Monthly Archives: August 2015

Rethinking Anarchism: Carlos Taibo (6)

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

What follows below is the 6th Chapter of Carlos Taibo’s Rethinking Anarchy: Direct Action, Self-Management, Autonomy (La Catarata, Madrid, 2013).  Largely concerned with the history of spanish anarchism, Taibo also considers, in this chapter, the complex relationship between anarchism and marxism, … Continue reading →

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The complete domination of time: Raúl Zibechi

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

We share below, in translation,  a reflection by uruguayan essayist and activist Raúl Zibechi (La Jornada 07/08/2015) on the contemporary political paradigm of the concentration camp. With references to historian Josep Fontana  and philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the short essay serves … Continue reading →

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The continuing reign of debt: Greece

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

As greece’s Syriza government finalises the details of a third austerity/debt repayment package with the Troika (under the threat of financial destruction from its creditors and their police), the government’s former finance minister Yanis Vaoufakis, who resigned in opposition to … Continue reading →

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Days of infamy in northern syria

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

We publish below an article by Andrew Flood published on the website of the Workers Solidarity Movement and also recently posted on Robert Graham’s Anarchism Weblog. We share Graham’s urgency in diffusing this reflection and his own introduction to the … Continue reading →

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1915 to 2015 – A Century of Genocide

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Jansem, Desolation We share below an article that was written by Devrim Valerian (09/07/2015) on the occasion of the anniversary one hundred years ago of the armenian genocide at the hands of the turkish leaders of the Ottoman Empire. However it does not … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima is everywhere

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

We have become Titans, wrote Gunther Anders in 1956, in the wake of the development of nuclear weapons and their use in japan on the 6th of August, 1945.  Lost children of an earlier humanity who could see in Faust … Continue reading →

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Migrants as border rebels

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

… we actually live in a world in which human beings as such have ceased to exist for quite a while; since society has discovered discrimination as the great social weapon by which one may kill men without any bloodshed; … Continue reading →

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