Category Archives: Commentary

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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Amedeo Bertolo: The subversive weed

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

In the 1970s, Amedeo Bertolo engaged with newly emergent political concepts and movements which seemed both to recuperate older anarchist thought and practice, as well as to leave anarchism behind. For Bertolo, the concern was not to dismiss the new … Continue reading →

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The Paris Commune: Franco “Bifo” Berardi

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

A second interview from the Planetary Commune project, an interview with “Bifo” on the Paris Commune of 1871 and its present resonances.

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The Paris Commune: Antonio Negri

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

An interview with Antonio Negri by Niccolò Cuppini, as part of the Planetary Commune project. (The interview is also available in spanish and french). However much we may hesitate before Negri’s Marxism – his almost exclusive attention to Marxist theorisations … Continue reading →

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Lautréamont: Poetic-political resonances

Posted on April 5, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Jusqu’à nos temps, la poésie fit une route fausse; s’élevant jusqu’au ciel ou rampant jusqu’à terre, elle a méconnu les principes de son existence, et a été, non sans raison, constamment bafouée par les honnêtes gens. Elle n’a pas été … Continue reading →

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