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Insurrection in the end times: The gilets jaunes
When all that remains is the prospect of misery and death, then the only fitting response is to create, out of the destruction of what is killing life …
The uncertain tides of insurrection: The yellow vest protests of france
The symbolic use of the yellow vest is clear: what was first imposed as a security device is transformed into social force. The horrible yellow clothing that should normally be worn at the time of a forced stop on … Continue reading
A homage to the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes
What is happening in Notre-Dame-de-Landes illustrates a conflict that concerns the whole world. It brings together, on the one hand, financial powers determined to transform the resources of living and nature into commodities and, on the other hand, the will … Continue reading
May 68 and the politics of desire: Amador Fernández-Savater
(photograph by Jean-Claude Seine)* It is difficult, if not impossible, to close political debate, even for ourselves. And therefore our announcement of the end of our series on May 68, with an essay by Tomáz Ibáñez, was premature. Below, we share … Continue reading
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Thinking through May 68 (to the May of 15M): Tomás Ibáñez
Our series of posts, on this, the 50th anniversary of the french May 68, began with a recent essay on the events, by Tomáz Ibáñez. And we close with an older reflection (a prologue to a larger essay on May … Continue reading
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Thinking through May 68: Murray Bookchin
From Robert Graham’s Anarchist Weblog … Lately I have been focusing on recent events in France – the conclusion to the Tarnac trial and the police attack on the ZAD autonomous zone near Nantes. Now it is time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading
Anarchists and anarchy in May 68
Reflections on anarchism in france’s May 68, by David Porter and posted at the Anarchist Library.
In a rebellious month of May, reflections on militant autonomy
Radical political militancy is never intellectually unarmed, for it always assumes some understanding of what it contests and of how it can or should be overcome. It also carries with it some idea of what is to follow the detested … Continue reading
For May 68 as a permanent possibility, for a May 2018
Numerous calls have been made in france not to celebrate May 68, but to have it burn again in 2018. These calls have in turn been circulated beyond france. From lespaves.net, an invitation for a beautiful May in Paris …
Paris is burning: The gilets jaunes
What is happening is not a “movement” in the political sense of the term, it can become so, structure itself, make emerge its leaders, but for now, it is rather a matter of understanding this “movement” in the sense … Continue reading →