Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Jacques Rancière: Emmanuel Macron’s republican order

While the French people strike, protest against, and decry Macron’s law raising the pension age, Macron remains unmoved, immune to the people’s demands. This, Jacques Rancière argues, inaugurates a new era for the French state: one of brutal police repression. … Continue reading

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Remembering Cooper Andrews

Editorial honoring the life of Cooper “Harris” Andrews, an anarchist from Cleveland, Ohio who was killed fighting in Ukraine against Russian invasion forces. (It’s going down, 04/05/2023) On April 19th, 2023, Cooper (Harris) Andrews, 26, passed alongside three other anarchist … Continue reading

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Dmitry Petrov: Four Months in an Anti-Authoritarian Platoon in Ukraine

We share below a reflection by the russian anarchist Dmitry Petrov, recently killed fighting on the Bakhmut front against the russian invasion of ukraine, from July 2022. Its importance requires no comment from us, except to say that it raises … Continue reading

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In Memory of Dmitry Petrov

From the CrimethInc. collective (03/05/2023), we share an incomplete biography and translation of the anarchist Dmitry Petrov’s work. On April 19, 2023, three anarchists were killed in battle near Bakhmut: an American named Cooper Andrews, an Irishman named Finbar Cafferkey, … Continue reading

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Colectivo Situaciones: Twelve Hypotheses about Counter-power

We formerly shared the archive of the writings of the argentine based Colectivo Situaciones, posted at the online website lobo suelto! The importance of this work for the understanding of events in argentina, and beyond, leads us this time to share a recent … Continue reading

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To Hell and Back: Anarchists Under Attack in Ukraine

From the zine, lib.edist.ro … This zine is dedicated to the memories of Yury Samoilenko, Sergey Petrovich, Igor Volohov, Finbar Cafferkey, Tisha, Dmitry ‘Ilya’ Petrov, and Andrew Cooper, may they all rest in power! On 24 February 2022, one man, … Continue reading

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France: Reading events at Sainte-Soline and Serge Duteuil-Graziani

Serge Duteuil-Graziani came out of a coma, a month after being seriously injured during the demonstration against mega-reservoir in Sainte-Soline on March 25, 2023. But his prognosis remains critical. We begin with a press release of April 26, from his … Continue reading

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Portugal: Histories of rebellion, histories of anarchism

Every year, since 1974, the portuguese state, through its politicians and institutional “nobility”, commemorates the 24 of April, as the birthday of the country’s democracy. Ignored, forgotten, brushed away, is the “revolution” occasioned by the military coup d’état of that … Continue reading

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Jacques Ellul: The necessary revolution

… man must refuse to be his role, and revolution must attack all roles. In other words … revolution acts not only against organizations, institutions, systems, and structures, but also, and concurrently, against each member of this society, his behavior, … Continue reading

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Lessons for Anarchists About the Ukraine War from Past Revolutions

We share a historical-political essay on the war in Ukraine, by Wayne Price, from the latest edition of the Black Flag Anarchist Review. Lessons for Anarchists About the Ukraine War from Past Revolutions Wayne Price (BlackFlag Anarchist Review Volume 3 … Continue reading

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