Tag Archives: Octavio Alberola

For Octavio Alberola (1928-2025)

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Julius Gavroche

The abandonment of utopia and the ethical concept of revolution has led revolutionary ideologies to sclerosis and ruin. Octavio Alberola Turning anarchism into a routine, a habit, which is only expressed on certain days and in a sectarian intimacy in … Continue reading →

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Octavio Alberola: The existential urgency of our times

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Julius Gavroche

Certes, le goût de la vérité n’empêche pas la prise de parti./Of course, a taste for the truth does not preclude taking sides. Albert Camus, “Actuelles I, Le journalisme critique”, Combat, 8 septembre 1944 Octavio Alberola is an anarchist militant, strongly … Continue reading →

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Catalonia after the storm: Tomás Ibáñez

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

El Roto The debate among anarchists around the Catalan independence movement continues unabated.  From a distance, as always, it is difficult to follow events, to grasp all that is at stake, to draw reasonably clear conclusions.  It is however our … Continue reading →

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15M, appropriations and revolutions: Fragmentary visions in spain

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Revolutionary change, the revolution, should begin from this moment on, beginning with the undoing of the authoritarian relations in each instant and place of daily life, breaking with the logic of obedience that power, every form of power, tries and … Continue reading →

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