Tag Archives: colonialism and anti-colonialism

The Collapse of Zionism

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From the New Left Review/Sidecar blog, we share a short article by Ilan Pappé (21/06/2024). Hamas’s assault of October 7 can be likened to an earthquake that strikes an old building. The cracks were already beginning to show, but they … Continue reading →

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Louise Michel in New Caledonia

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (29/05/2024) … In honor of Louise Michel’s birthday [29/05/2024] and the ongoing anticolonial resistance in New Caledonia, we offer an account of her time in exile there, beginning from her arrival in November 1873. This story illustrates how … Continue reading →

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Human Rights Discourse Has Failed to Stop the Genocide in Gaza

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

In December, Hudia, a refugee in Rafah, kept a diary of the horrors Israel has been visiting upon Gaza since October. This is testimonial 18 of the Palestine Uncensored series published on the Verso Books Blog. Hudia, 13 February 2024 December 6, 2023 Gaza City and … Continue reading →

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Free Palestine/Free Israel (VI): Jeff Halper

Posted on February 12, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

There is de facto a single state between the Jordan River an the Mediterranean Sea: Israel, as an occupying settler-colony, is the only state that exists in this territory. What remains under anything describable as a Palestinian authority are a … Continue reading →

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For Gaza: Ghassan Kanafani in the voice of John Berger

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature (2008) John Berger gave a moving reading of Palestinian writer, Ghassan Kanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”. Kanafani was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in 1972.

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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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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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Judith Butler: Palestinians Are Not Being “Regarded as People” by Israel and US

Posted on December 4, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

The Truthout news service has generously given us permission to share an excellent interview with Judith Butler by George Yancy, on this most recent Israeli military campaign against Gaza and its people. (31/10/2023) Judith Butler calls for immediate ceasefire, Palestinians’ … Continue reading →

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Uri Gordon: Anarchism and nationalism

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Uri Gordon’s essay, “Anarchism and Nationalism: On the Subsidiarity of Deconstruction”, is a very important contribution to the to the debate on nationalism and modern anti-colonial struggles within anarchism. And we share it below as a complement to our previous … Continue reading →

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Uri Gordon: The national question in Palestine/Israel (and trying to read events after October 7)

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Uri Gordon’s book, Anarchy Alive! Anti-authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory (Pluto Press, 2008) remains one of the best recent essays, in the English language, on anarchist practice and theory. His voice, if we can express it this way, is … Continue reading →

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