Category Archives: Commentary

Against Trump: J20 Disrupting the taking of power

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as president of the united states, and in solidarity, we share the calls for protest …  

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Vio.Me, Greece: Creating solidarities within and beyond factory walls

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

In the past, we have shared, in the english language, news and reflections on the Vio.Me factory occupation-coorperative, in Thessaloniki.  If the occupation remains legally precarious, Vio.Me now stands as an example in europe not only of workers’ self-management, but … Continue reading →

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Nietzsche and anarchy

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

I don’t say that my values and desires are the right or true ones. For instance, I don’t say that it is right or true to love anarchy and hate domination. I affirm my values. This affirmation is not like … Continue reading →

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On the road

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Nature is always historical and capitalism (as all social relations of the past) is always in nature. There is no pristine, untouched nature to return to today (against neo-primitivisms), nor a non-human nature to serve as standard for our development … Continue reading →

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On the death of a portuguese “revolutionary”: Mario Soares and the inseparability of ideology and reality

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

For every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably. Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History It is a mistake to understand ideology as something … Continue reading →

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For John Berger (1926-2017)

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

For John Berger, for all that he taught us about how to see …

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Tapping the rhythms: Moondog

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

I find the greatest freedom in the stricture of a form that paradoxes abnormality within a norm. I would bow down before just one– one who bows before none. I should know who that one might be who could do … Continue reading →

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For the syrian revolution

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Without any pretense of a well founded critical evaluation of political events in syria, in the context of a multi-front civil conflict between imperialist and proto-state actors, we share two anarchist reflections on the country’s revolution, in the wake of … Continue reading →

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Anarchism in the streets: Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria (FAGC)

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Get into the neighbourhoods, don’t be afraid of hostility, suspicion, quarrels and base passions, that, I assure you, you will encounter.  Take advantage rather of the fact that the virtual recuperation penetrates even into those with an empty stomach.  Seek … Continue reading →

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Renzo Novatore: My iconoclastic individualism

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Anarchy is not a social form, but a method of individuation. No society will concede to me more than a limited freedom and a well-being that it grants to each of its members. But I am not content with this … Continue reading →

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