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Thinking through May 68: Murray Bookchin
From Robert Graham’s Anarchist Weblog … Lately I have been focusing on recent events in France – the conclusion to the Tarnac trial and the police attack on the ZAD autonomous zone near Nantes. Now it is time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading
Anarchists and anarchy in May 68
Reflections on anarchism in france’s May 68, by David Porter and posted at the Anarchist Library.
Reimagining revolution: Amador Fernández-Savater
With the seeming proliferation and celebration of anniversaries of revolutions, “successful” or “failed”, we lose cite of the conceptual wealth and practical weight of the concept itself. The Autonomies collective has endeavoured, however modestly, to reflect upon the history and … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Amador Fernández-Savater, anarchism, Antonio Gramsci, Feminism, François Jullien, Furio Jesi, Lapo Berti, maoism, revolution, russian revolution
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Vanishing points in working class culture: Miguel Amorós
As a complement to our last post “Revolution imagined outside history”, we share an essay by the anarchist militant-writer Miguel Amorós on the possibility of revolution after the “death of the working class”.
The long and winding May of 1968 (5): Japanese Anarchism 1960s
To share, a brief account of the anarchist movement in the 1960s of japan, by Michael Schmidt, followed by the third chapter of John Crump’s essay, The Anarchist Movement in Japan, 1906–1996.
The long and winding May of 1968 (3): The italian autonomist movement
Autonomy is the body without organs of politics, anti-hierarchical, anti-dialectical, anti-representative. It is not only a political project, it is a project for existence. Individuals are never autonomous: they depend on external recognition. The autonomous body is not exclusive or … Continue reading
The Situationists and May 1968
We share an essay by Miguel Amorós critically analysing the situationist reading of and role in May 68 (from libcom.org), followed by a series of Situationist texts from the events of May 68 … A brief review of the role played … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, france, May 68, Miguel Amorós, revolution, Situationists
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I love Paris in the springtime: Tomás Ibáñez and the anarchy of May 68
VI. To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger. For historical materialism it is a question of holding … Continue reading
We fight because we like it: Maintaining our morale against seemingly insurmountable odds
They are just ghosts, the ones who think people fight to win! They fight because they like it. And There Was Light, Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, blind hero of the French Resistance From Conflictual Wisdom, through the hands of the Crimethinc … Continue reading
The anarchist critique of the state
We share, below, a sort of exercise of recollection, not of an event, but of the impossibility of “revolutionary government”, from the CrimethInc Collective. However complex the State, however much it is inseparable from our everyday life (it is not … Continue reading →