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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
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
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
Osera Te Quiero
The police of Madrid focefully brought to an end another Okupied Social Centre (05/07), La Osera de Usera. Okupied for the last 9 months, a neighbourhood had brought to life an unfinished theatre complex which had stood empty for 17 … Continue reading
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
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
The Government of the Economy or the Economy of Government: Notes on/for Giorgio Agamben
The current problem is altogether different: it’s a matter of using up, without war, the unprecedented accumulation, which has turned the whole world into a colossal powder keg. Georges Bataille, Sovereignty Krauss misses his stroke, a lump of … Continue reading →