Category Archives: Commentary

David Berry: Kropotkin’s Great French Revolution

Posted on December 24, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From Robert Graham’s Anarchism Weblog, reflections on Peter Kropotkin’s newly published The Great French Revolution, by David Berry … PM Press is publishing a new edition of Peter Kropotkin’s The Great French Revolution (originally published in 1909), with an introduction by David … Continue reading →

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Toni Morrison: Racism and fascism

Posted on December 23, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

A recent article in The Guardian by the north american philosopher, Jason Stanley, offers an informed reading of the emerging fascism in the united states. If we do not embrace Stanley’s liberal politics, what this latter lacks is made up … Continue reading →

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For bell hooks (1952-2021)

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that’s been a place of hope. bell hooks bell hooks … Continue reading →

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Fascism as the “reconquest”: Éric Zemmour’s political crusade

Posted on December 5, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

A breath of African air sweeps them [the Visigoths] from the Peninsula (…) I will be told that, despite this, we knew how to complete our glorious eight centuries of Reconquest. And to this I naively reply that I do … Continue reading →

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The anarchy of a music: Niño de Elche

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

El Grito La elipse de un grito, va de monte a monte. Desde los olivos, será un arco iris negro sobre la noche azul. ¡Ay! Como un arco de viola, el grito ha hecho vibrar largas cuerdas del viento. ¡Ay! … Continue reading →

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10 years of neighbourhood anarchism: The FAGC

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

We translated and published our first post dedicated to the Federación Anarquista Gran Canaria in May of 2013. We have since tried modestly and from a distance to follow the remarkable activity of those who have made the Federación and … Continue reading →

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Anarchy among india’s farmers: The story of an insurrection against the state

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (19/11/2021) … In the following report, Pranav Jeevan P1 explores the conflict between the farmers and the far-right government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the character of the movement that the farmers initiated, and the means by … Continue reading →

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The “forgotten fight” for prison abolition in France

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

I am often asked — What reforms of prison I should propose; but now, as twenty-five years ago, I really do not see how prisons could be reformed. They must be pulled down. Peter Kropotkin, Prisons: Universities of Crime There … Continue reading →

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Leo Tolstoy: Reading the ecological crisis as the sign of slavery

Posted on November 13, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Electric lights and telephones and exhibitions are excellent, and so are all the pleasure-gardens, with concerts and performances, and all the cigars, and match-boxes, and braces, and motor cars, but they may all go to perdition, and not they alone, … Continue reading →

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Solidarity with Gabriel Pombo da Silva and all anarchist prisoners

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

‘There is nothing to reform’ (words from Gabriel Pombo da Silvia via culmine, translated by war on society and published with the Anarchist Library): I am not so naive as to believe that what I am living here is something exceptional… and since “the … Continue reading →

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