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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
The Paris Commune: The Animated Engravings of a Revolution
In an extraordinary cinematographic labour, Raphaël Meyssan adapted the three volumes of his eponymous graphic novel, for which he had collected hundreds of engravings in newspapers and books of the time. From this patient quest for archives – eight years … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Walt Whitman
To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire Courage yet, my brother or my sister!Keep on—Liberty is to be subserv’d whatever occurs;That is nothing that is quell’d by one or two failures, or any number of failures,Or by the indifference or ingratitude of … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: William Morris
The revolution itself will raise those for whom the revolution must be made. From William Morris … Why We Celebrate the Commune of Paris (Source: “Why We Celebrate the Commune of Paris Commonweal, Vol 3, No. 62, 19 March 1887, p. 89-90; Transcribed: by … Continue reading
Syria: Remembering a revolution
We are no less than the Paris commune workers: they resisted for 70 days and we are still going on for a year and a half. Omar Aziz, 2012 The “Arab Spring” as revolution risks falling into oblivion, reduced to … Continue reading
Resisting Greece’s rapid descent into authoritarianism
From Roarmag (23/03/2021) … Over the past few weeks, the streets of Athens have been filled with thousands of people, despite the country being in lockdown since the beginning of November. There are protests every day, in many neighborhoods and … Continue reading
For Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021)
Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although I am out of prison, I continue to live inside a prison of another sort, one without steel … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: In film
The Paris Commune of 1871 will have a life well beyond the historical events that mark the moment, politically, but also in various forms of artistic-political expression. The examples are many (music, poetry, literature, and so on), but in this … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Situationist International
“…it is time we examine the Commune not just as an outmoded example of revolutionary primitivism, all of whose mistakes can easily be overcome, but as a positive experiment whose whole truth has yet to be rediscovered and fulfilled.“ The … Continue reading
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The Paris Commune: Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkman sees in both the Paris Commune of 1871 and the Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921 a failure of foresight and nerve. In both cases, what was demanded was aggressive action against the State. And what occurred was passivity, lack … Continue reading
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David Graeber: After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep
From Jacobin magazine … In an essay penned shortly before his death, David Graeber argued that post-pandemic, we can’t slip back into a reality where the way our society is organized — to serve every whim of a small handful … Continue reading →