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For Philippe Gaulier (1943–2026): The anarchy of clowning

There is no pool … which has not some dead leaves floating on its surface, no human soul upon which there do not settle habits that make it rigid against itself by making it rigid against others … Henri Bergson, … Continue reading

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Josep Rafanell i Orra: Anarchism, once again

From lundimatin #501, 15/12/2025 Everyone agrees that the current political landscape in France is frankly depressing. On the one hand, there is an obvious fascistisation of stupidity, and on the other, a kitsch revival of Leninist leftism. It’s easy to … Continue reading

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Anarchism: Last ecological hope against the violence of the State

Against a State that will never resolve the climate crisis, and its violence that force does not know how to overthrow, what remains for ecologists? Historical and present day anarchism, rich in ideas for another future.

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France’s “Let’s block everything” or the will to insurrection

… the fire is not smoldering beneath the usual surface of daily acquiescence. Temps Critiques With week on from September 10, the day that coincided with a call to “Block Everything” in France, we share a critical article below from … Continue reading

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Kristin Ross: A Common Horizon for Situated Struggles

The great social measure of the Commune was its own working existence. Karl Marx, The Civil War in France The French people seem to have understood this need wonderfully well, and the something new, which was introduced into the life … Continue reading

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France: Thousands protest ‘mega-basin’ reservoir expansion

The soulevements de la terre continue … From Freedom News (23/07/2024). Struggle against hoarding of water by agro-industry sees five days of action, culminating in a 10,000-strong march on the commercial port of La Rochelle The French environmentalist movement Soulevements … Continue reading

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Georges Bataille: Popular Front in the Street

The opium of the people in the present world is perhaps not so much religion as it is accepted boredom. Such a world is at the mercy, it must be known, of those who provide at least the semblance of … Continue reading

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France’s elections and the evolution of the National Rally party

From monde nouveau (03/07/2024) and Freedom News (08/07/2024). René Berthier: Answer to an Australian Comrade Question : One thing I’m interested in is the evolution of Rassemblement National itself. There are parts of the “catastrophist” left that want to depict it … Continue reading

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Louise Michel in New Caledonia

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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France and the farmer’s uprising: Conflicts of worlds

… when just as we came to the top of a rising ground, down a long glade of the wood on my right I caught sight of a stately building whose outline was familiar to me, and I cried out, … Continue reading

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