Category Archives: Commentary

The occupier and the occupied

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Understanding demands words, even before the obscene. We share an essay by Ghassan Salhab, originally published in french with lundi matin (#288, 17/05/2021) …

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Colombia’s democratic facade is crumbling to pieces

Posted on May 16, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From Roarmag (13/05/2021), a reflection on the recent uprising in colombia by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.. The state’s brutal response to a one-day general strike has sparked weeks of protests in Colombia, resulting in dozens of deaths. The time for … Continue reading →

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Spain’s 15M: The passion of rebellion

Posted on May 16, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

We are all dead, and we spoiled the world before we died. There is nothing left. Nothing but dreams.  Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven Spain’s 15M was a dream, it was the feeling that the world could be … Continue reading →

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The 10th anniversary of 15M

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

What is the strength of the weak? … the strength of the weak passes through the activation of bodies and the interweaving of ties, through the autonomous choice about times and spaces, for the value of equality and plurality. It … Continue reading →

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Red Shadows

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

In the early hours of the 28th of April, French police descended upon the residences of 10 exiled Italian political militants of the 1970s. Seven were immediately arrested, an eighth would later turn himself in, and the whereabouts of two … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben: On the government of the faceless and the deathless

Posted on May 4, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

The Face and Death [Il volto e la morte – text published in the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung“, April 30th, 2021 and in Quodlibet] It seems that in the new planetary order that is gaining form two things, apparently unrelated to … Continue reading →

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John Holloway: We have no answers; we have questions. Urgent ones

Posted on May 2, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From Roarmag (01/05/2021) … We do not know how to stop the planetary destruction caused by capital — but by asking the right questions we can find our way forward together. We live in a failed system. It is becoming … Continue reading →

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Amedeo Bertolo: The Utopian Function in the Anarchist Imaginary

Posted on May 2, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, … Continue reading →

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Remembering the IWW

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

For this May Day, we turn to a page of working class and anarcho-syndicalist history, that of the Industrial Workers of the World Union; not however as a dead past, but as a permanent possibility for thinking revolt and revolution … Continue reading →

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Raoul Vaneigem: Revolutionary Theses

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

The new world takes shape in the wonderment that children teach to those who rediscover their own childhoods. It is up to us to learn to be reborn in the rebirth of the world. Raoul Vaneigem In a recent text … Continue reading →

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