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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Simón Royo Hernández: The timeliness of anarchism
From Redes Libertarias (15/11/2024) When we look at what remains of the glorious and spectacular anarchist movement, the fullness of which we can situate between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, … Continue reading
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
From the CrimethInc. Collective (23/12/2024) In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In … Continue reading
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Tagged State and Capital, State and terror, united states, Violence
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Giorgio Agamben: Labour and life
From Quodlibet (24/12/2024). One often hears the Italian Constitution praised because it has made work its foundation.[1] Yet not only the etymology of the term (labour designates an agonising punishment and suffering in Latin), but also its use as a … Continue reading
We Are Not Pawns, We Are the People Who Rose Against the Regime
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation (18/12/2024). This article by Syrian writer Jwana Aziz reflects on the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Jwana examines the conditions that precipitated the 2011 uprising, the years of civil war, and the difficulties that now … Continue reading
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen: Class Struggle in What Society?
From Ill Will (17/12/2024). 1. Any analysis of the re-election of Trump must depart from the George Floyd revolt, which remains the most important “political,” or rather anti-political, event in recent American history. In Minneapolis and other cities in 2020, … Continue reading
Diego Sztulwark: One year of Milei’s government
From Lobo Suelto! (09/12/2024) For many months we had the opportunity to investigate the reasons that made Javier Milei’s government possible: the subjective effects of the pandemic and the acceleration of remote communication technologies; the transformations in the structure of … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-fascism, argentina, capitalism, Diego Sztulwark, neoliberalism
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Leïla Al-Shami: “The future of Syria will be decided by the Syrians and nobody else”
An interview with Leïla al-Shami, from Lundi Matin #456, 16/12/2024. Leïla al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab are the authors of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, an important book in which they recounted the early years of the revolution and … Continue reading
Syria: The dictator has fled, long live the revolution
In less than two weeks, the Bashar al-Assad regime of Syria collapsed, with his flight to Russia, in the face of a military offensive conducted by a coalition of armed groups led by Hay?at Tahrir al-Sham. If we count his … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Omar Aziz, revolution, State terror, syria
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For Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
and if ever i touched a life i hope that life knowsthat i know that touching was and still is and will alwaysbe the truerevolution Nikki Giovanni, When I Die (1972) … a poem is pure energyhorizontally containedbetween the mindof … Continue reading
Negativity and positivity in anarchism: An inextricable but contradictory duality
Tomás Ibáñez writes on the inherent (contradictory) duality of the anarchist imaginary and anarchist practice, from Redes Libertarias (05/12/2024). When I opened the computer to start writing this text, I was tempted to title it: “In Fiery Praise of the … Continue reading →