Tag Archives: anti-racism

Martin Sostre: Follow the Principles that Won My Freedom

Posted on August 9, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

The following speech, “Follow the Principles that Won My Freedom,” was delivered by Sostre in 1976 shortly after his release from prison and offers a message of revolutionary optimism about how collective action can succeed—as it did for him—in freeing … Continue reading →

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Reflections on a decade of UK Black Lives Matter

Posted on August 9, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

From Freedom News (09/08/2026) This racist violence we experience is an active race?making project serving the interests of capital Kojo Black Lives Matter UK was founded by activists who had worked together on previous deaths in police custody, both in … Continue reading →

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Nate Holdren: Against The Border Power

Posted on February 16, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

The article that follows was originally posted here, at buttondown.com (05/02/2026) and subsequently here, at libcom.org (10/02/2026). As I’ve mentioned a while back I wrote a letter to Little Village saying deportation as such is wrong, that we should think of it … Continue reading →

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi: Racist global war

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Julius Gavroche

Desertion frugality friendship: how to survive while human history ends in horror. Over the past decade, I have frequently used the term “global civil war” to describe the third world war that has been creeping in since 2022 and was … Continue reading →

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Anarchists in the Movement against Police and White Supremacy

Posted on June 2, 2025 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective 28/05/2025 From the Los Angeles Riots to the George Floyd Uprising To observe the five-year anniversary of the burning of the Third Precinct at the beginning of the George Floyd Revolt, we have prepared a timeline tracing the trajectory … Continue reading →

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For James Baldwin: “Telling it like it is”

Posted on August 2, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

If the hope of givingis to love the living,the giver risks madnessin the act of giving. Some such lesson I seemed to seein the faces that surrounded me. Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,what gift would give them the gift to … Continue reading →

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Fredy Perlman: Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom

Posted on March 10, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

It galls me that a new Fascism should choose to use the experience of the victims of the earlier Fascism among its justifications. Fredy Perlman We return to the work of Fredy Perlman, this time with the Israeli genocide of … Continue reading →

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For a revolution of values

Posted on January 15, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

For Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) … Reflection On Doctor King Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin I am not one of a number of persons and commentators who come merely to hypocritically give salutations to Dr. King, … Continue reading →

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Ian Alan Paul: Anaesthetic Violence

Posted on December 18, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Ill Will has published the second part of an earlier reflection on the current Israeli violence against Palestinians, by Ian Alan Paul, this time offering an analysis of the politics of death in Palestine. Both essays are excellent and as … Continue reading →

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For Benjamin Zephaniah (1958-2023)

Posted on December 7, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

“Certainly, a lot of people in Britain, when you say ‘anarchists,’ they just think of riots. And the news will say, ‘Today, twenty anarchists went on a rampage.’ They don’t understand anarchism,” he said. “Politically, I’m a revolutionary. I believe … Continue reading →

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