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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Confessions of a communard: Meeting the people where they are
From Freedom News (09/07/2026) Our strategy for 2027 has been about visible grassroots initiatives which announce our presence Wren Albion At the end of 2026 A Commune in the North (ACitN… pronounced “a kitten”) became the focus of a ‘Live Project’, where … Continue reading
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Giorgio Agamben: A way out
Often, in the widespread awareness that we are living through the end of a culture, arises the demand—or the hope—for a new beginning, that is, that after the collapse of a long tradition, a new and more vibrant one will … Continue reading
Tariq Anwar: Without a future
From Ficción de la razón (02/07/2026) What can a world be that cannot imagine its own future? Far from being mere empty rhetoric, this question touches the very core of our condition. For what has been exhausted is not simply … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Where are the just?
Who are the just? What does it mean to be just? Certainly, it is not a quality of a subject, an attribute of this or that man, this or that woman. Justice—Benjamin wrote—is a state of the world, a dimension … Continue reading
Herbert Read: The philosophy of anarchism (1940)
Ts’ui Chii said to Lao Tzu, “You say there must be no government. But it there is no government, how are men’s hearts to be improved?” “The last thing you should do,” said Lao Tzu, “is to tamper with men’s … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Men and women, and tourists
The word tourist first appeared in Italian in 1837 (tourism only in 1907). The etymology is clear: the tour (the Grand Tour) was the educational journey undertaken by European aristocrats and intellectuals from the 18th century onward, especially in Italy, … Continue reading
Is Fascism Winning in France? Interview with Ugo Palheta
From the Verso Books Blog (25/06/2026) Following his book Why Fascism Is on the Rise in France: From Macron to Le Pen, Ugo Palheta sits down with Rob Grams to discuss the societal conditions of fascism, the role of neoliberalism in … Continue reading
The utopian dimension
Miquel Amorós Redes Libertárias, nº 5, Spring 2026/online 23/06/2026 It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and … Continue reading
They broke his hands to silence his guitar
A furious sixteen-minute documentary responding to the coup in Chile remains a defining work of anti-fascist cinema Bleart Thaçi, Freedom News, (04/06/2026) Three months after the Chilean military coup of 11 September 1973, while the smoke of La Moneda still … Continue reading
Forms of Attention
by Eli Zaretsky, Sidecar/New Left Review (12/06/2026) In recent years the concept of attention has garnered considerable – well – attention. It has become, we are told, a commodity within the ‘attention economy’, a limited resource over which advertisers, social … Continue reading →