Category Archives: Commentary

Nature doesn’t exist

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

By way of Lundi Matin (#332, 28/03/2022), we share below the first episode of Diamant Palace, from Le Biais Vert (available with english language subtitles). In an occupied theater, from where a pirate radio broadcasts, we take stock of the … Continue reading →

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Serge Quadruppani: The chaos of empire, the paranoia of empire

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

From Lundi Matin (#329, 07/03/2022), a reflection on our times of crises, by Serge Quadruppani. … Notes on the Nature of the Present Crisis and How to Tackle It No sooner had the Covid-alarm started to subside that the sirens … Continue reading →

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A very long winter

Posted on March 20, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

Putin’s justifications for the invasion of Ukraine – to bring a halt to the genocide of Donbass Russians by the Ukrainian military and para-militaries, de-Nazification and the defence of Russia –, a war for which he has not hesitated to … Continue reading →

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The Syrian Cantina in Montreuil: Organizing in Exile

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (15/03/2022) … How Refugees Can Continue Revolutionary Struggle in Foreign Lands Eleven years ago, on March 15, 2011, protests broke out in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Over the following years, a revolution took … Continue reading →

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Ukraine in Syria, Syria in Ukraine

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

News that the Syrian government is recruiting soldiers from its own army to join the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a reminder – for those who may have forgotten – of Putin’s earlier and extremely bloody intervention to help put … Continue reading →

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Mykhailo Drahomanov: Anarchist echoes from Ukraine’s past

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

Olenin had entered into the life of the Cossack village so fully that his past seemed quite foreign to him. As to the future, especially a future outside the world in which he was now living, it did not interest … Continue reading →

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Amador Fernández-Savater: To rethink war

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

From Lobo Suelto! (15/03/2022) … To rethink war, what does it mean? To learn to look at the world strategically. The news, rights, the laws, the speeches, the images… To take them as operations, as forces (of occupation or resistance): … Continue reading →

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The Invasion Of Ukraine: Anarchist Interventions And Geopolitical Changes

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

by Peter Gelderloos (It’s Going Down 14/03/2022) … The current war in Ukraine is difficult to grapple with and not only for those of us with friends and comrades who are over there, fighting or surviving, or who have already … Continue reading →

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Mike Davis: Thanatos Triumphant

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

From Side Car/New Left Review (07/03/2022). Does hegemony require a grand design? In a world where a thousand gilded oligarchs, billionaire sheiks, and Silicon deities rule the human future, we should not be surprised to discover that greed breeds reptilian … Continue reading →

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Is pacifism a thing of the past?

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

A reflection on anti-militarist politics before nation state war, before the russian invasion of ukraine, by Àlex Guillamón, for El salto diario (09/03/2022). Whoever invented the term nation-state surely did not intend to describe reality so literally. But, certainly, today … Continue reading →

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