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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
If only there was no war?
From Pramen, Anarchism in Belarus (28/01/2022) … After the Russian occupation of Crimea and the deployment of troops on the territory of Donbass, part of the Belarusian opposition decided to give up trying to get rid of Lukashenko. The fear … Continue reading
International Anarchist Statement on Covid 19 Pandemic
February 7, 2022 No one is safe until we are all safe The Covid 19 pandemic has impacted every aspect of human life. It has had a devastating effect on people’s physical and mental health, social relations and communities, our … Continue reading
No escaping the state: the story of Lovett Fort-Whiteman
From Roarmag (13/01/2021), a reflection on the limits of the State as a vehicle for anti-racism, by William C. Anderson. The life of a Black radical who fled state violence in the US only to find it under a different … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-racism, anti-statism, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Soviet Union, State socialism, William C. Anderson
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“Anarchism” is just a name- a review of Anarchism and the Black Revolution and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
From Freedom Press (13/01/2021), a review of two recently published essays: Anarchism and the Black Revolution, by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin (Pluto Press) and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, by William Anderson (AK Press). In Summer 2017, … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, black anarchism, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, William Anderson
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For Elza Soares (1930-2022)
Não tenho medo de nada. Temos que ensinar o medo a ter medo de nós./I am not afraid of anything. We have to teach fear to be afraid of us. Elza Soares For her courage and resistance, for her rebellious … Continue reading
Shane Burley: Building Communities for a Fascist-Free Future
(From Roarmag magazine online and the 2021, 11th paper issue of Roar Magazine) The challenge for antifascists today is to build the capacity to act as a buffer for marginalized communities and the movements fighting for a new world. On August 17, 2019, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, mutual aid, Shane Burley, united states
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Freedom to Stay, Freedom to Move: An Interview with Harsha Walia
(From Roarmag magazine online and the 2021, 11th paper issue of Roar Magazine) To create a world where we all have a home, we have to dismantle the border regime — not just borders, but all bordering, all ordering and … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-nationalism, anti-statism, Harsha Walia, migration, no borders
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Forgotten Fighters: American Anarchist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
From the The Volunteer, the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade website, an excellent article (30/08/2017), by Kenyon Zimmer, on North American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War/Revolution. Among the almost 3,000 foreign anarchists who fought in the Spanish Civil … Continue reading
A tour of the CNT positions during the Civil War
We share below an important text on the changing positions of the anarchist CNT labour union during the Spanish Civil War/Revolution, published at Alasbarricadas (11/12/2021) and published in English at Anarkismo.net (20/12/2021). [We have made only minor revisions to the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, CNT, revolution, spain, the spanish revolution
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Jacques Rancière: Seven rules to help with the diffusion of racist ideas in france
With french presidential elections upon us (and with other european elections scheduled for this year), we share a short, but timely, piece by Jacques Rancière, on the less than surreptitious ways in which racism is played upon and promoted in … Continue reading →