Tag Archives: anti-capitalism

The gilets jaunes: Resonances

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

We no longer wish to live as before. From lundi matin#207, 09/09/2019 … Une juste colère – Interrompre la destruction du monde/A just anger – Interrupting the destruction of the world, by the historian and anthropologist Jérôme Baschet, will appear … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: Insurrection at the end times of capital

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Walter Benjamin, in an early and originally unpublished essay, described capitalism as a religion, a purely cultic religion without dogma or theology; a religion in which things and deeds have meaning only in relation to the cult. The ends are … Continue reading →

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In solidarity with Vincenzo Vecchi and all imprisoned anarchists

Posted on August 17, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

News of the arrest of Vincenzo Vecchi in france last week reminds all of us yet again of the determination of State authorities to silence and criminalise dissidence, by whatever means available. Vecchi was finally condemned by italian courts in … Continue reading →

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André Gorz: An apology for a radical ecology

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Amidst the multiplication of news of our ecological catastrophe, of proliferating extinction rebellions and proposed green new deals, and inspired by a recent posting by the lundi matin collective, we return to a seminal essay by André Gorz entitled “Their … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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