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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Scenes from the class struggle in spain: Evictions and the reign of capital
The politics of eviction is the political expression of the protection of Capital …
Okupying education: Taking the university of Amsterdam
Since late 2014, students of the University of Amsterdam have engaged in protests against planned budget cuts and the restructuring of academic programs, especially humanities programs, all part of the University´s overall austerity measures dictated by an institutional debt crisis, … Continue reading
Cinema America Occupato (Rome): The okupation of culture
Okupations are often conceived of as the taking and creation of spaces, spaces that then serve to satisfy immediate needs. We think of houses, factories, land, and so on. But okupations are also, and perhaps above all else, spaces for … Continue reading
The police as the state
The killing of a homeless black man on March the 1st by the Los Angeles police, one more in the never ending list of murders, is tragic testimony to the racism and violence of capitalist states for whom the “economically … Continue reading
Blockupy: M18 Full communism instead of austerity
On March the 18th, Blockupy has called for a taking of the streets of Frankfort, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new european central bank headquarters, to protest against all that the ECB represents: a politics of “austerity” … Continue reading
Syriza’s first month: reflections
However modest the Syriza government’s ambitions were in matters of political economy, they have been forced back from promises by the financial and political threats of their european “partners”. The reign of financial and debt capital is so overwhelming that … Continue reading
Ofelia Nieto 29: Capitalism as permanent expropriation
In August of 2013, we reported on the resistance of the Gracia González family and hundreds of activists against the eviction and destruction of their home, 29 Ofelia Nieto Street, in the neighbourhood of Tetuán, in Madrid.
A house of rainbow colours: the story of Fronte del Porto Occupato (Rome)
Walls divide, segregate, displace; channel according regimes of power, direct according to apparatuses of control. They mark lines of authority, frontiers of wealth, psychoses of fear. Yet they may also be breached: if rebellion is transgression, then it is defined … Continue reading
Cracks in Syriza
The Syriza government of greece, in its negotiations with the finance ministers of the eurozone countries, is trapped in its own logic of endeavouring to simultaneously preserve capitalist social relations (guaranteeing, for example, the payment of its national debt, in … Continue reading
Syriza as Sisyphus: Governing by debt
If the Syriza government of greece prefers to speak of the “institutions” rather than the “troika” (a group of “experts” of the principal creditors of the country: IMF, European Central Bank, European Commission, responsible for negotiating and verifying austerity reforms … Continue reading →