Category Archives: Commentary

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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Sabotaging gender, feminism and capital

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

We share below an essay by a friend of Autonomies, a conference paper presented at the CIEG II International Congress: Gender, Feminist and Woman’s Studies: Reflexivity, Resistance and Action (July 24-26), at the ISCSP – Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais … Continue reading →

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Élisée Reclus: Why We Are Anarchists

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

There is morality only in freedom. Élisée Reclus We share a text by Élisée Reclus that is perhaps ageless. (From Robert Graham’s Anarchist Weblog).

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Looking back-forward at the gilets jaunes: A taking stock

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

We share an unfinished debate on the yellow vests’ movement, on what is or was radical within it, and where it failed, if indeed it did so. Our caution here is dictated by the different positions in the exchange below. … Continue reading →

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Jacques Rancière: The singularity of rebellion and autonomy

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Démocratie veut dire d’abord cela : un gouvernement anarchique, fondé sur rien d’autre que sur l’absence de tout titre à gouverner. Jacques Rancière, La haine de la démocratie To share, the always timely reflections of Jacques Rancière. A question arises … Continue reading →

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Beyond violence and non-violence: Peter Gelderloos

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

… nonviolence, in its current manifestations, is based on falsified histories of struggle. It has implicit and explicit connections to white people’s manipulations of the struggles of people of color. Its methods are wrapped in authoritarian dynamics, and its results … Continue reading →

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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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