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The Quito commune: Ecuador’s insurrection

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Alexander Kluge writes that the “sentiments are the true inhabitants of people’s paths of life. It can be said of them what is said of the Celts … : they are everywhere, we simply do not see them. The sentiments … Continue reading →

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Hong Kong: A phenomenology of permanent insurrection

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

This struggle has played a pedagogical role for everyone who has participated in it. It is a phenomenological pedagogy in which the city that we inhabit has acquired an entirely new significance through the process of the struggle—every aspect of … Continue reading →

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The gilets jaunes: Insurrection at the end times of capital

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Walter Benjamin, in an early and originally unpublished essay, described capitalism as a religion, a purely cultic religion without dogma or theology; a religion in which things and deeds have meaning only in relation to the cult. The ends are … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben: Challenging the anarchy of power through the anarchy of forms-of-life

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

Smettetela di pensare ai vostri diritti, smettetela di chiedere il potere. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Pci ai giovani We return to the work of Giorgio Agamben, in the translation of a lecture from 2013, dedicated to the concept of destituent power.  … Continue reading →

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The Hong Kong insurrection: Reading the shape of things to come from tactics

Posted on August 17, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From an anonymous contributor, news from Hong Kong’s ongoing insurrection (posted on Its going down 13/08/2019) …

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In solidarity with Vincenzo Vecchi and all imprisoned anarchists

Posted on August 17, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

News of the arrest of Vincenzo Vecchi in france last week reminds all of us yet again of the determination of State authorities to silence and criminalise dissidence, by whatever means available. Vecchi was finally condemned by italian courts in … Continue reading →

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Looting Back: An Account of the Ferguson Uprising

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. Collective (09/08/2019) …

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Looking back-forward at the gilets jaunes: A taking stock

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

We share an unfinished debate on the yellow vests’ movement, on what is or was radical within it, and where it failed, if indeed it did so. Our caution here is dictated by the different positions in the exchange below. … Continue reading →

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Beyond violence and non-violence: Peter Gelderloos

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

… nonviolence, in its current manifestations, is based on falsified histories of struggle. It has implicit and explicit connections to white people’s manipulations of the struggles of people of color. Its methods are wrapped in authoritarian dynamics, and its results … Continue reading →

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Hong Kong: Anarchists in the Resistance to the Extradition Bill

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective, an interview with an anarchist collective in Hong Kong, on the ongoing protests against a proposed extradition law with china.

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