Tag Archives: Federación de anarquistas Gran Canaria

The FAGC’s breakfast programme

Posted on June 3, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

News from the FAGC – Federación Anarquista de Gran Canaria (01/06/2022) … The Canary Islands has one of the highest levels of child poverty in Europe. 35% of the minors residing on the Islands are malnourished. This statistic, and this … Continue reading →

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10 years of neighbourhood anarchism: The FAGC

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

We translated and published our first post dedicated to the Federación Anarquista Gran Canaria in May of 2013. We have since tried modestly and from a distance to follow the remarkable activity of those who have made the Federación and … Continue reading →

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Ruymán Rodríguez and the Federación Anarquista de Gran Canaria: An Interview

Posted on October 6, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

An interview for the spanish newspaper, El Salto diario (05/10/2021) … The Canarian anarchist activist Ruymán Rodríguez visits the Valencian Community, invited by the Mostra del Llibre Anarquista d’Alacant, to share the work carried out by the Sindicato de Inquilinas … Continue reading →

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In solidarity with Ruymán Rodríguez

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Ruymán Rodríguez of the Federación Anarquista Gran Canaria faces a fine and imprisonment for the trumped up charge of aggression against police when arrested, held and violently interrogated illegally. Ruymán Rodríguez’s crime is to be an anarchist, an anarchist whose … Continue reading →

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Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria (FAGC): Anarchism in struggle

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Idealism is necessary, but not based on fantasies and chimeras, but on the real capacity to apply our ideas to transform the environment. We must find the limits of our myths – ideological, theoretical or any other kind – to … Continue reading →

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The call of anarchism: An identity made in practice

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

I believe that if those who feel called upon to act as guardians of the anarchist movement once realized how little it is in need of their guardianship, what a trifle each individual contribution is, even theirs, they would be … Continue reading →

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Ruymán Rodríguez: Neighbourhood anarchism. A surmounting thesis

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

If you struggle you can lose If you don’t struggle you are lost On a wall in Cordoba Ruymán Rodríguez‘s “neighbourhood anarchism” is the child of his militant experience in the Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria (FAGC).  It is an effort … Continue reading →

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To be an anarchist: Ruymán Rodríguez

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

We share once again an essay, in translation, by Ruymán Rodríguez of the FAGC – Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria (alasbarricadas.org 26/03/2017).  What follows is a critical reflection on what it means to be an anarchist, born of Rodríguez’s experience with the FAGC. … Continue reading →

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In solidarity with Ruymán Rodríguez and the FAGC

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

On the 30th of April 2015, in Santa María de Guía, Grand Canary, the anarchist activist Ruymán Rodríguez, member of the Federación de Anarquistas de Gran Canaria (FAGC)/Anarchist Federation of the Grand Canary, member of the recently created Sindicato de … Continue reading →

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Anarchist myths

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

We share below a reflection by Ruymán Rodríguez of the Federación de Anarquistas Gran Canaria on the limits of an anarchism exclusively thought in terms of anti-statism and anti-capitalism.

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