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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
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
Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH): An anniversary of resistance
The Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) of Barcelona celebrated this last Sunday, February 22, its 6th anniversary, and it did so with a protest march, music, and the occupation of a block of apartments owned by the spain’s … Continue reading
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Erri de Luca: A dissenting word
Below, we share a commentary on the writing of Erri de Luca and his trial for the crime of inciting to terrorism for having said that it is necessary to sabotage the construction of the TAV train and a partial … Continue reading
Construyendo pueblo fuerte: Spreading anarchist organisation
Initiatives to bring together libertarian activists, or those sympathetic with it, multiply in spain (Federación Estudiantil Libertaria, Espacio Libertario de Madrid, and so on). On the 19th of February, in Madrid, a collective calling itself Construyendo pueblo fuerte (Constructing a … Continue reading
Poetry by Nawal Ziani
Nawal Ziani is a poet and writer who lives in Tangier. Her work sings of the violence of patriarchy and custom, of the beauty of the forgotten everyday and of the freedom of love. Below we share what we hope … Continue reading
A poet of the working class: Philip Levine
The poet Philip Levine once wrote of the American experience that it “is to return and discover one cannot even find the way, for the streets abruptly end, replaced by freeways, the houses have been removed for urban renewal that … Continue reading
An anarchist cinema: Jean Vigo
Freedom is lived in the body. And the cinema of Jean Vigo is a celebration of that freedom. In À propos de Nice, Vigo’s first film, the dancers of Carnival are contrasted with the self-conscious and tedious bodies of bourgeois … 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 →