Category Archives: Commentary

Anarchist voices against Putin

Posted on April 21, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

We share below an excellent video by film-maker and journalist Alexis Daloumis, who gathers together a series of interviews with north-east european anarchists on the russian invasion of ukraine (from Freedom News 19/04/2022) …

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Simone Weil: the Iliad is the purest and the loveliest of mirrors

Posted on April 16, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

Perhaps all men, by the very act of being born, are destined to suffer violence; yet this is a truth to which circumstance shuts men’s eyes. The strong are, as a matter of fact, never absolutely strong, nor are the … Continue reading →

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Ukraine and the ethical uncertainty of war

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

So that the Alexanders, Carnots, Humberts, and others should not be murdered, but it should be explained to them that they are themselves murderers, and, chiefly, they should not be allowed to kill people: men should refuse to murder at … Continue reading →

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And after the war?

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

Reflections on the prospects for Social Struggles in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, by Vladimir Platonenko and published in english by the CrimethInc. collective (31/03/2020) … The Russian invasion of Ukraine has thrown Eastern Europe into disorder, disrupting an already volatile … Continue reading →

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For Pier Paolo Pasolini

Posted on April 3, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birthday … . . . Take a few steps and you’re on the Appiaor Tuscolana, where all is lifefor all. But to be this life’saccomplice, better to knowno style … Continue reading →

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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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