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The russian revolution of 1917: Cornelius Castoriadis

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

The autonomous activity of the masses belongs by definition to what is repressed in history. Cornelius Castoriadis Cornelius Castoriadis’ saw in the Bolshevik seizure of power the beginning of the end of the russian revolution; an end marked by the administrative dispossession … Continue reading →

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Autonomy as societies in movement: Raúl Zibechi

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Autonomy and difference go hand in hand, because autonomy implies that people have the right to govern themselves completely, “to determine their own form of government, their own sociocultural practices, and their own economic organization” (Díaz Polanco and Sánchez 2002, 45). This point … Continue reading →

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Creating autonomies in greece: Voices from the capitalist wilderness

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Theodoros Karyotis’ essay “The Right to the City in an Age of Austerity”, focusing on greek urban-political struggles in the period of 2008 and after, allows us to conceive of what a radical politics might look like beyond the indigenous-capitalist … Continue reading →

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Traditions of autonomy: Kabylia

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro speaks of the indigenous as those who are still “tied” to a land for their well-being, as peoples whose “economy” is still significantly “local”; or indeed, who have no “economy”, as a separate and and dominate … Continue reading →

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The catalan referendum: From Crimethinc

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Reflections on the catalan referendum, from the Crimethinc. collective …

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The city belongs to those who occupy it: Okupying Lisbon

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Reflections after an assembly of a new okupation in Lisbon … Any new occupation is invariably accompanied by uncertainty, an uncertainty only intensified by a lack of clarity over means and goals, organisation and methods of functioning, and the physical … Continue reading →

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Notes on the Bure ZAD and the politics of eternity/death

Posted on September 16, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Un grand sommeil noir Tombe sur ma vie : Dormez, tout espoir, Dormez, toute envie ! Je ne vois plus rien, Je perds la mémoire Du mal et du bien… O la triste histoire ! Je suis un berceau Qu’une … Continue reading →

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Autonomous well-being: Self-organising health care in Exarcheia

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. Hippocrates Revolution begins in the everyday, in the constitution-resistance of autonomous, self-managed social relations in the many spheres of life that make … Continue reading →

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A world without police: Peter Gelderloos

Posted on July 2, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

“Violence” is something new in history. We decadents are the first to know this curious thing: violence. Traditional societies knew of theft, blasphemy, parricide, abduction, sacrifice, insults and revenge. Modern States, beyond the dilemma of adjudicating facts, recognized only infractions … Continue reading →

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Scenes from the class struggle in spain: For an okupied social centre

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

The class struggle cuts not just through the spaces of salaried labour; it divides agencies across all of the different spheres of social reproduction.  Without the latter, the former would cease to exists. We have tried over the years to … Continue reading →

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