Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Morocco in the winter of discontent

All your life is a long chain of fears – fears which bruise your body and lacerate your soul.  On those fears is based the authority of God, of the church, of parents, of capitalist and ruler.                                                                                                      Alexander Berkman … Continue reading

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Un desalojo, otra okupación

Colin Ward, writing of the post WWII british squatters movement, he came to identify four phases in squatting understood as a form of direct action to the housing problem in non-revolutionary situations.  There is first the initiative, the action that … Continue reading

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Casablanca …

We do not want to take power, but rather destroy it.  Destroy the monopoly of the use of force by the State, destroy the relations of domination and control over the territory.  Destroy the possibility of accumulating private property, alienation, … Continue reading

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The Dream of a Revolution: “Bom Povo Português” of Rui Simões

In the echo of protests in Portugal this last weekend (15/09), memories and possibilities from the past reappear, take on physical form, masks to reassume and modify for a utopian politics of the present.  The testimony/intervention of Robert Kramer with … Continue reading

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Fuck the Troika! We want our lives

A million people took the streest and squares of Portugal’s cities yesterday in a display of indignation against continuing policies of mass layoffs, salary and pension reductions, tax increases, cuts to public services and the like, all to satisfy the … Continue reading

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The art of revolution/Revolutionary art: Robert Kramer and the portuguese revolution

Robert Kramer's Scenes from the Class Struggles in Portugal (1977) remains an extraordinarily powerful film.  Committed ideologically to the revolutionary process unleashed by the coup d'état on April 25th, 1974, Kramer rejects any pretensions to neutrality.  The film is not … Continue reading

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Occupy: One Year On

The distinguishing factor between an action and a revolutionary action is its intention.  So, more important than the structure of growth we strive for, it is growth itself that must be re-imagined.  We must not expand for expansion’s sake….The most … Continue reading

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15M through the eye of film

El 15-M es sobre todo una llamada a la conciencia, el germen de una nueva cultura política que se abre paso entre las envejecidas pero aún dominantes estructuras de poder.                                                                                                                                    José Candón Mena, Una Breve historia del 15-M, Libre … Continue reading

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The Politics of the Body: Visions from 15M

For a revolution from and for a self-management of our bodies, of our lives, of our decisions and other spaces.  We affirm our bodies as territories that reject any form of colonization.                                                                             Comisión Transfeminista Benimaclet (Valencia) The body as … Continue reading

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It is all about what is dreamed: Sueños Colectivos

An excellent documentary about Anarchism in spain during the Civil War … but much more than that: it is a testimony of the creativity of those who sought to make real in their everyday the beauty of the anarchist utopia … Continue reading

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