Category Archives: News blog

Utopia or submission: La Corrala la Utopia

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Capital is a system of social relations of extraction.  Its success is based on the appropriation of nature and of the collective of creativity of all of those who labour.  Whether it is land, energies housed beneath its surface, seas, … Continue reading →

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Amidst the art of May 68: L’Atelier Populaire de Paris

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Une action revolutionaire dans la culture ne saurait avoir pour but de traduire ou d’expliquer la vie, mais de l’élargir. Guy Debord L’œuvre d’art à venir, c’est la construction d’une vie passionnante. Raoul Vaneigem A l’atelier populaire, c’est un climat … Continue reading →

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Tales from the everyday of capitalism: Lavapiés, Madrid

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

At 7:20 in the morning, on the 31st if January, the riot police of the munincipal authorities of Madrid closed off the street, calle Tribulete in the neighbourhood of Lavapiés, to execute the eviction of Antonio Argobia, a 54 year … Continue reading →

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Bête et méchant: François Cavanna

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

La liberté consiste à faire tout ce que permet la longueur de la chaîne. François Cavanna François Cavanna, journalist, writer, artist, used the pen of satire and irony against all the "cons" that his times brought forward.  And for many, … Continue reading →

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A Troubadour of Rebellion: Pete Seeger

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

For Pete Seeger, communist militant, first in the Party, and then beyond it, singer and story teller of America’s working classes and poor, co-founder of The Almanac Singers, and later The Weavers, who passed away on the 27th of January, … Continue reading →

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Dancing politics

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

In memory of Jean Babilée, dancer and combatant of the French resistance, and who resisted always through creation, died on Thursday, January 30, at the age of 90.

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Okupying production: Kazova workers’ resistance

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

From Fatih Pinar, a video about the Kazova textile factory okupation in Istanbul, today a factory that continues to produce through workers' self-management.  Autonomy is constructed slowly, step by unpredictable step, in a movement in which the ends and the … Continue reading →

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Insurrection in the city: Gamonal Resists

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

…the revolution in our times has to be urban – or nothing. David Harvey, Rebel Cities The greater part of the human species now dwells in cities; more correctly, in urban spaces, which for the most part exist in a … Continue reading →

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The plurality of autonomy

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Autonomies are woven in different ways, at different levels.  The self-understanding of those who participate, the goals and means employed, may vary enormously.  It is far too easy then to criticise such initiatives from a puritanical and ultimately impotent ideological … Continue reading →

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Revolution as Destituent Power

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Only if we’re able to disentangle the future … from the traps of growth and investment, will we find an escape from the vicious subjugation of life, wealth, and pleasure to the financial abstraction of semio-capital. … the future is … Continue reading →

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