Category Archives: Commentary

Beware the wealthy who speak of changing the world

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

On the even of summit called The New Global Financing Pact, an open letter to the world appears … We are urgently working to deliver more for people and the planet. … We are urgently working to fight poverty and … Continue reading →

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From Ukraine to Palestine: The Poisons of Denialism

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

by David Finkel (Against the Current) Exploding over the past year, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s escalating violence and ethnic cleansing in Palestine have become two centers of a deepening global crisis. For the international left, the Ukraine … Continue reading →

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“Anti-Sex” and the Real Sexual Politics of the Right

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

by Lee Shevek (butchanarchy.medium.com/The Anarchist Library) So common is the conceptualization of reactionaries as having “anti-sex” politics that it is hardly remarked upon. They hate sex workers, they hate it when women and other marginalized genders have a lot of … Continue reading →

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Remembering the Stonewall riots of 1969

Posted on June 15, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

… if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves (compare Rep.), they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all … Continue reading →

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Ukraine: Voices of resistance

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Step forward: we hearThat you are a good man.You cannot be bought, but the lightningWhich strikes the house, alsoCannot be bought.You hold to what you said.But what did you say?You are honest, you say your opinion.Which opinion?You are brave.Against whom?You … Continue reading →

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Remembering the Gezi Park/Taksim Square uprising of 2013

Posted on June 6, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

They are the enemies of hope, my love, of flowing water and the fruitful tree, of life growing and unfolding. Death as branded them – Rotting teeth, decaying flesh – and soon they will be dead and gone for good. … Continue reading →

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War in Ukraine: An anarchist debate (continued)

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

As Wayne Price writes, the anarchist debate around the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the anarchist response to it continues; a debate that we continue to follow. Retrieved from anarkismo.net/article/32774 (28/05/2023). Anarchists Support Self-Determination for Ukraine: What Did Bakunin Say About … Continue reading →

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Gilles Dauvé: Peace is War

Posted on May 25, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Endeavouring to navigate the tempest of war in ukraine, with Gilles Dauvé … (published at the PM Press website, The Anarchist Library, and originally in french at troploin). “Small countries, such as Belgium, should be well-advised to rally to the … Continue reading →

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Jacques Rancière: Emmanuel Macron’s republican order

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

While the French people strike, protest against, and decry Macron’s law raising the pension age, Macron remains unmoved, immune to the people’s demands. This, Jacques Rancière argues, inaugurates a new era for the French state: one of brutal police repression. … Continue reading →

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Dmitry Petrov: Four Months in an Anti-Authoritarian Platoon in Ukraine

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

We share below a reflection by the russian anarchist Dmitry Petrov, recently killed fighting on the Bakhmut front against the russian invasion of ukraine, from July 2022. Its importance requires no comment from us, except to say that it raises … Continue reading →

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