Category Archives: anarchism

lundimatin: “Theses on the concept of the absence of an epoch”

Posted on May 11, 2019 by

“When friends say, for years, that the revolution is no longer an absolute goal, they do not say so much that they do not want to take power or that they want to preserve some aspect of their princely life, they say above all that the great night, as a total upheaval of the conditions of existence, is impossible, among other reasons, because power is everywhere and especially in everyone.”

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Tasos Theofilou: ‘“I am not innocent”: Writings from a Greek prison’

Posted on April 30, 2019 by

“Theofilou gives testimony on the brutality of prison life, and its centrality in contemporary capitalism, through a blur of memoir, social commentary and free verse. His work centers on exposing the conditions of widespread exploitation and social struggle that persist in Greece as a result of the debt crisis — in prisons as well as in mainstream society.”

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Raquel Varela: “Learning from Portugal’s Carnation Revolution”

Posted on April 28, 2019 by

“A revolution took place in Portugal. We can date this precisely: between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975. The revolution was the most profound to have taken place in Europe since the Second World War. During those 19 months, hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike, hundreds of workplaces were occupied sometimes for months and perhaps almost three million people took part in demonstrations, occupations and commissions. A great many workplaces were taken over and run by the workers.  Land in much of southern and central Portugal was taken over by the workers themselves. Women won, almost overnight, a host of concessions and made massive strides towards equal pay and equality. Thousands of houses were occupied. Tens of thousands of soldiers rebelled.”

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Paris-luttes.info: “The gilets jaunes: Understanding the resistance of an insurrection”

Posted on April 20, 2019 by

“A background analysis of the yellow vests movement, after five months of mobilisation. A return to the salient points of this long sequence of struggle: the articulation strike-blockage and economic struggle-political struggle; the centrality of democratic issues; and the prospects of Commercy/Saint-Nazaire.”

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“Tierra y libertad: The Mexican Revolution”

Posted on April 13, 2019 by

“The 100th anniversary of the murder of Emiliano Zapata by the Mexican military (10/04/1919) is the occasion to share texts on the country’s revolution (1910-1920), a revolution profoundly marked by anarchist ideals and practices, ideals and practices which very often found expression in much older indigenous social relations, and which have continued to resonate through the history of this land’s peoples.”

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Paris-Luttes.info: “The gilets jaunes: What violence?”

Posted on April 7, 2019 by

“The political act, as opposed to voting, is when people invite themselves in and break into an institutional game determined by power.  This is perhaps anarchism: to reject the rules of the game, to expect nothing from power, to give up the idea that the power will grant anything, to grant oneself.  Strikes, blockages, wild demonstrations.”

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CrimethInc. Collective: “Yellow Vestiges: Inside the Riots of March 16”

Posted on March 24, 2019 by

‘Anarchists and other anti-authoritarian participants seem to have outlasted every effort by police to crush the movement by brute force, by politicians to co-opt it into fruitless “dialogue,” by “leaders” to pacify and dominate it, by fascists to use it as a recruiting platform.’

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“Lessons from France: The war on dissidence”

Posted on March 22, 2019 by

“No insurrection is sustainable only with bravado. If the yellow vests have persisted, it has been because of indignation – an ongoing, unanswerable indignation. But they have also been animated by the discovery that together, in daily struggle, new worlds can be made.”

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Jacques Fradin: “Gilets Jaunes: Fractures and lines of escape”

Posted on January 27, 2019 by

“And if the insurrection is to continue, it must fracture, divide and separate, create new autonomies both in the fissures of society and the Movement.“

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Ines Schwerdtner: “One, Two, Many Rosa Luxemburgs”

Posted on January 15, 2019 by

“On the 100th anniversary of her murder, Rosa Luxemburg’s incredible life provides us with a model — not necessarily of what to do, but of how to do it.”

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