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Creating archipelagos of autonomous communities: Rural Okupation

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

What is autonomy and what are autonomous communities, are not simple or innocent questions.  By “autonomy” we mean both collective life that is self-governed freely and in equality, and forms of life in opposition to currently reigning kinds of economic … Continue reading →

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Without fear: Land occupations in spain

Posted on September 23, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

On the 30th of June, the state owned land estate of Somonte, occupied in 2012 by landless, agricultural day labourers of the Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores/as (SAT), were evicted by a large police (Guardia Civil) intervention, for a fifth time. … Continue reading →

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Creating radical autonomy: Fraguas

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as … Continue reading →

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Scenes from the class struggle in spain

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

The protagonists of class struggles are many, as are the stages upon which they are enacted and re-enacted.  What defines them is not historically pre-determined; revolutionaries and reactionaries playing out the assigned roles of objective social contradictions are all fictions … Continue reading →

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Canciones Andaluzas: El Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores/as

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Julius Gavroche

El Grito La elipse de un grito, Va de monte a monte. Desde los olivos será un arco iris negro sobre la noche azul. ¡Ay! Como un arco de viola el grito ha hecho vibrar largas cuerdas del viento. ¡Ay! … Continue reading →

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Land to use, land to work, land for freedom

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Julius Gavroche

After Somonte, the Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores/as promoted a further okupation of public lands (24/07), military in this instance, known as Las Turquillas, as an act of resistance against idle public wealth, unemployment and the domination of marginalisation and poverty.  The … Continue reading →

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Agrarian Revolution in Andalucia

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Julius Gavroche

And it will again be by the working in common of the soil that the enfranchised societies will find their unity and will obliterate the hatred and oppression which has hitherto divided them.                                                              Peter Kropotkin On the 4th of … Continue reading →

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