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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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The Movement of Refusal

From ill will (03/10/2023), an essay by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen on the “politics” of contemporary protest movements/insurrections. Other languages: Deutsch The last decade and a half has been a time of unrest. As the French political anthropologist Alain Bertho has … Continue reading

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Message to those outraged by (burnt) rubbish bins

A video intervention from the Cerveaux Non Disponibles collective (the text follows in English and French) …

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France: Who is afraid of a general strike?

The strangely intermittent general strike in opposition to proposed pension reforms in france is neither “general”, nor truly a “strike”. If the movement is soon to enter its third month, with another day of protest scheduled for today (Paris-luttes.info), the … Continue reading

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The yellow vests’ rebellion and beyond

The yellow vests insurrection revealed the central role of the State in assuring the reproduction of capitalist social relations, a role which as central, is also fragile, sustained only by its increasing militarisation against those whom capital increasingly discards. From … Continue reading

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The gilets jaunes: Tracing the lines of fracture

On the one hand, then, there is antagonism, everything that contributes to our generalized dispossession, itself associated with pure and simple destruction; and on the other hand, everything that seeks to oppose it, in an ethical leap to save the … Continue reading

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Raoul Vaneigem: Paths to a human future

From the notbored.org journal, we publish a reflection on the insurrections of our times, by Raoul Vaneigem, generously shared with Autonomies. Everything Starts Here and Now (1) (notbored.org) Until now, capitalism has only tottered due to the crises of its … Continue reading

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The ethics of revolution

With resonances of Mario Tronti and with the yellow vests in the background, a reflection on the ethics of revolution … What can, what must keep us standing: About revolutionary ethics Dietrich Hoss (lundi matin #228, 03/02/2020) Always the same … Continue reading

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France: a general strike waiting to happen

December 6th marked the beginning of a general strike in france against proposed reforms to the national pension schemes for different categories of workers. The “reforms” are the typical State driven “neoliberal” cuts in the value of the pensions, extension … Continue reading

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The gilets jaunes: Resonances

We no longer wish to live as before. From lundi matin#207, 09/09/2019 … Une juste colère – Interrompre la destruction du monde/A just anger – Interrupting the destruction of the world, by the historian and anthropologist Jérôme Baschet, will appear … Continue reading

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