📜 Movement
– against stagnation – Everyone is familiar with this “action by which a body moves from one place to another”, which traverses the entire universe, from atoms to celestial bodies, including all living beings on our planet. But in recent…
Social Ecology and Communalism Workshop
Association: Communalist Social Ecology “L'Adventice”
FLORÉAL M. ROMERO
📜 Anticapitalism
Anticapitalism has become a catch-all label, empty or all-encompassing, claimed by politicians on the political spectrum from the far left to the far right, but also by a whole section of the trade union movement. It is also claimed by…
📜 Trade Unionism
In the beginning, there were peasant communities; they were destroyed by the bourgeoisie. Dispossessed of their land, uprooted and turned into proletarians, men, women, and children alike were forced to sell their labor power in order to survive. This fundamental…
Our contribution to « Les Résistantes 2025 »
5pm – 7pm – Reclaiming the means of production and rethinking our eco-friendly alternatives Round table discussion 📍Chapiteau Anne Sylvestre – Saturday, August 9 In the presence of local trade unionists, representatives from international territories such as Chiapas and Rojava,…
📜 The POLITICAL versus politics
“Politics” for state institutions Today, “doing politics” means entering the game of state institutions, parties, elections, and careers as professional politicians. This game, forged by the bourgeoisie in the 16th century to accompany the rise of capitalism, claims to represent…
Communalism: Organize to liberate!
This text follows on from “Capitalism and the State: Know to Subvert!”, in which we attempted to identify the systemic foundations of domination—the logic of the state and capitalism—in order to better deconstruct them. But criticism is not enough. To…
Capitalism and the State: Know to Subvert!
– Foundations of a communalist strategy. Before thinking about strategy, we must first understand what we are fighting against. This first part offers a critical analysis of the structures that dominate us—capitalism and the state—to better understand their logic, their…
Capitalism on a forced march
The following text on “Capitalism on a forced march,” a follow-up to “The imperative need to move beyond capitalism,” is a summary of one of a long series of workshops organized by Chusma Selecta and Floréal Roméro to help us…
The imperative need to move beyond capitalism
The following text on “The imperative need to move beyond capitalism” is a summary of one of a long series of workshops organized by Chusma Selecta and Floréal Roméro to help us better understand our world. The complete series is…
Reply to José Iglesias Fernández: citizenist
José Iglesias Fernández is a critical Spanish economist, closely linked to the social movements of Barcelona and a founding member of the Seminari d’Economia Crítica Taifa ( 1995-2018). He is also a member of the Mesa Cívica de la Renta…
Revolution and collectivization in Spain
(1936-1937) I – The reason for the story II – The background: 1870-1936 1) Birth and consolidation, 1870-1920 2) The insurrection cycle, 1931-1933 3) Internal polarization of the CNT 4) The revolution of Asturias, 1934 III – The background 1)…
“Reclaiming the land from the machines”
Review of “Reclaiming the land from the machines” from L’Atelier paysan Editions Points Publication date 04/14/2023 €10.20 incl. VAT 240 pages – EAN 9782757899472 L’Atelier paysan is a cooperative that supports the design and peddling of peasant technologies, invented and…
State libertarianism
This article is a transcript of the interview with a journalist on Argentine radio about Milei’s current policy in that country, conducted on Thursday, June 27, 2024. It is interesting in the sense that it is in line with our…
The Age of the Peasants – 02
Ploughing Tilling Fighting: – A History of Peasants on ARTE To watch or rewatch with a critical eye. Watching and rewatching the four episodes of “Le temps des paysans” is to revel in the work of documentary filmmaker Stan Neumann,…
On the need to shift the focus from work
Nowadays, it is practically impossible to have a conversation with someone without the subject of work coming up. Wherever you work, it is rare for conversations not to start with this question: So? How’s your job? Whether you like it…
Switch to the side of Jérôme Baschet?
In the light of Murray Bookchin Floréal Romero In EcoRev’ 2022/1 (No. 52)2022/1 (No. 52), pages 31 to 47 Éditions Association EcoRev’ ISSN 1628-6391 DOI 10.3917 In the light of Murray Bookchin The world we share Against collapse, against toppling…
Floréal Romero on Communalism
April 2020 1) We see a whole “citizenist” current seizing municipalism and communalism. Has the communalist revolution already been diluted in the lukewarm waters of social democracy? Indeed, a whole “citizens’ movement” sector has taken hold of municipalism, but without…