Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Memory and History: On the Poverty of Remembering and Forgetting the Judeocide

From the Verso Books Blog (19/06/2026) On what would have been Arno Mayer’s 100th birthday, we’re republishing Arno Mayer’s Memory and History, an expanded speech defending his practice of history, featured as afterword to Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

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Two Prosecutors: A film by Sergei Loznitsa

From lundimatin #525 (23/06/2026) At the start of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s film, Two Prosecutors (2025), two NKVD Chekists – torturers working in a “special detention” centre – exchange a joke that makes them laugh heartily. The prison commander tells … Continue reading

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Gays, Crazies, and Motherfuckers: Anarchists in the Stonewall Uprising

From the CrimethInc. collective (17/06/2026) Towards a Queer History of Riots and Affinity Group Organizing What can today’s rebels learn from the Stonewall riots? Why did the uprising have such an impact? To answer these questions, we explore the previously … Continue reading

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The Revolution Nationalists Cannot Join

From Ill Will (21/06/2026) In this conversation, Ralf Ruckus talks to Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020), about the emergence of nation states, the construction of the “migrant,” the role … Continue reading

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EU votes to speed up deportations

Removal of undocumented people becomes easier as far-right international continues to rise Blade Runner (Freedom News, 22/06/2026) An alliance of centre-right and far-right lawmakers won a vote for anti-immigration enforcement measures in the European Parliament last week. The Return Regulationis designed … Continue reading

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Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland

Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe Nikita Ivansky (Freedom News, 21/06/2026) Bashkir artist Semyon Skrepetsky was shot dead in Eastern Poland on 15 June. His last act before being assassinated was … Continue reading

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Ukrainian artist who died fighting Russians

“True anarchists share their people’s hardest struggles” by Vira Kravchuk (Euromaidan Press, 12/08/2025) Davyd Chychkan, a Ukrainian artist known for his anarchist political views and socially engaged artwork, died 9 August from wounds sustained while repelling a Russian infantry assault … Continue reading

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Jacques Rancière: “We are living through a counter-revolution”

A conversation between Jacques Rancière and Maria Kakogianni (From lundimatin #515, 08/04/2026) In a foreword to the translation and publication in Greece of a collection of texts by Jacques Rancière [1], Maria Kakogianni – whose book Sous le ciel étoilé, … Continue reading

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Under the starry sky, a summer’s night; Reflections on anarchy and revolution

Pascal once said, in his magnificent style: “The universe is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”[1] Could there be a more striking image of infinity? After him, let us say, a little more precisely: the universe … Continue reading

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The Solidarity Assembly for Imprisoned Fugitives and Persecuted Combatants

From the CrimethInc. collective (11/06/2026) An Interview on Repression and Resistance in Greece For June 11, the day of International Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners, we want to offer a glimpse of the repression that the anarchist movement is facing in … Continue reading

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