Author Archives: Julius Gavroche

Why we don’t vote

Everything that can be said about the suffrage may be summed up in a sentence. To vote is to give up your own power. To elect a master or many, for a long or short time, is to resign one’s … Continue reading

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Colectivo Situaciones: Complete works

The posting by the online website lobo suelto! of an archive of the writings the argentine based Colectivo Situaciones, is the occasion to return to the “theoretical” work of this group and its “reflection” in the 2001-3 insurrection in the … Continue reading

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The Belarus insurrection

From the CrimethInc. Collective … Belarus: Anarchists in the Uprising against the Dictatorship: An Interview Starting on the night of Sunday, August 9, in response to an election widely deemed to be rigged, a massive protest movement has broken out … Continue reading

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For Stuart Christie (1946-2020)

Anarchism swept us away completely, because it demanded everything of us and promised everything to us. There was no remote corner of life that it did not illumine … or so it seemed to us … shot though with contradictions, … Continue reading

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Kutuzov: For a destituent strategy today

From lundi matin #249, 29/06/2020 … “Even those who denounce the permanent state of emergency do not hesitate to repeat the same slogans, to make the same appeals as the “decision-makers”, who now work shamelessly and in the open for … Continue reading

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Remembering Martin Sostre

To return to past struggles, to recall those who gave their life to them, is not to engage in museumification or idol worship. It is to remember today that those pasts remain our present, that those who fought are still … Continue reading

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Dignity: On The George Floyd Rebellion

From It’s going down (06/08/2020) … A look at both the historical context within the George Floyd rebellion and how current experiments within it might expand. The storming of the Third Precinct lifted the veil of fear. As it went … Continue reading

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Élisée Reclus: The ecology of beauty

There where land becomes ugly, where all poetry disappears from the landscape, imaginations are extinguished, spirits are impoverished, routine and servility overtake the soul and set it on the path to torpor and death. Élisée Reclus, Concerning the Awareness of … Continue reading

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In solidarity with Monica Caballero and Francisco Solar

From the CrimethInc. Collective (28/07/2020) … A New Wave of Repression in Chile: And Why It Matters in the United States On July 24, the Chilean state raided three homes and arrested two anarchists on bomb-related charges, Monica Caballero and … Continue reading

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Lebanon: The state of things

From lundi matin #250, 23/07/2020 … Will the confinement and the ceasefire get the better of the Lebanese uprising? Will the omnipresence of security be able to bridge the chasm into which the population seems to sink deeper every day? … Continue reading

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