Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Statement of the ABC Belarus on the war in Ukraine

From the anarchist black cross belarus (10/06/2022) … A full-scale war in Ukraine has been going on for over three months now. The anarchist movement has responded to the Russian invasion in different ways during these three months – some … Continue reading

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For Paula Rego (1935-2022)

It seems to me that what you are often drawn to are the half-hidden stories – the stories that we can, as we look at your work, continue to unriddle in our heads. Is it possible to paint a secret? … Continue reading

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Mutual aid against Putin (III)

We continue to share below film-maker and journalist Alexis Daloumis’ ongoing news reports and interviews in ukraine, this time on mutual aid work in the city of Kharkiv. (from Freedom News 01/06/2022). The fist two reports we shared focused on anarchist solidarity … Continue reading

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The FAGC’s breakfast programme

News from the FAGC – Federación Anarquista de Gran Canaria (01/06/2022) … The Canary Islands has one of the highest levels of child poverty in Europe. 35% of the minors residing on the Islands are malnourished. This statistic, and this … Continue reading

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Jesse Cohn: Demodernizing Anarchism

Decolonising anarchism, according to Jesse Cohn, amounts to freeing it from its modernist assumptions: that culture is opposed to nature, that human culture progresses by an expanding autonomy from the heteronomy of nature, a progress grounded in the technological dominion … Continue reading

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The folly of grande illusions

Once again, by way of Lundi Matin (#341, 30/05/2022), we share below the third episode of Diamant Palace, with Alain Damasio et Vinciane Despret, from Le Biais Vert (available with english language subtitles). For the first episode, click here. “A robot may not … Continue reading

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No one will be left alone

From the Anarchist Black Cross Belarus (28/05/2022) … It’s been almost two years since the 2020 protests in Belarus. The anarchist movement, just like the rest of activists and jounalists, has faced the biggest crackdown ever. Many activists had to … Continue reading

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Peter Lamborn Wilson: Communities of Resistance

We share, once again, an excellent video interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson/Hakim Bey dedicated to communities of resistance; a rich summary of Wilson’s work, keeping alive a non-ideological, open anarchism.

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For Peter Lamborn Wilson/Hakim Bey (1945-2022)

… the TAZ is in some sense a tactic of disappearance. Hakim Bey Peter Lamborn Wilson or Hakim Bey coined the phrase “Temporary Autonomous Zone” to refer to autonomous communities of conviviality, of freedom and equality, creating thereby a different … Continue reading

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Lucy Parsons’ anarchism

The philosophy of anarchism is included in the word “Liberty,” yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else that are conducive to progress. No barriers whatever to human progression, to thought, or investigation are placed by anarchism; nothing … Continue reading

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