Category Archives: Commentary

The Philippines: Rule by terror

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

From the Crimethinc. Collective … The New Terror Bill in the Philippines: Another Front in the Worldwide Struggle against Tyranny (19/07/2020) Yesterday, a new “anti-terror” law went into effect in the Philippines, marking another stage in the worldwide rise of … Continue reading →

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Morir un poco/To die a little

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

To be obliged to work will always be to die a little. To enrich others, to obey disgusting bosses, to run so as not to be late, to pretend to smile, to receive starvation wages: everything kills. To lose moments … Continue reading →

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Abel Paz (1921-2009): Memories of intensity, reflections on anarchy

Posted on July 5, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

Life, or the memory of peoples, cannot be measured by the number of years lived, but by life’s moments of intensity. We won the revolution, what we lost was the war. The revolution consisted in the fact that the workers … Continue reading →

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The Cop-Free Zone

Posted on July 4, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. Collective (02/07/2020)… The Cop-Free Zone: Reflections from Experiments in Autonomy around the US The cop-free zone is not the particular block or traffic circle or park. It is the shared commitment to defending a space and eliminating … Continue reading →

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Christian Jesús Ferrer: Anarchism, the antipodal star

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

A short and eloquent reflection on the meaning of “anarchism”, by Christian Jesús Ferrer (El Lokal) … There is nothing more mysterious than the fate of anarchism, an ideal that might seem exaggerated if it were not so extremely sensible. … Continue reading →

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The Floyd rebellion: pathway to a revolution?

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

Reflecting on the potential of the “Floyd rebellion”: an article by Kali Akuno published with Roarmag (30/06/2020). The article was originally published on the Wire, a project of the Progressive International. … The Floyd rebellion, if followed by a general strike and People’s … Continue reading →

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In praise of riots: From Stonewall to Minneapolis

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

Published with CrimethInc. Collective (28/06/2020) … Stonewall Means Riot Right Now: What the Queer Uprisings of 1969 Share with the George Floyd Protests of 2020 “Stonewall was a riot.” In the 51 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in … Continue reading →

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Cesare Battisti: The Plague

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

From lundi matin #249, 29/06/2020 … In this text somewhere between poetry and politics, Cesare Battisti takes as a starting point Camus’ novel The Plague, to give us his contribution to the work barely started since the beginning of the … Continue reading →

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For Maurice Rajsfus

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

On dit que les révolutionnaires ne meurent jamais. Simplement, vers la fin, ils commencent à avoir mal aux genoux. Maurice Rajsfus The police have always been the essential element of a politics of rejection and exclusion, which hides economic and … Continue reading →

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John Holloway: Cascade of angers; a post-pandemic fantasy

Posted on June 28, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

From Roarmag (27/06/2020), an essay by John Holloway … We do not have the knee of a murderous policeman on our neck, but we, too, cannot breathe. We cannot breathe because capitalism is killing us.

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