Category Archives: Commentary

The Syrian revolution: Bearing witness to the impossible

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

We share below a reflection on and, in its own way, a testimonial of the Syrian revolution, by Catherine Coquio (Lundi Matin #137, March 12, 2018). This is followed by a more recent video recorded interview with her (in french), … Continue reading →

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi: On the mutation of desire

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

On the mutation of desire Franco “Bifo” Berardi (Nero 15/12/2022 – Lobo Suelto! 23/12/2022) I started reading Félix Guattari in 1974. I was in a barracks in southern Italy, when military service was compulsory for young men of sound mind … Continue reading →

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Punk—Dangerous Utopia

Posted on December 15, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (13/12/2022). Punk—Dangerous Utopia Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism How did punk emerge out of the countercultures of the 1960s that it claimed to reject? Why did it play such a central role in the … Continue reading →

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: A way of seeing, a way of living

Posted on December 11, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is … Continue reading →

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Staughton Lynd: Thinking history, doing politics, from below

Posted on November 24, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

What we are about is a new set of values, the practice of solidarity. Capitalism developed within feudalism as the practice of the idea of contract. What was imagined was a society in which free and equal members of civil … Continue reading →

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For Hebe de Bonafini (1928-2022) and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Posted on November 23, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

Those who have lost whom they love, those who say “I have a right to cry, and I still don’t cry because I need to know where and how my loved ones died”, are linking demands for justice with the … Continue reading →

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Abortion without Borders

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

N’oubliez jamais qu’il suffira d’une crise politique, économique ou religieuse pour que les droits des femmes soient remis en question. Ces droits ne sont jamais acquis. Vous devrez rester vigilantes votre vie durant. Simone de Beauvoir From the CrimethInc. collective (14/11/2022) … … Continue reading →

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The Man Who Died, following D.H. Lawrence

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

“I don’t know what I shall do,” he said. “When I am healed, I shall know better. But my mission is over, and my teaching is finished, and death has saved me from my own salvation. Oh, Madeleine, I want … Continue reading →

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Ukraine: Trying to see beyond our myths

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

In response to a recent text by anarchists entitled Anarchist Antimilitarism and Myths About the War in Ukraine (antimilitarismus.noblogs.org and the Anarchist Library) and continuing with an earlier reflection on “revolutionary defeatism“, we share an interview below with Antti Rautiainen … Continue reading →

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Left Electoralism, Fascist Direct Action, and Anti-Fascist Resistance – The Brazilian Elections of 2022

Posted on November 7, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (06/11/2022) … The 2022 elections pitted the authoritarian nationalism of Jair Bolsonaro against the institutional leftism of Workers Party candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Each of these rival strategies for governance presented itself as the … Continue reading →

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