Tag Archives: insurrection

France: The desire for revolution

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

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 Movement against the Pension Reform

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

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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The Gezi Resistance, June 2013

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

Going back to Turkey and the Gezi Park insurrection, and keeping the memory of the latter alive, with the CrimethInc. collective (20/06/2022) … Early on May 28, 2013, a bulldozer arrived in Gezi Park, at the center of Istanbul, and … Continue reading →

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Rordrigo Karmy Bolton: Fragments of a Chile in Revolt

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

Every revolt is circumscribed by precise borders in historical time and historical space. Before it and after it lie the no-man’s-land and duration of each and everyone’s lives, in which are fought un- interrupted individual battles. The concept of permanent … Continue reading →

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South Africa: We Carry a New World in Our Riots

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (13/08/2021), reflections on the looting and unrest of July 2021 in south africa … Beginning on July 9, 2021, when the Pietermaritzburg High Court upheld the conviction and sentencing of former South African president Jacob Zuma, … Continue reading →

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Brazil: Only Revolt Can Bring Down Bolsonaro

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (12/08/2021) … Ahead of the 2022 elections, Brazil is now reprising the same dramatic showdown that the United States faced in 2020. As the pandemic intensifies alongside corruption scandals and the unrestrained plundering of Indigenous lands, … Continue reading →

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Colombia: how the bodies of the disappeared appear

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

For several weeks now, they have begun to appear in the rivers, mainly in the Cauca and in various areas where there has been a strong social mobilisation, bodies of young people killed and dismembered, many of them in plastic … Continue reading →

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Chronicle of Cali, capital of the resistance

Posted on June 13, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

For those who may not of heard … Protests in Colombia that began in late April over a proposed tax hike have morphed into a generational outcry over the country’s deep-rooted inequalities. Fifty-eight people have died in six weeks of unrest … Continue reading →

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Raoul Vaneigem: Remembering Oaxaca, for today

Posted on May 22, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Time is the popular strike’s worst enemy. As supply shortages begin, the community could turn against the blockade points. But the poverty and state neglect are so extreme in these resisting sectors that the youth have nothing to lose and … Continue reading →

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Columbia: A general strike as insurrection

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (20/05/2021) … “Instead, We Became Millions”: Inside Colombia’s Ongoing General Strike Despite brutal state repression, Colombia’s general strike has continued strong now for 23 days. The revolt has largely been leaderless and solidarity has expanded to include an … Continue reading →

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