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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Remembering septembers past: Victor Jara
On September 16th, Victor Jara was killed five days after the 1973 coup d’état that brought to an end the government of Salvador Allende. He was among the thousands that died at the hands of Augusto Pinochet’s violent authority. But … Continue reading
Morocco: Racist Attacks in Boukhalef
… totalitarianism makes people superfluous as human beings. Hannah Arendt Originally posted on No Borders Morocco. The violence in Boukhalef, a quarter of Tangier in the North of Morocco, has reached a new dimension. Friday night, the 29th of August, … Continue reading
Anti-fascism in spain: Tetuán, Madrid
As well as the fascism of concentration camps …, new forms of molecular fascism are developing: the crematoria of Belsen can be satisfactorily replaced with the small furnaces of the family, the school, racism, ghettos of all sorts. All over … Continue reading
Anti-capitalist economies in post-15M spain: Mondragón, Cooperatives and Okupations
… I am bound to suppose that the realisation of Socialism will tend to make men happy. What is it then that makes people happy? Free and full life and the consciousness of life. William Morris In spain, there are … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Alternative Economies, cooperatives, revolution, spain
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Creating through resistance: The ZAD in Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Since the winter of 2012-2013, the Notre-Dame-des Landes resistance/okupation against the french government’s plan to build an airport in the midst of agricultural and forest lands has met with ongoing opposition. We chronicle here some of that continuing creativity, since … Continue reading
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Tagged france, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Okupations, revolution
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Tomás Ibáñez: “One never takes power, it is power which takes us”
On the occasion of the publication of Tomás Ibáñez’ book, Anarquismo es movimiento, we republish below, in translation, an interview with him that appeared in La Marea (29/06/2014): a reading of contemporary anarchism.
The dark tidings of Uri Gordon
Published in 2009 as part of an anthology of contemporary anarchism, Uri Gordon’s essay, “Dark tidings: Anarchist politics in the age of collapse”, remains an important reflection on anarchist theory and practice, which we endeavour to share and diffuse in … Continue reading
The artistic disobedience of Nina Paley: For Gaza
Calling both a grassy field and ideas a “commons” is interesting, because one of them, the grassy field, is tangible and scarce, whereas the other one is not actually limited. A lot of the conversation that happens around imaginary property … Continue reading
Scenes from the class war in spain: suicide
By chosing voluntary death we cast off the burden of our existence and refuse to simply survive. Jean Amery, On Suicide: A Discourse On Voluntary Death From the Stop Desahucios (Stop Evictions) of 15M Granada, comes the news of the suicide of Gustavo Arguellas Calvo … Continue reading
From Espai en Blanc: El Pressentiment
Born in 2002 in Barcelona, walking between critical thought and activism, the Espai en Blanc collective has elaborated creative forms of political intervention that we have been late to share. Below is the ongoing El Pressentiment …