Tag Archives: anarchism

Imagining feral revolution in times of carnival

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit on which the grotesque is based destroys this limited seriousness and all pretense of an extratemporal meaning and unconditional value of necessity. It frees human consciousness, thought, and imagination for new potentialities. … Continue reading →

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The State unveiled: Spain’s anarchist hunt comes to a temporary end

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Spain’s Audiencia Nacional tribunal has closed the legal proceedings and State driven persecution of anarchists known as Operación Piñata. (Wednesday, January 31st, 2018) Once again, everything has ended in nothing.  Almost three years after the arrests of fifteen people under Operación Piñata … Continue reading →

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For Ursula K. Le Guin

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

A Few Words to a Young Writer: Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking … Continue reading →

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With and beyond anti-fascism (3): Georges Bataille and the anarchy of life

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Fascism is not to be debated. It is to be smashed… Buenaventura Durruti It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator … Continue reading →

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Revolution in the end time: A reflection

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

We are writing to answer the question we ask and are asked daily: “But really, what should we be doing?” Posted on the anarchist library, and anonymous reflection on radical anti-capitalist politics in our time of permanent crisis.

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With and beyond anti-fascism (1)

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

… to make use of the weapons created by fascism, which has been allowed to use the fundamental aspirations of people for affective exultation and fanaticism. But we affirm that the exaltation… must be placed in the service… of a … Continue reading →

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For Katarina Gogou

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

… we convalescents still need art, it is another kind of art – a mocking, light, fleeting, divinely untroubled, divinely artificial art that, like a bright flame, blazes into an unclouded sky! Above all: an art for artists, only for artists! Friedrich … Continue reading →

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On popular power in venezuela: A statement by uruguayan anarchists

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

From the anarchist federation of uruguay (and posted, in english translation, by the black rose anarchist federation – 14/12/2017), reflections on popular power in venezuela’s “bolivarian revolution” …

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Catalonia after the storm: Tomás Ibáñez

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

El Roto The debate among anarchists around the Catalan independence movement continues unabated.  From a distance, as always, it is difficult to follow events, to grasp all that is at stake, to draw reasonably clear conclusions.  It is however our … Continue reading →

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An anarchist primer

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

For those of us born into a captivity gilded by the blood and sweat of less fortunate captives, the challenge of leading a life worth living of stories worth telling is a lifelong project, and a formidable one; but all … Continue reading →

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