Claire Auzias (1951-2024): A Teenager's Dream on a Spring Day

From Redes Libertarias & CIRA
August 7, 2024

That Friday, May 3, 1968, the police broke into the Sorbonne University, in whose courtyard several hundred students equipped to fight against the fascists had gathered. The repercussions are well known: not only did the rage explode in the vicinity of the university with an impressive and spontaneous street outburst, but the echo of that revolt spread to various parts of French territory.

Death of the Anarchist Jacques Lefort

From Vallées en Lutte

Fellow peasant and anarchist Jacques Lefort left us this week, at the age of 81, following the spread of cancer.

Jacques Lefort (May 26, 1941, Paris – February 22, 2023, Saint-Pierre-d'Argençon)

Fellow peasant and anarchist Jacques Lefort left us this week, at the age of 81, following the spread of cancer. Warmly surrounded by his loved ones and his precious books. It was peaceful, serene, which he fought this last battle.

‘Adieu’ Janín, the last Cantabrian in Parisian exile

Alejandro Arribas Jimeno, Intellectual from Laredo

More than 40 years ago I met Alejandro Arribas Jimeno, Janín. Trained pharmacist. At the beginning of the 1960s, he met a French woman, Denise, and went with her to Paris where he found his job as an expert translator at the 'Cour d'appel' in Paris, and professor at the Higher School of Interpreters and Translators of the University from Paris Dauphine.

The Utopian Function in the Anarchist Imaginary

from Autonomies

Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.

Fernando Birri quoted by Eduardo Galeano

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