Monthly Archives: October 2017

The russian revolution of 1917: Maria Nikiforova

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be conscious of their owns situation and seize freedom for themselves. Maria Nikiforova In memory of the many who made the russian revolution of 1917, a … Continue reading →

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Anarchists before the independence of catalonia

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

27th of October: the government of Catalonia declares its independence from spain; the spanish government in response dismisses the Catalan government, assumes direct control of the region and declares regional elections for the 21st of December.  What happens from now … Continue reading →

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The fear of contagion: Okupation and the quashing of dissent

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

News of an okupation echoes loudly in portugal, for the event is today rare and the okupy movement is comparatively modest and weak (in comparison to the neighbour spain, for instance).  Legislation in the country makes eviction relatively easy and … Continue reading →

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Financialization, precarity and reactionary authoritarianism: From Roarmag

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

(art by penny) What would a politics look like that promised not to end but to embrace precariousness, not as an inescapable economic “reality” (which is what our current system of financialized austerity pledges) but as a socio-ontological sine qua … Continue reading →

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What is to be done? The question of a proletarian revolution

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

(photograph by Sebastião Salgado) proletarian 1650s (n.) “member of the lowest class;” 1660s (adj.) “of the lowest class of people;”; with – iant + Latin proletarius “citizen of the lowest class” (as an adjective, “relating to offspring), in Ancient Rome, propertyless people, … Continue reading →

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Scenes from the class struggle in france: From Crimethinc

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Left to their own devices, the police found themselves for the first time in a troublesome quandary. Suddenly stripped of the compass of the law, unable to decide which of the emergent governments should be considered lawful, and realizing the … Continue reading →

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The russian revolution of 1917: Bruno Jasienski

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — “true conformity” is possible only in the cemetery. Joseph Stalin, “Our purposes” Pravda #1, (22 January 1912) For many of those who threw themselves into the russian revolution, with … Continue reading →

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The question of the independence of catalonia: From Crimethinc

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

We return to the referendum on the independence of catalonia, to the struggle between the spanish state and the state of an aspiring new republic, to where anarchists may find their ground …

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A wall of exclusion and domination

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

The actual physical borderland that I’m dealing with … is the Texas-U.S Southwest/Mexican border. The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands and the spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact, the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or … Continue reading →

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For Daniel Guérin

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

My move in the direction of socialism wasn’t objective, or of an intellectual order,” Guérin writes of his political transformation in Vietnam. “It was more subjective, physical, coming from feeling and the heart. It wasn’t in books, it was in … Continue reading →

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