Category Archives: Commentary

G.A.R.I.: Grupos de Acción Revolucionaria Internacionalista

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

The Grupos de Acción Revolucionaria Internacionalista/Internationalist Revolutionary Action Groups (GARI) were a series of autonomous anti-capitalist groups, largely of anarchist inspiration, which coordinated to carry out armed agitation and propaganda actions after the self-dissolution of the Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL), … Continue reading →

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Amador Fernández-Savater: Reaching for a politics of pure potentiality, or trying to keep power at bay

Posted on July 7, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

One never takes power, it is power which takes us. Tomás Ibáñez We follow Peter Gelderloos’ critical evaluation of spain’s “radical” municipalism with a more theoretical reflection, by Amador Fernández-Savater, on the political cycle in the country that began with … Continue reading →

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The wayward ways of “radical” municpalism in spain

Posted on July 7, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Peter Gelderloos’ critical appraisal of spain’s “municipalities of change” is timely. (Roarmag 02/07/2019) In the general municipal elections of 2015, various, large spanish cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, etc.) fell to coalitions that promising greater social and political justice, echoing an … Continue reading →

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Celebrating/remembering Emma Goldman

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From Robert Graham’s Anarchism Weblog … One thing that Donald Trump is daily proving is that lying and cheating remain, as always, the key to political success, something that Emma Goldman noted in her 1910 essay, “Anarchism: What It Really Stands For,” the keynote … Continue reading →

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Hong Kong: Anarchists in the Resistance to the Extradition Bill

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective, an interview with an anarchist collective in Hong Kong, on the ongoing protests against a proposed extradition law with china.

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Raoul Vaneigem: An appeal to life

Posted on June 23, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Photograph by Guillaume Amat (from the series open fields) On the occasion of Raoul Vaneigem’s most recent essay, Appel à la vie contre la tyrannie étatique et marchande, we share an interview, in translation, that he gave to the Ballast … Continue reading →

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Miguel Amorós: The new clothes of capitalist developmentalism

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

We share an intervention by Miguel Amorós in current ecology debates, from talks on 12 May 2019 at the book exchange fair in L’Orxa (Alicante) and on 18 May at the Biblioteca Social El Rebrot Bord, Albaida (Valencia). More significantly, … Continue reading →

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Why I am an anarchist: Benjamin Zephaniah

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

A testimonial by poet and writer Benjamin Zephaniah (from dogsection.org) …

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Anarchism is movement: Tomás Ibáñez (6)

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

In July of last year, we began the translation of Tomás Ibáñez’s Anarquismo es movimiento/Anarchism is movement. In the same month, we concluded the translation of the essay’s central chapters. With this post, we bring the labour to a conclusion, … Continue reading →

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The Stonewall riots and Pride at 50

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From the Working Class History collective, two excellent podcast episodes on the Stonewall riots and radical gay politics of the time and today. A further contribution to radicalising pride.

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