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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Revolution from below: Cooperativa Integral Catalana
In continuity with an earlier post about an initiative that originated in Catalonia calling for the creation of an international network/space for the ideological and practical elaboration of autonomies beyond capitalism (integrarevolució), a return to one of the groups, members … Continue reading
From factory occupations to revolution?
The occupation of factories, of the industrial fabric of a society, is essential to any broad revolutionary movement against State-Capital. It is however by no means sufficient. Occupations can only be a part of a more general effort to create … Continue reading
A call to revolution
From Catalunia comes a call to create an international network/space for the ideological and practical elaboration of autonomies beyond capitalism (integrarevolució). Originating among people involved with Radi: Revolució, Acció, Desobediència, Integral and the Cooperativa Integral Catalana, as well as Derecho … Continue reading
Grândola Vila Morena: 2nd of March
On March the 2nd, a million and a half people in portugal filled the cities’ streets to the music of Zeca Afonso’s Grandola Vila Morena. The song thus resonates from a historical moment in the country’s imaginary, the Revolution of … Continue reading
Reflections amid violence
(Photograph by Francesca Oggiano, from the series The Stolen Eyes) in memory of Walter Benjamin for n.m. A historical materialist approaches a historical subject only where he encounters it as a monad. In this structure he recognizes the sign … Continue reading
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Tagged messianic politics, Quebec Student Movement, revolution, Violence, Walter Benjamin
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For Stéphane Hessel
Je crois que la véritable création est impertinente. Stéphane Hessel, Le Monde (08/07/2011) Stéphane Hessel died on the night of the 26th to the 27th of February. And with him passes one more of that generation of women and men … Continue reading
475: In solidarity with the women of morocco
At 16, Amina committed suicide after a Moroccan judge sentenced her to marry her rapist. This film is about who and what let it happen.
Žižek dreaming, or Žižek, the dialectical trickster
“…one should learn the art of recognizing, from an engaged subjective position, elements which are here, in our space, but whose time is the emancipated future …” Slavoj Žižek, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously Reflecting on the year 2011, a year … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, revolution, Slavoj Žižek, spain, Spanish Revolution
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The tides of change: spain’s “mareas”
On the 17th of February, over half a million people took to the streets of spain’s cities in a protest against cuts to the budget of the country’s public health services. It was but only the most recent example of … Continue reading
A timeless spring
(Image from the Ecole de la Montagne Rouge) The Québec student movement of the printemps érable of 2012, which began as a protest movement against proposed increases in university tuition fees, very quickly became a much broader social movement that in its … Continue reading →