Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Report from Los Angeles as Mutual Aid Hubs Mobilize in the Face of Historic Wildfires

From It’s Going Down (15/01/2025) Grassroots journalist Alissa Azar reports on the unfolding ecological disaster in Los Angeles and how mutual aid groups are mobilizing in response. On Tuesday, January 7th, people in Los Angeles County, California began receiving a high wind … Continue reading

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Good Night, Tech-Right: Pull the Plug on AI Fascism

From It’s Going Down (26/01/2025) On January 20th, at a ceremony attended by both far-Right and neo-fascist leaders from around the globe and some of the richest tech billionaires in the world, including the heads of Apple, Google, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and Amazon, … Continue reading

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Belarus: No options to choose from

Two texts, from Pramen (26/01/2025) This Sunday, January 26, Lukashenko will appoint himself president of the Republic of Belarus for the seventh time. The only unknown in this whole story is how many percent of the so-called public support will … Continue reading

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Will the real Proudhon please stand up?

From Freedom News (20/01/2025). Instead of anarchist lore, we need historical context and an open mind Shawn P Wilbur   It’s challenging to think about Pierre-Joseph Proudhon today: like it or not, we struggle with him in his role as a … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: Conjuncture and revolution

Conjuncture and revolution It is a fact on which we should never tire of reflecting that one of the key terms in our political vocabulary – “revolution” – has been taken from astronomy, where it designates the movement of a … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben: The number of the murdered

The number of the murdered It is necessary to meditate again and again on the passage in Revelation (6:9-11) where we read: “When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been … Continue reading

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Mike Davis: The Fire Boom

From the Verso books blog. Mike Davis’s essay on LA as a locus of ecological destruction, taken from his classic work Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Mike Davis (14/01/2025) In this excerpt from Mike Davis’s classic … Continue reading

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Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi: Introduction to the Twenty-First century

From Freedom News (10/01/2025). Agents of chaos and agents of the automaton in the horizon of mutation A South African racist named Elon Musk, whom newspapers call the richest man in the world, recently earned another, more interesting, nickname: “an … Continue reading

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The indomitable anarchist of the Iron Column

We say to all workers, revolutionaries, and anarchists: at the front and in the rear, wherever you are, fight against the enemies of your liberties, destroy fascism. And also stop, by the fruits of your endeavors, the return of a … Continue reading

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Remembering Louise Michel: “Now I have only the revolution left”

From Freedom News (09/01/2025) 120 years after her death, the hero of the Paris Commune continues to inspire Maurice Schuhmann In the Hôtel Oasis in Marseille, the French anarchist, feminist, and Communard Louise Michel passed away on January 9, 1905. … Continue reading

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