Category Archives: News blog

Brazil: Only Revolt Can Bring Down Bolsonaro

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (12/08/2021) … Ahead of the 2022 elections, Brazil is now reprising the same dramatic showdown that the United States faced in 2020. As the pandemic intensifies alongside corruption scandals and the unrestrained plundering of Indigenous lands, … Continue reading →

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Tunisia: “We ourselves don’t have a people”

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From lundi matin #299, 09/08/2021 … On July 25th, in the evening of a day of demonstrations, Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the prime minister, temporarily suspended parliament, lifted the immunity of its members and announced that he would take … Continue reading →

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Cuban Anarchists on the Protests of July 11

Posted on July 24, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. Collective (22/07/2021) … To explore the causes and implications of the wave of protests that broke out in Cuba on July 11, we present two interviews with Cuban anarchists and a statement from an anarchist initiative in Cuba. Introduction: … Continue reading →

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Colombia: how the bodies of the disappeared appear

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

For several weeks now, they have begun to appear in the rivers, mainly in the Cauca and in various areas where there has been a strong social mobilisation, bodies of young people killed and dismembered, many of them in plastic … Continue reading →

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For Samuel Luiz; with all LGBTQI people

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

In the early hours of the 3rd of July, 24 year old Samuel Luiz was beaten to death outside a nightclub by a dozen people in La Coruña, Galicia. The motivation would appear to be that he was gay. (The … Continue reading →

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For Horacio González (1944-2021)

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Political affinities very often transgress ideological borders; indeed, if they did not, politics would be far poorer, if not dead. Politics is the gathering together of singularities for collective life, in dissension. This post is in memory of the intellectual … Continue reading →

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Latin America: From ungovernability to chaos

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Raúl Zibechi is perhaps one of the most significant and lucid writers today on “social movements” in latin america. Below, we share a recent text authored by him, in translation. We also share a conference-conversation with Zibechi and Rita Segato … Continue reading →

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Chronicle of Cali, capital of the resistance

Posted on June 13, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

For those who may not of heard … Protests in Colombia that began in late April over a proposed tax hike have morphed into a generational outcry over the country’s deep-rooted inequalities. Fifty-eight people have died in six weeks of unrest … Continue reading →

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For Marc Tomsin (1950-2021)

Posted on June 12, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

There are those whose lives are testimonies to anarchism. Marc Tomsin’s was one such life. We share below a translation of an entry in the Dictionnaire des anarchistes dedicated to him, a letter of remembrance by Raoul Vaneigem, and links … Continue reading →

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The ZAD of Notre Dame des Landes: Resisting by building

Posted on June 6, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

“News” from the Notre-Dames-des-Landes ZAD (zad for ever blog, 14/05/2021) … A lighthouse to cancel the end of the world In the fields of Notre Dame des Landes, in western France, stands a disobedient lighthouse. It was built far from … Continue reading →

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