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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
In solidarity with the occupied factory Vio.Me.
The two years old Vio.Me. factory occupation in Thessaloniki, greece, a radical experiment in workers self-management and community solidarity, is threatened by a court decision which risks forcing the liquidation of machinery and factory premises. If the decision goes … Continue reading
Interrupting capital: Blockupy in Frankfurt
The aim was disruption; not a demonstration as normal event, a weekend affair to idle away one’s idleness. As Blockupy announced, the March 18th intervention against the inaugural ceremony of the European Central Bank’s new headquarter’s building, was directed at interrupting … Continue reading
Ferguson and the Criminalization of American Life: David Graeber
We share below an essay by David Graeber on a report by the the department of justice of the united states on the Ferguson Police Department, originally published on Gawker (19/03/2015). See also Black Skin White Cops.
Okupations and strikes amidst students: Amsterdam and Toronto
With each passing day of the New University/Amsterdam student occupation, the movement resonantes locally and beyond the country’s borders. The commodification of education is global; if restrained in the past, it is today without leash, and runs amok among the … Continue reading
Tales of rebellious students: The London school of economics
From the Guardian (18/03/2015), we have learned today that students of the London School of Economics have occupied the central administration room at the university in protest at what they call the marketisation of higher education.
Disobedience, resistance, okupation: Anti-capitalist movements in Manresa, Catalonia
The revolution takes place in our everyday present … Manresa, a small city of the region of Bages, in Catalonia, is an industrial centre in decline, with numerous industries closed or in a state of terminal crisis. Like a sort … Continue reading
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Istanbul: Urban renewal as primitive accumulation
(Yuksel Arslan) Capitalism’s need for wealth extraction in an increasingly urbanised human space can only force it to turn upon itself, to consume itself, in gestures of commodity autophagia. But if cannibalism could once serve as a mode of sacrificial … Continue reading
Rethinking Anarchism: Carlos Taibo (5)
In our ongoing endeavour to translate Carlos Taibo’s Rethinking Anarchy: Direct Action, Self-Management, Autonomy (La Catarata, Madrid, 2013), what follows is “Chapter 5”. We have already translated and posted the “Prologue” and the “Chapter 1″ of this work (Click … Continue reading
Anarchy in the school: Escuela Libre Paideia
Education is the Art and Practice of making people free. Pepita Martrín Luengo Plato´s early reflections upon education were grounded in the conviction that the ethical nature of the individual and society depended in equal measure on it. Justice was … Continue reading
Time, revolution and historical subjectivity
(Photographs by Alexey Titarenko) In revolution, everything happens incredibly quickly, just like in dreams in which people seem to be freed from gravity. Gustave Landauer, Revolution We have merely to tear down the Bastilles of the future, restructure the past … Continue reading →