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France: The desire for revolution

Every revolution begins when Society has outgrown the view of life on which the existing forms of social life were founded, when the contradictions between life such as it is, and life as it should be, and might be, become … Continue reading

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France: The struggle for a water commons

From lundimatin #376, 27/03/2023 … What Happened at Sainte-Soline 200 injured, 40 seriously injured, one person between life and death The rally against the mega-[water] reservoir of Sainte-Soline should have been festive. The defenders of water, who came by the … Continue reading

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France: Crowds against Pathology

From the Ill Will collective comes a translation of a short text by Josep Rafanell i Orra on the protests against pension reform in france (23/03/2023) … Crowds against Pathology That the president of any republic would invoke Gustave Le … Continue reading

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France: The Movement against the Pension Reform

From the CrimethInc. collective (22/03/2023) … France: The Movement against the Pension Reform – On the Threshold of an Uprising? In France, a new surge of protest activity has erupted against the government of Emmanuel Macron in response to an … Continue reading

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Sabotage: Stories and lessons from france

Sabotage as a form of revolt is as old as human exploitation. Emile Pouget, Sabotage Sabotage is to this class struggle what the guerrilla warfare is to the battle. The strike is the open battle of the class struggle, sabotage … Continue reading

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Michèle Bernstein, the Situationists and May 68

The situationists have designated as the primary terrains of creativity in the future experiments in behavior and the construction of complete settings, moments of life freely created. Since the definition of experimentation of this type is only the other side … Continue reading

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The Syrian Cantina in Montreuil: Organizing in Exile

From the CrimethInc. collective (15/03/2022) … How Refugees Can Continue Revolutionary Struggle in Foreign Lands Eleven years ago, on March 15, 2011, protests broke out in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Over the following years, a revolution took … Continue reading

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Fascism as the “reconquest”: Éric Zemmour’s political crusade

A breath of African air sweeps them [the Visigoths] from the Peninsula (…) I will be told that, despite this, we knew how to complete our glorious eight centuries of Reconquest. And to this I naively reply that I do … Continue reading

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The “forgotten fight” for prison abolition in France

I am often asked — What reforms of prison I should propose; but now, as twenty-five years ago, I really do not see how prisons could be reformed. They must be pulled down. Peter Kropotkin, Prisons: Universities of Crime There … Continue reading

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Remembering-living the Paris Commune

The 150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune: A Call from the Gilets Jaunes of Montreuil (From paris-luttes.info 24/02/2020; lundi matin #277, 01/03/2021) The 18th of March, 2021, long live the Commune, and long live the Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests!! On November 17, … Continue reading

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