Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Ahead of Another Summer of Climate Disasters, Let’s Talk about Real Solutions

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (08/05/2024) … In cooperation with Freedom, we present a short text from Peter Gelderloos exploring why the strategies that mainstream environmental movements are currently employing to halt industrially-produced climate change are failing—and what we could be doing … Continue reading →

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Daniel Blanchard: Crisis of words

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

At the social level, when a gigantic corporate, media and political engineering imposes, demands and expropriates at the same time the word, have not the silent majorities been for years an ambivalent black hole that express in their own way … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary | Tagged Amador Fernández-Savater, Art and Revolution, Daniel Blanchard | 1 Comment

For Daniel Blanchard (1934-2024)

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

I think that radical, revolutionary critical theory is not a science; its purpose is not to provide a comprehensive, neutral account of reality. It is a political act carried out in order to transform the world and seeks to reveal … Continue reading →

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The Gaza Solidarity Movement

Posted on May 6, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

Why the State Can’t Compromise with the Gaza Solidarity Movement, And What That Means for Us From the CrimethInc. collective (03/05/2024) … On April 17, students at Columbia University initiated an on-campus encampment in solidarity with Gaza. After the administration called in the … Continue reading →

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A B [Cinétract/Film-tract]

Posted on May 6, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

Gilles Deleuze, revolution, Palestine and stereoscopy From Lundi Matin #427, (06/05/2024) … What follows is an extract from Gilles Deleuze’s Abécédaire/The ABC Primer, over a series of images of stereoscopic photographs of Palestine dating from the 19th century. We have … Continue reading →

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Leftist rhetoric, leftist despair

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From Freedom News (28/04/2024) … If a contest were held for who publishes the most effective posters in my city, it would undoubtedly go to the Trotskyites because whatever is in the news that week they engage with and their … Continue reading →

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Ian Alan Paul: Liberal Infernos

Posted on April 29, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From Ill Will (27/04/2024) … The liberal order overseeing and administering the genocide in Palestine is built upon the marriage of egalitarian values and exterminating violence, upon the intimate coupling of supposedly hallowed rights and the hell it unleashes upon … Continue reading →

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Portugal: The revolution of 1974-1975

Posted on April 25, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

The Portuguese experience between 1974 and 1976 shows that revolutionary activity does not develop as the result of strategies devised by system analysts or bourgeois planners … It emerges in the course of the struggle itself, and its most advanced … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary | Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, Charles Reeve, Enzo Traverso, Étienne Balibar, Gilles Deleuze, José Afonso, May 68, portugal, revolution, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

The geopolitics of carnage

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

By Frédéric Neyrat (of the collective Contre-Ciel), published in lundi matin #425 (22/04/2024) That we can no longer say “free Palestine” without being qualified as terrorists, that the signifier Palestine is now banned, is often interpreted as a “fascist” or … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary | Tagged anti-militarism, Frédéric Neyrat, geopoltics, pacifism, palestine | 1 Comment

April 1964-April 2024: The origins of a symbol

Posted on April 2, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

We publish below a pamphlet generously shared with us by Tomás Ibáñez that tells the story of the circled A as an anarchist symbol, a symbol whose 60th anniversary falls on this year.

Posted in Commentary, News blog | Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anarchism, Tomás Ibáñez | 2 Comments