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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Can Vies: The resonances of an okupation
…we need to abandon the view of autonomy that fantasizes uncontaminated enclaves of emancipation. Stavros Stavrides For over a week, thousands protested the eviction and partial destruction of the Can Vies Self-managed Social Centre in Barcelona, in the Centre’s neighbourhood … Continue reading
The rebellion/resistance of okupied social centres: Centre Social Autogestionat Can Vies
An okupied social centre is a form of direct action against State-Capital. It is a refusal of the sacrosanctity of private property and of the authority which oversees its protection. It is a making common that which is held privately … Continue reading
Fellah Hallucinations in Lavapiés
Lines are not more than you. Don’t let yourself be completed by a line. They only have conceptual elegance. But they have neither beautiful dresses, nor fashonable hair. Madrid graffiti In the taberna alforro, an elegant woman invites her company … Continue reading
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A Madrid May: Where is 15M?
Two young women danced among those who walked in protest on the 17th of May, from Cibeles to Puerta del Sol. They bore upon their heads plastic vaginas with the slogan, “ni sumisa, ni devota” (“neither submissive, nor pious”). And with the sound … Continue reading
A Madrid May: resistance, escraches, occupations – the struggle for a commons
In February, 2013, a 47 year old woman walked into a bank in Almassora, Castellón, poured inflammable liquid over herself, and then set herself afire, screaming as she did so: “Look at what you have done to me! You have … Continue reading
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A Madrid May: A rebellion´s music
The general assemby of 15M Madrid in Sol, celebrating the 3 years of the movement, was opened and closed by performances of the orchestra and choir La Solfónica, born in the wake of the of the first protests in the … Continue reading
A Madrid May: 15M – A school without walls
The assembly in Puerta del Sol marking the 3rd anniversary of the 15M movement begins with presentations on the current economic crisis, that falls to the responsibility of the Economics and Justice groups of Sol, a heritage of the original … Continue reading
An anniversary of lives in movement: Spain’s 15M
The upcoming 15th of May marks a commemoration, not of anniversary of a past reality, but of a present, in movement. Spain’s 15M, over three years, has multiplied, proliferated, metamorphosised; to become not larger in numbers, but in deeper in … Continue reading
Rethinking Anarchism: Carlos Taibo
The following is a partial translation of the “Prologue” and a complete translation of “Chapter 1” of Carlos Taibo’s Rethinking Anarchy: Direct Action, Self-Management, Autonomy (La Catarata, Madrid, 2013). We have translated and posted work by Taibo before, but this … Continue reading
Autonomy as threshold spatiality: Stavros Stavrides
Stavros Stavrides’ work on political autonomy in our contemporary crises governed cities, illuminated by an experience and knowledge of protest and rebellion in Athens since 2008, is of considerable significance. In the wake of the square occupation movements of our … Continue reading →