Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Done and to be done: For a manifesto of positive anarchy

From Lundi Matin, #443 (16/09/2024), we share a text by Maria Kakogianni – a manifesto of anarchy -, which by coincidence comes in the wake of our last post, the article by Miguel Amorós, “What is anarchism?”. The contrast between … Continue reading

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Miguel Amorós: What is anarchism?

From a las barricadas (02/09/2024). We share Miguel Amorós’ essay, “What is Anarchism?”, not because we are entirely in agreement with it – that has never been an exclusive criterion of selection for us -, but because of the forcefulness … Continue reading

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Uri Gordon: Anti-fascism and the Gaza genocide

From Freedom News (09/09/2024). When the far right perpetrates mass murder on the cusp of world war, comparing is not a provocation but a duty Netanyahu seems greyer every day. A face caked in makeup, with dull eyes that sometimes … Continue reading

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Yellow Vests, One More Effort in Favor of the Living!

The NOT BORED! journal collective has once again generously shared with us their tireless work of translating situationist and situationist inspired texts, for which we are grateful. On this occasion, it is a very recent piece (July 2024) by Raoul Vaneigem, dedicated to … Continue reading

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Ghassan Salhab: Trompe-l’œil

From Lundi Matin #441, 02/09/2024. What if old words like ‘genocide’ (and why not ‘colonisation’) were false friends? What if the new technologies that subjugate our emotions when we think we’re expressing them were also betraying us? And what if … Continue reading

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Not just sex: Talking about Alex Comfort with Eric Laursen

From Freedom News (30/08/2024). When I discovered the Freedom Press collection of Alex Comfort’s anarchist and anti-militarist writings, I’d already known him for 15 years as the author of The Joy of Sex. This pioneering couples’ manual, which featured ‘aesthetic’/’tasteful’ illustrations … Continue reading

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Anti-war statement

From avtonom.org (29/08/2024). We have stated from the very start that the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 is an imperialist aggression of the Russian state. That is still true. Our position on the war … Continue reading

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Through war, despotism and social change: Russia’s Anarchist Black Cross

From avtonom.org and Freedom News (30/08/2024). For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long history in Russia supporting imprisoned Russian anarchists, the challenges they face under Putin’s regime and their work during the … Continue reading

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Colin Ward and Martin Buber: Society and the State

We return to Colin Ward through the work of Martin Buber, in parallel essays addressing the nature of and the relation between the State and Society. For both authors, the relation between the two – in Buber’s terms, the relation … Continue reading

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Queer Wanderings through the Other Germany and the Anti-Nazi Underworld: An Invocation

From the CrimethInc. collective (19/08/2024). An Invocation The laws targeting queer and trans people that are proliferating across the United States are a symptom of a much deeper and more insidious reaction, the inevitable outgrowth of a deeply repressive and … Continue reading

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