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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Colin Ward: Anarchism as anarchy
The important question is … not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society. Colin Ward, … Continue reading
Charlottesville, Revisited—2017 to 2024
From the CrimethInc. collective (11/08/2024). What Can a Moment of Peril Tell Us about Our Own Dangerous Times? Seven years ago, anarchists and other anti-fascists converged in Charlottesville, Virginia to oppose the “Unite the Right” rally. The organizers of the … Continue reading
Amedeo Bertolo: An apology for anarchism
In a 1983 article for Volontà that we share below, Amedeo Bertolo endeavoured to critically diagnose the anarchist movement of his time in a remarkably direct and lucid manner; a diagnoses which we may help us to see through our … Continue reading
Bertolt Brecht: On the Theatricality of Fascism (1939)
Therefore learn how to see and not to gape.To act instead of talking all day long.The world was almost won by such an ape!The nations put him here his kind belong.But don’t rejoice too soon at your escape –The womb … Continue reading
James Baldwin: Sonny’s Blues
For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to tell, it’s the only light we’ve got in … Continue reading
James Baldwin: The Uses of the Blues
The title “The Uses of the Blues” does not refer to music; I don’t know anything about music. It does refer to the experience of life, or the state of being, out of which the blues come. Now, I am … Continue reading
For James Baldwin: “Telling it like it is”
If the hope of givingis to love the living,the giver risks madnessin the act of giving. Some such lesson I seemed to seein the faces that surrounded me. Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,what gift would give them the gift to … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-racism, black anarchism, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, united states
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Spain: Supreme Court confirms CNT unionists’ prison sentences
From Freedom News (18/07/2024). The Suiza 6 face three and a half years each for protesting outside their workplace Union branches across Spain have denounced the Supreme Court’s confirmation of prison sentences against six bakery workers for picketing. The workers … Continue reading
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Tagged Confederação Geral do Trabalho, spain, working class struggle
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France: Thousands protest ‘mega-basin’ reservoir expansion
The soulevements de la terre continue … From Freedom News (23/07/2024). Struggle against hoarding of water by agro-industry sees five days of action, culminating in a 10,000-strong march on the commercial port of La Rochelle The French environmentalist movement Soulevements … Continue reading
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 →