Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Mark Bray: Five Historical Lessons for Anti-Fascists

Over the years – and long before us and no doubt after us – we have written about and against fascism and its many incarnations and have shared the words of many authors better than us who have written about … Continue reading

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Bientôt la fin du monde – L’étrangère

From Lundi Matin #435 (02/07/2024) …

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi: Impotence, dementia, nihilism

From Lobo Suelto (28/06/2024) … We saw the two flabby gladiators fight each other like exhausted fighting dogs for the amusement of millions of spectators who must decide which of the two deserves to be president of a nation that … Continue reading

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Bertolt Brecht: Writing the Truth – Five Difficulties (1935)

Fascism can be combated as capitalism alone, as the nakedest, most shameless, most oppressive, and most treacherous form of capitalism. Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. … Continue reading

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India: A 100 years of liberal fascist solitude

From lundi matin (#434, 24/06/2024), an interview (largely in English) with the Indian anthropologist, Alpa Shah. As a complement to this interview and to Alpa Shah’s work, we also share a series lectures, other interviews and links to articles. Her … Continue reading

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Against Liberal Fascism

War conducted by states against “communitarianism.” Implosion of popular communities. Negligence toward the weaving of our interdependences. And then, as if this social disaster wasn’t deep enough, emancipators who have nothing better to propose than the prisons of identity politics. … Continue reading

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The Collapse of Zionism

From the New Left Review/Sidecar blog, we share a short article by Ilan Pappé (21/06/2024). Hamas’s assault of October 7 can be likened to an earthquake that strikes an old building. The cracks were already beginning to show, but they … Continue reading

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What is dual power?

Via It’s Going Down Video mini-documentary from subMedia.Tv on the anarchist concept of dual power. Dual Power, sometimes referred to as counter-power, is a stage in a revolutionary movement where two competing political frameworks occupy the same space. For anti-state revolutionaries this implies … Continue reading

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The Strategy of Separation

The main takeaway is this: if we find at the core of the French Revolution — “mother to all of us,” as Kropotkin says — the main currents of the later revolutionary movement, first and foremost the libertarian and the … Continue reading

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France: For an anti-fascist uprising

From the Soulèvements de la terre, in France … 1 – The neo-fascist danger is real All over Europe and the world, neo-fascist parties are seizing power. Everywhere in society their xenophobic and authoritarian ideas are spreading. However, there is … Continue reading

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