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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
A state unmasks itself: Pablo Hasél and the repression of solidarity protests
As the protests continue into a third night against Pablo Hasél’s arrest … The King is naked. The authoritarian drift of the state Embat, Organització Llibertària de Catalunya/A las barricadas After the imprisonment of rapper Pablo Hasél for a song … Continue reading
With Pablo Hasél
With the arrest and incarceration of the rapper Pablo Hasél on Tuesday (16/02/2021) by the spanish authorities for the crimes of offending the crown and promoting terrorism under the country’s law on public security (Ley Orgánica de protección de la … Continue reading
In gratitude: For Chick Corea (1941-2021)
Music is our witness, and our ally. The ‘beat’ is the confession which recognises, changes, and conquers time. Then, history becomes a garment we can wear, and share, and not a cloak in which to hide; and time becomes a … Continue reading
Mutual Aid in Puerto Rico
Mutual aid works within the fissures and cracks of state and corporate management; it develops within spaces partially outside the reach of their power. It has the capacity to weave relations of support and autonomy, thereby generating new subjectivities and … Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism and anti-colonialism, mutual aid, puerto rico, united states
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Tunisia: Rebellions, past and present
News and reflections from Tunisia shared with the CrimethInc. collective (09/02/2021) and a video called “Ten“, a record of some of the many voices of Tunisia’s rebellions produced by the Nawaat news magazine … Ten – Ten years after Tunisia’s … Continue reading
For Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021)
I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn:he was the spirit of gravity–through him all things fall.Not by wrath, but by laughter, do … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, Jean-Claude Carrière, surrealism
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Remembering a rebel: Peter Kropotkin
Educated men — “civilized,” as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or jailers. But, frankly, do you need them as much as you have been told … Continue reading
For Cecilia Mangini (1927-2021)
Italian photographer and documentary film director Cecilia Mangini died on January 21. What follows is a modest tribute to an artisan-artist for whom the making of images was always an act of engagement with her subjects and her audience.
A political reflection on love
For the principle which ought to be the guide of men who would nobly live—that principle, I say, neither kindred, nor honour, nor wealth, nor any other motive is able to implant so well as love. Of what am I … Continue reading
Gilles Dauvé: The Year the World Went Viral
Reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic and capitalism, by Gilles Dauvé (posted on trop loin). Without fully embracing Dauvé’s “Marxism”, there is much here for thought … Until the early days of 2020, when they spoke of “viruses”, Westerners usually meant … Continue reading →