Tag Archives: colonialism and anti-colonialism

Remembering Spain: Fascism, Revolution and Colonialism

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we … Continue reading →

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Israel: Government by settler colonialism

Posted on May 25, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

As the visible part of the iceberg, the question of the district of Sheikh Jarrah is only symptomatic of what one could call colonial contempt, the reflection of a white supremacist heritage, that of something anchored in the most toxic … Continue reading →

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For March 8: Feminist voices from latin america

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

The La Tinta media collective, with the support of the The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, has produced an excellent series of video interviews with feminist writers and activists from across latin america; feminist’s who speak in many voices and who take … Continue reading →

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Mutual Aid in Puerto Rico

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Mutual aid works within the fissures and cracks of state and corporate management; it develops within spaces partially outside the reach of their power. It has the capacity to weave relations of support and autonomy, thereby generating new subjectivities and … Continue reading →

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For Daniel Guérin

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

My move in the direction of socialism wasn’t objective, or of an intellectual order,” Guérin writes of his political transformation in Vietnam. “It was more subjective, physical, coming from feeling and the heart. It wasn’t in books, it was in … Continue reading →

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Remembering revolutions past: Vietnam, 1975

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

The “third world” seems a distant place under the rule of “neoliberal” capitalism.  And yet the term once conveyed not denigration or humiliation, but revolution, the revolutions of colonised peoples against an arrogant and brutal colonial and neocolonial “first world”.  … Continue reading →

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A cinema of resistance: René Vautier

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Not so long ago, the earth numbered two thousand million inhabitants: five hundred million men, and one thousand five hundred million natives.  The former had the Word; the others had the use of it. … It came to an end; … Continue reading →

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