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Tag Archives: france
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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Tagged agriculture, ecology, france, Les soulèvements de la terre
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Roundabouts, Against Solitude
Remembering and resisting the erasure of the rebellion of the Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests with a piece published with lundi matin (#400, 24/10/2024) and with an excellent documentary film dedicated to the same, entitled Les Magnifiques Sauvages (in french). November 17 … Continue reading
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Tagged france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, rebellion, revolution
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Learning from the Flames
Reflections on the June 2023 revolt in France, from the CrimethInc. collective (09/08/2023) … On June 2023, in the city of Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, police brutally murdered a teenager named Nahel Merzouk, continuing a pattern of post-colonial violence … Continue reading
The riot against State-forms: An anarcho-workerist hypothesis
“All reasoning about the future is criminal, because it prevents pure destruction, and interferes with the progress of revolution.” Souvarine, from Émile Zola’s Germinal In the wake of France’s July riots, an essay/reflection by Erwan Sommerer, inspired by a work … Continue reading
France: Let there be order
… power is not defined only by its capacity to be obeyed but, first of all, by its capacity to give orders and commandments, even if those orders are not totally obeyed. A power does not fall when it is … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-statism, france, State terror
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Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The ashes of the Republic
Reflections on the French police murder of Nahel Merzouk and the country’s July riots, by Rodrigo Karmy Bolton. (Lobo Suelto! 11/07/2023) What does it mean when France burns under barricades? Perhaps, that not only France but also the Republic, as … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-racism, france, Immanuel Kant, Rodrigo Karmy Bolton, State terror
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Santiago López Petit: The violence of the force of pain
Reflections on the French police murder of Nahel Merzouk and the country’s July riots, by Santiago López Petit. (Lobo Suelto! 11/07/2023) Nahel’s mother, surrounded by her son’s friends, makes a motorcycle engine roar. Her son, murdered by a police officer, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-racism, france, insurrection, Santiago López Petit, State terror
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In praise of riots
With rebellion, awareness is born. Albert Camus, The Rebel Constitutively out of step with the present, the revolt is an impatient epiphany of the future that comes after tomorrow. Donatella Di Cesare, The Time of Revolt French politicians – the president, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-racism, france, insurrection, State terror
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Justice for Nahel
From the CrimethInc. collective (02/07/2023) … The Roots of the Uprising in France The following text was sent to us by French comrades on the third day of unrest following the murder of the teenager Nahel Merzouk by French police … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-racism, france, insurrection, State terror
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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 →