Tag Archives: revolution

From Revolution to Destitution

Posted on June 5, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

We are confronted with an expansion of the revolution that reaches the point of becoming something else. Today’s uprisings point toward an anthropological and no longer merely a political revolution, in which Marx’s distinction between political and social revolution begins … Continue reading →

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For Daniel Blanchard (1934-2024)

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

I think that radical, revolutionary critical theory is not a science; its purpose is not to provide a comprehensive, neutral account of reality. It is a political act carried out in order to transform the world and seeks to reveal … Continue reading →

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A B [Cinétract/Film-tract]

Posted on May 6, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

Gilles Deleuze, revolution, Palestine and stereoscopy From Lundi Matin #427, (06/05/2024) … What follows is an extract from Gilles Deleuze’s Abécédaire/The ABC Primer, over a series of images of stereoscopic photographs of Palestine dating from the 19th century. We have … Continue reading →

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Leftist rhetoric, leftist despair

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

From Freedom News (28/04/2024) … If a contest were held for who publishes the most effective posters in my city, it would undoubtedly go to the Trotskyites because whatever is in the news that week they engage with and their … Continue reading →

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Portugal: The revolution of 1974-1975

Posted on April 25, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

The Portuguese experience between 1974 and 1976 shows that revolutionary activity does not develop as the result of strategies devised by system analysts or bourgeois planners … It emerges in the course of the struggle itself, and its most advanced … Continue reading →

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Angela Davis: We deposit our dreams in Palestine

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

In an exercise of “telescoping”, Angela Davis helps us to see and understand the connections between the Palestinian struggle for self-determination against Israeli settler-colonialism, the more general struggle against persistent and historically rooted forms of racist colonialism and racial capitalism … Continue reading →

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Revolution and Destruction: The Fascist Obstacle

Posted on December 11, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

From lundimatin #407, December 11, 2023 … This text was written by the philosopher Jean Vioulac for a gathering organised by Lundimatin at the Consulate, in Paris, on December 2, 2023. The theme revived the most haunting dichotomy of our contemporary … Continue reading →

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Raúl Zibechi: Argentina from below

Posted on November 29, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

From Desinformémonos (20/11/2023) … With the triumph of Javier Milei, a cycle of Argentine politics closes, a cycle that began in December 2001 with the popular insurrection that overthrew the government of Fernando de la Rúa and his neoliberal policies … Continue reading →

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Roundabouts, Against Solitude

Posted on November 19, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

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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Josep Rafanell i Orra: Short treatise on cosmo-anarchism

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

From lundi matin #400, (24/10/2023) … It could be a question of characterising the collapses that we are experiencing; the collapse of living environments, of the social world and its prisons: its institutions; the collapse of the idea of a … Continue reading →

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