Category Archives: Commentary

Looting Back: An Account of the Ferguson Uprising

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. Collective (09/08/2019) …

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Anarchy beyond feminism

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Voices of revolutionary feminism; or the revolution that lies beyond all control … Rebellions and revolutions, overwhelm established identities, overflowing the confines of established social norms and roles. If insurrections begin in a place and time, they become insurrections precisely … Continue reading →

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The commodity and the making of “woman”

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Voices of revolutionary feminism … If we have little interest in the scholasticism and the baroque arcana of contemporary marxist theoretical debates, the wealth of marxist theory can be neither dismissed nor ignored. And debates around marxist inspired feminism are … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomist feminism

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Hence we must refuse housework as women’s work, as work imposed upon us, which we never invented, which has never been paid for, in which they have forced us to cope with absurd hours, 12 and 13 a day, in … Continue reading →

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Las mujeres libres of spain

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Voices of revolutionary feminism … We share two articles, a first on women in the spanish revolution and a second on the spanish anarchist organisation Mujeres Libres. And we close with the spanish film, Libertarias (1996).

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The anarchist feminism of Voltairine de Cleyre

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

… this ill-got thing you call morality, sealed with the seal of marriage … [is] … the consummation of immorality, impurity, and injustice. … every married woman … is a bonded slave, who takes her master’s name, her master’s bread, … Continue reading →

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For Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don’t love your eyes; they’d just … Continue reading →

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Anarchafeminist Manifesto

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Voices of revolutionary feminism … The origin of the Anarchafeminist Manifesto is in Norway. The Anarchafeminist Manifesto is the summary of the feminist political program unanimously agreed upon by the third congress of the Anarchist Federation of Norway, 1—7 of … Continue reading →

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Anarcho-Feminism: Two Statements

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Voices of revolutionary feminism … The Anarcho-Feminist Manifesto was written by Chicago Anarcho-Feminists. Blood of the Flower was written by Red Rosia and Black Maria of Black Rose Anarcho-Feminists, who in 1971 could be reached c/o The Women’s Centre, 46 Pleasant Street, Cambridge … Continue reading →

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Peggy Kornegger: Anarchism: The Feminist Connection

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Destroy capitalism. End patriarchy. Smash heterosexism. All are obviously essential tasks in the building of a new and truly human world. Marxists, other socialists, social anarchists, feminists – all would agree. But what the socialist, and even some feminists, leave … Continue reading →

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