Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Fascisms, yesterday and today

A reflection on Fascism, by Alessandro Stella, published with Lundimatin #402, 06/11/2023. Many people, unfortunately, have an outdated image of fascism, made up of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and other military-political dictators of the 20th century claiming this ideology. Some are … Continue reading

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The Milei Hurricane

A presidential election in Argentina might seem very exotic to us. And in fact, apart from Lundimatin and other excellent media, no one was really interested in what was happening in the “Pampas”. Yet Javier Milei, who, a few days … Continue reading

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Free Palestine/Free Israel (IV)

The Zionist project could only be realised through the creation in Palestine of a purely Jewish state, both as a safe haven for Jews from persecution and a cradle for a new Jewish nationalism. And such a state had to … Continue reading

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Roundabouts, Against Solitude

Remembering and resisting the erasure of the rebellion of the Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests with a piece published with lundi matin (#400, 24/10/2024) and with an excellent documentary film dedicated to the same, entitled Les Magnifiques Sauvages (in french). November 17 … Continue reading

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Free Palestine/Free Israel (III)

Imagining freedom and justice beyond state sovereignty, with Hannah Arendt. Politically, this identification of freedom with sovereignty is perhaps the most pernicious and dangerous consequence of the philosophical equation of freedom and free will. For it leads either to a … Continue reading

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Free Palestine/Free Israel (II)

Thus, in some form, the constitutive process of a land-appropriation is found at the beginning of the history of every settled people, every Commonwealth, every empire. This is true as well for the beginning of every historical epoch. Not only … Continue reading

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Free Palestine/Free Israel

“Genocide”: … any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of … Continue reading

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Strategizing for Palestinian Solidarity: Expanding the Toolkit

“US weapons ship to Israel blocked by peace activists at port of Tacoma. Peace activists have staged a standstill at the Port of Tacoma, blocking the departure of a US ship believed to be carrying weapons destined for the state … Continue reading

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Conflagrations

From lundi matin #402 (06/11/2023) … Profanations and barbarisms The Israeli government, by fanatically bombing Gaza, is profaning the deaths of October 7. And it is profaning those who died long before, under the bullets of the Nazis and in … Continue reading

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When ‘never again’ becomes a war cry

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a … Continue reading

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