Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

MUTE – The visualisation of economic rape: Yiannis Biliris

As thousands protest today Angela Merkel’s visit to the financial protectorate of the Troika that is greece (09/10/2012), protests that were prohibited by the city authorities in the greater part of Athens, Yannis Biliris continues to capture the violence of … Continue reading

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Imagining/Creating Autonomy: Abraham Guillén

The struggle to imagine and put into place an autonomous, self-managed society is at the heart of anarchism, and for anarchists, something that is present in any revolutionary politics, whether of the past or the present.  During the spanish revolution … Continue reading

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News from 15M’s spain

  With billions of euros in public money going to save spain's banks (and trillions to save the banks of the US, UK, Ireland and Greece, to mention but these countries), while salaries, pensions, education, health and other public services … Continue reading

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In memory of Eric Hobsbawm

In memory, but also in celebration, of the work of someone from which many learned and will continue to do so.  Eric Hobsbawm died on the 1st of October.  This is not a testimony of agreement on all matters – … Continue reading

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In celebration: Occupy Wall Street on Film

Occupy Wall Street's exuberance, after one year is evident politically and aesthetically.  What follows is a very modest testimony of the movement, now movements'  passion and beauty …

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Talking about a revolution!

If resistance must bring with it a new way to live, a life more liveable that opposes itself to the differential distribution of precariousness, then acts of resistance will say no to a way of life at the same time … Continue reading

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Anarchy’s dancing friends

for n.m.and a.b. for the members of the Paideia collective Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused.  “I don’t know why.  Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.                                                                   John Steinbeck Friendship, this relation … Continue reading

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Trials of/in greece

Greece lived, on the 26th of september, another one day general strike, the first faced by the new government, and one of many that has marked Greece's recent history.  A question arises: of what value are one day general strikes?  … Continue reading

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What is at stake in 25S, the taking of the spanish congress

The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another… We are the State and we shall continue to be the State … Continue reading

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Casablanca lives, the struggle continues …

In Anarchist theory, "revolution" means the moment when the structure of authority is loosed, so that free functioning can occur.  The aim is to open areas of freedom and defend them.                                                                                                                            Paul Goodman The forces of order may have … Continue reading

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