May 68

From libcom.org

Some of us had known him in the early 1970s in the Groupe Louise Michel, of which he was a member. It must be said that this period, the immediate aftermath of May '68, attracted a whole generation of young people to the Anarchist Federation. Thierry was one of them: an anarchist (more precisely, anarcho-syndicalist), an anti-militarist and conscientious objector (working for the National Forestry Office in Barcelonnette), an anti-Francoist and member of the Free Spain Committee…

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.

From Centre International de Recherches sur l’Anarchisme (CIRA) - Limousin
Taken fom Nathalie Rubel's recollections on February 21, 2024

At 88, already unable to walk, she took part in an "anarchafeminism" debate during a Librairie champêtre libertaire at the Château de Ligoure (2017).

From Organisation Communiste Libertaire
April 2, 2023

Our comrade Gérard Lagorce left us on March 30, 2023.

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.

From CIRA - Marseille, February 27, 2023

Jean Coulardeau, a native of Bordeaux, passed away at the age of 80 in his small village of Les Vastres in the Haute Loire.

From CIRA January 29, 2023

Her commitment was solid: feminist, anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-militarist, ... anarchist, until the end.

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.

There are those whose lives are testimonies to anarchism. Marc Tomsin’s was one such life. We share below a translation of an entry in the Dictionnaire des anarchistes dedicated to him, a letter of remembrance by Raoul Vaneigem, and links to two interviews with him, in french.

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