Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Poetry for gezi-taksim

From Everywhere Taksim …

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A Madrid October: Creating agoras, creating forms of life against capital

On the 19th of October, 15M returns to the streets and squares of spain's cities.  From the manifesto … Under the slogan, "Against Your Austerity, Take your Agora", more than 20 15M assemblies support this international demonstration that will take … Continue reading

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A Madrid October: The struggle against eviction – Resistance and occupation

After days of gathering to resist the announced eviction of an apartment block in Girona, the Salt block, owned by the SAREB, spain's bad bank, and occupied by the PAH on the 22 of March of this year, in the … Continue reading

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A Madrid October: The weapon of hunger

Capital exploits by appropriating human creativity and makes this exploitation the necessary condition to accede to those goods required for human survival.  It is a system, not in any static sense, comprised of a complex of social relations of domination; … Continue reading

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Fascism and anti-fascism: greek interventions

Posted on reinform and From the Greek Streets … Let’s get done with the system that breeds fascism – An interview with Dimitris Kousouris Dimitris Kousouris is one of the first political victims of Golden Dawn attacks. On June 16th, … Continue reading

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The struggle for a commons: Chronicles from spain

Civil war is the free play between forms-of-life; it is their principle of co-existence. “War” because in each singular play between forms- of-life, the possibility of a fierce confrontation — the possibility of violence — can never be discounted.  “Civil,” … Continue reading

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The Free Voice of Labor/Freie Arbeiter Stimme: The Jewish Anarchists

“The Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists” traces the history of a Yiddish anarchist newspaper (Fraye Arbeter Shtime – The Free Voice of Labor) publishing its final issue after 87 years. Narrated by anarchist historian Paul Avrich, the story … Continue reading

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The ecstasy of revolution: Gustav Landauer

Only when anarchy becomes, for us, a dark, deep dream, not a vision attainable through concepts, can our ethics and our actions become one. We want to be everything though: humans, animals, and Gods!  We want to be heroes! In … Continue reading

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Anti-fascism: A struggle against fear

A foreigner, returning from a trip to the Third Reich When asked who really ruled there, answered: Fear. Bertold Brecht Fear is the food of the sovereign.  Fear of the enemy without, fear of those enemies who may also lie … Continue reading

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In the days of our wars

…Empire has succeeded in shaping, out of the debris of civilisation, a new humanity, organically won over to its cause: citizens.  Citizens are those who, in the very midst of the general social conflagration, persist in proclaiming their abstract participation … Continue reading

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