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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Amedeo Bertolo: The Utopian Function in the Anarchist Imaginary
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anarchism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, May 68, Miguel Amorós, utopia
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Remembering the IWW
For this May Day, we turn to a page of working class and anarcho-syndicalist history, that of the Industrial Workers of the World Union; not however as a dead past, but as a permanent possibility for thinking revolt and revolution … Continue reading
Raoul Vaneigem: Revolutionary Theses
The new world takes shape in the wonderment that children teach to those who rediscover their own childhoods. It is up to us to learn to be reborn in the rebirth of the world. Raoul Vaneigem In a recent text … Continue reading
Amedeo Bertolo: The subversive weed
In the 1970s, Amedeo Bertolo engaged with newly emergent political concepts and movements which seemed both to recuperate older anarchist thought and practice, as well as to leave anarchism behind. For Bertolo, the concern was not to dismiss the new … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anarchism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós, self-management
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The Paris Commune: Franco “Bifo” Berardi
A second interview from the Planetary Commune project, an interview with “Bifo” on the Paris Commune of 1871 and its present resonances.
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Tagged Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Paris Commune, revolution
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The Paris Commune: Antonio Negri
An interview with Antonio Negri by Niccolò Cuppini, as part of the Planetary Commune project. (The interview is also available in spanish and french). However much we may hesitate before Negri’s Marxism – his almost exclusive attention to Marxist theorisations … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, occupy the city, Paris Commune, revolution, Toni Negri
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Greece: “Our Hatred for the Police Will Bring Us Together”
From the CrimethInc. Collective (07/04/2021)… It is the beginning of April and the mental impact of the lockdown has become even more surreal as the seasons change. The acts of resistance over the past few weeks have been both beautiful … Continue reading
Lautréamont: Poetic-political resonances
Jusqu’à nos temps, la poésie fit une route fausse; s’élevant jusqu’au ciel ou rampant jusqu’à terre, elle a méconnu les principes de son existence, et a été, non sans raison, constamment bafouée par les honnêtes gens. Elle n’a pas été … Continue reading
Capitalism is the pandemic: María Galindo
María Galindo shared this text with the media collective Lavaca (13/02/2021) and the magazine MU (both attached to the Universidad de Lavaca, argentina) , a text without prophetic ambitions, but which rather tries to think about the post-pandemic from a position of … Continue reading
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Tagged bolivia, María Galindo, Security State, State and Capital, State and terror
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John Holloway: We have no answers; we have questions. Urgent ones
From Roarmag (01/05/2021) … We do not know how to stop the planetary destruction caused by capital — but by asking the right questions we can find our way forward together. We live in a failed system. It is becoming … Continue reading →