Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Governing for freedom: Werner Bonefeld on the Bourgeois State

Werner Bonefeld’s work on the role of the state in the creation of a liberal economic order, that is, capitalism, is of great value.  Often understood as a simple tool of the bourgeoisie, anti-capitalist politics is then conceived of as … Continue reading

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From protest to protest … radicalising the general strike in 15M´s spain

In some 80 cities in spain, over one million people protested the latest government budget cuts.  Called by the principal labour unions of the country, minority unions, social movements and 15M joined the protest as a "critical bloc", to distinguish themselves … Continue reading

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Share Our Future – The CLASSE Manifesto

  This summer, the Québec student union CLASSE (La Coalition large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale) sets out across the province to share/explain to as many as possible the reasons for, the goals and hopes, of the student movement …

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Resonances of Temporary Autonomous Zones … for Hakim Bey

“…the demand for the eruption of the marvellous into the ordinary will become the most ringing, poignant & tumultuous of all political demands …”             Hakim Bey, Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy   The politics of the marvellous, … Continue reading

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And protests rain upon the government of spain

Between the coal miners’ strike and protests, spontaneous and organised, against the spanish government’s most recent efforts to reduce spending (increase in sales tax, reduction in the salaries of civil servants, reduction in unemployment insurance, and the like, adding up … Continue reading

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Scenes from the class struggle in spain: The Coal Miners’ Strike … and questions

“We do not struggle as working class, we struggle against being working class … .  Our struggle is not the struggle of labour: it is the struggle against labour. …There is nothing good about being members of the working class, … Continue reading

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Scenes from the class struggle in spain: The Coal Miners’ Strike

The spanish state/police, in dealing with the miners' strike, does not limit itself to confronting the miners, but also their families in their neighbourhoods and in their homes.  The miners' have lost their fear and it is the task of … Continue reading

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Lessons from an Okupation: São Lázaro 94

On the 25th of April, building number 94, São Lázaro Street, in Lisbon was okupied.  The okupation was brought to an end on the 31st of May, by order of the city government.  Dozens of municipal police were mobilised for … Continue reading

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Scenes from the class struggle in spain: The Coal Miners’ Strike

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles", Marx and Engels wrote in 1848, a truth that continues to resonate to our own day, whether in the Asturias or elsewhere.  The coal miners' strike of … Continue reading

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Toma la tele: 15Mbcn tv

  "In a world which really is topsy -turvy, the true is a moment of the false."                                                              Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle One of the remarkable features of 15M spain is the okupation/proliferation of media, as both a … Continue reading

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