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire … we should call every truth fake which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche Notre ressort est de dénoncer la bêtise en faisant rire. Cabu … Continue reading
For Charlie Hebdo
Profanation … neutralises what it profanes. Once profaned, that which was unavailable and separate loses its aura and is returned to use … [It] deactivates the apparatuses of power and returns to common use the spaces that power had seized. … Continue reading
The songs of anarchy: spain
Anarchism in spain, from its beginnings in the later half of the 19th century until the revolution/civil war of 36-39, was to be found in an extraordinary wealth of expressions: among them song. We share in this post what came … Continue reading
Forms of politics: Anarchism and organisation
S’organiser n’a jamais voulu dire s’affiler à la même organisation. S’organiser, c’est agir d’après une perception commune, à quelque niveau que ce soit. Dormir, se battre, manger, se soigner, faire la fête, conspirer, débattre, relèvent d’un seul movement vital. La … Continue reading
The political bestiary of capitalism: Syriza, parliamentary democracy, the welfare state, and other creatures too frightful to mention
The less than flattering history of social-democratic, socialist and communist governments is more than ample reason to be skeptical about the election of a “left wing” Syriza led government in greece; and if not, at least to suggest cautious restraint … Continue reading →