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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Against the behemoth
The scandal that is Donald Trump’s administration – from the gutting and/or paralysing of federal government agencies, justified in the name of eliminating and controlling government waste of public monies due to indulgent, corrupt government workers and government policies, to … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-statism, Gustav Landauer, united states, Walter Benjamin
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Giorgio Agamben: The remnant of Israel
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy … Continue reading
The Day the Émigrés Struck Back
From the CrimethInc. collective (05/02/2025) Remembering the General Strike of May Day 2006 In 2006, students around the United States engaged in spontaneous walkouts protesting the repression of undocumented people, culminating on May Day in the first great general strike to take … Continue reading
Parrhesia: To speak freely, with courage, to the tyrant
From Michel Foucault and Right Rev Mariann Edgar Budde: The courage to speak the truth to power. To begin with, what is the general meaning of the word parrhesia? Etymologically, parrhesiazesthai means “to say everything” – from pan … (everything) … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Good and Evil
The old doctrine that evil is merely the deprivation of the good, and therefore does not exist in itself, needs to be corrected and supplemented in the sense that it is not so much the deprivation as the perversion of … Continue reading
A prison letter from Rosa Luxemburg to Sophie Liebknecht; A letter to our present
Rosa Luxemburg: Letters to Sophie Liebknecht Breslau, Mid December, 1917 Karl has been in Luckau prison for a year now. I have been thinking of that so often this month and of how it is just a year since you … Continue reading
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
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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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, ecology, technology, united states
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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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T. J. Clark: For a left with no future
The British art historian and writer Timothy James Clark published an essay in 2012 with the New Left Review (74, March/April, 2012) that we believe remains as relevant today as it did then. Writing in the wake of the 2008 … Continue reading →