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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
“All of a sudden the streets were ablaze”: Nikos Romanos and legacy of the Greek revolt
From Freedom News (06/12/2024) The anarchist’s recent arrest continues a long story: ten years ago today, his prison hunger strike brought the country to the edge of insurrection on the anniversary of the 2008 uprising ~ Neil Middleton ~ The recent arrest of … Continue reading
Georgia: The Firework Protests
From the CrimethInc. collective (04/12/2024) A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and … Continue reading
The Syrian Civil War Resumes
From the CrimethInc. collective (02/12/2024) Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from … Continue reading
Joan Busquets Vergés, the last Catalan Maquisard
“Being an anarchist now is no different from 50 years ago. It’s a philosophy and a search for truth. What I want is unity, of Europe and, were it possible, of the whole world, without frontiers, a world in which we all … Continue reading
Kristin Ross: A Common Horizon for Situated Struggles
The great social measure of the Commune was its own working existence. Karl Marx, The Civil War in France The French people seem to have understood this need wonderfully well, and the something new, which was introduced into the life … Continue reading
Miguel Amorós: Anti-developmentalism: what it is and what it wants
A 2014 restatement of the meaning of “anti-developmentalism” by the Spanish activist and author, Miguel Amorós, which he defines as the new form of the “modern class struggle”. Anti-developmentalism: What It Is and What It Wants In one respect, anti-developmentalism … Continue reading
Address to those who would rather abolish harmful phenomena than manage them
The ecologists play the same role, on the terrain of the struggle against harmful phenomena, that the trade unionists play on the terrain of workers struggles: mere intermediaries interested in the preservation of the contradictions whose regulation they assure; smooth-tongued … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Capital, capitalism, ecology, Encyclopédie des Nuisances
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Giorgio Agamben: The exile and the citizen
It is good to reflect on a phenomenon that is both familiar and unfamiliar to us, but which, as often occurs in such cases, can provide us with useful indications for our life among others: exile. Legal historians continue to … Continue reading
George Orwell: The Prevention of Literature
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging … Continue reading
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Miguel Amorós: The likely causes of the rise of the extreme right in the capitalist world
The most striking political phenomenon of our recent era, which some rightly call the era of authoritarian leaders, is the rise of the extreme right in the partycratic/party-dominated capitalist countries. Some prefer to call it the radical, ultra-nationalist or populist … Continue reading →