Tag Archives: State terror

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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Thinking politics from Sergei Loznitsa’s “State Funeral”

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

A revolution’s most important works of art are the men produced by it. New fiery souls are seen to arise from the explosion of new life that cleaves the convulsed world, like anthems that fill the air with clamours of … Continue reading →

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Enzo Traverso: Readings and erasures of the past

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

The political violence of the 1970s was part of a political era that concluded with a defeat of the Left, of the workers’ movement, of alternative movements. This defeat has never been processed. Rather, this past has been repressed. At … 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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Israel: Government by settler colonialism

Posted on May 25, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

As the visible part of the iceberg, the question of the district of Sheikh Jarrah is only symptomatic of what one could call colonial contempt, the reflection of a white supremacist heritage, that of something anchored in the most toxic … Continue reading →

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The occupier and the occupied

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Understanding demands words, even before the obscene. We share an essay by Ghassan Salhab, originally published in french with lundi matin (#288, 17/05/2021) …

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Colombia’s democratic facade is crumbling to pieces

Posted on May 16, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From Roarmag (13/05/2021), a reflection on the recent uprising in colombia by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.. The state’s brutal response to a one-day general strike has sparked weeks of protests in Colombia, resulting in dozens of deaths. The time for … Continue reading →

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Greece: “Our Hatred for the Police Will Bring Us Together”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. Collective (07/04/2021)… It is the beginning of April and the mental impact of the lockdown has become even more surreal as the seasons change. The acts of resistance over the past few weeks have been both beautiful … Continue reading →

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Syria: Remembering a revolution

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

We are no less than the Paris commune workers: they resisted for 70 days and we are still going on for a year and a half. Omar Aziz, 2012 The “Arab Spring” as revolution risks falling into oblivion, reduced to … Continue reading →

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With Dimitris Koufontinas

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective, news from greece … Greece: The Ghost of Junta Past Returns The Hunger Strike of Dimitris Koufontinas We are writing from the same lockdown conditions here in Athens that we have reported on for months. Despite … Continue reading →

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