Tag Archives: Soviet Union

Two Prosecutors: A film by Sergei Loznitsa

Posted on June 24, 2026 by Julius Gavroche

From lundimatin #525 (23/06/2026) At the start of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s film, Two Prosecutors (2025), two NKVD Chekists – torturers working in a “special detention” centre – exchange a joke that makes them laugh heartily. The prison commander tells … Continue reading →

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George Orwell: The Prevention of Literature

Posted on November 11, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging … Continue reading →

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No escaping the state: the story of Lovett Fort-Whiteman

Posted on January 22, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

From Roarmag (13/01/2021), a reflection on the limits of the State as a vehicle for anti-racism, by William C. Anderson. The life of a Black radical who fled state violence in the US only to find it under a different … Continue reading →

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