Tag Archives: syria

The Syrian revolution: Bearing witness to the impossible

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

We share below a reflection on and, in its own way, a testimonial of the Syrian revolution, by Catherine Coquio (Lundi Matin #137, March 12, 2018). This is followed by a more recent video recorded interview with her (in french), … Continue reading →

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The Syrian Cantina in Montreuil: Organizing in Exile

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (15/03/2022) … How Refugees Can Continue Revolutionary Struggle in Foreign Lands Eleven years ago, on March 15, 2011, protests broke out in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Over the following years, a revolution took … Continue reading →

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Ukraine in Syria, Syria in Ukraine

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

News that the Syrian government is recruiting soldiers from its own army to join the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a reminder – for those who may have forgotten – of Putin’s earlier and extremely bloody intervention to help put … Continue reading →

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War in Ukraine: Ten Lessons from Syria

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Julius Gavroche

From the CrimethInc. collective (07/03/2022) … Syrian Exiles on How Their Experience Can Inform Resistance to the Invasion In March 2011, protests broke out in Syria against the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Assad turned the full power of the military against … 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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For the syrian revolution

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Dancers and the dictator, Wissam Al Jazairy Without any pretense of a well founded critical evaluation of political events in syria, in the context of a multi-front civil conflict between imperialist and proto-state actors, we share two anarchist reflections on … Continue reading →

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