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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Revolution is ageless: The Iaioflatas of 15M’s spain
In the Fall of 2011, from 15M Barcelona, emerged a self organised working group centered around the mobilization of retired peoples; retired from labour, but not from life and the desire to create something better out of/against the wrekage of … Continue reading
American Autumn
From Occudoc.org, a documentary about Occupy …
Pacifying the Rebellious: The War Against the Coal Miners
With their jobs condemned to disappear, their communities to be destroyed, the coal miners' of spain struggle against the logic of capital. The manner in which they become disposable is a fate that can touch all of us. Their fight … Continue reading
Agrarian Revolution in Andalucia
And it will again be by the working in common of the soil that the enfranchised societies will find their unity and will obliterate the hatred and oppression which has hitherto divided them. Peter Kropotkin On the 4th of … Continue reading
The Anarchist Cinema of a Revolution: 1936-1938
The collectivization of the economy during the spanish republic’s struggle against Franco’s nationalist uprising would in areas under anarchist control, lead to the emergence of a collectivised anarchist film production and distribution. The films, and the literature that speaks of … Continue reading
La Marcha Negra de los mineros en España
On the 22 of June, coal miners from the Asturias, Castilla and León, and Aragón set off on a march on Madrid, in protest against the closing of the mines. Video and text about the strike and the march … Continue reading
Reform or Revolution in 15M’s spain
… when a company, corporation or state is not considered a legitimate partner for negotiation, then it makes no sense to appeal to that authority for a negotiated settlement. Judith Butler, Tidal 2 The old question of reform or … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Carlos Taibo, greece, spain, Spanish Revolution
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Banks are bailed out and Families are evicted: Okupations under 15M’s spain
15M, almost since its beginning, has joined other social movements to prevent the eviction of families from houses that they can no longer aford, as a consequence of unemployment. It is a politics of okupation, which in itself, or … Continue reading
The Poetic Imagery of Yiannis Biliris
… a photograph is not only an image, an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real … Susan Sontag The photography and video of Yiannis Bilris of the protests/insurrection … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, greece, Yiannis Biliris
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Gleaning or the bloody joys of capitalism
Capitalism is a system that exists in and through excess, the excess of production, profits, consumption and their corollary, waste, the waste of nature's wealth, the waste of human creativity and the waste of consumption. How do we stop making … Continue reading →