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Author Archives: Julius Gavroche
Share Our Future – The CLASSE Manifesto
This summer, the Québec student union CLASSE (La Coalition large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale) sets out across the province to share/explain to as many as possible the reasons for, the goals and hopes, of the student movement …
And protests rain upon the government of spain
Between the coal miners’ strike and protests, spontaneous and organised, against the spanish government’s most recent efforts to reduce spending (increase in sales tax, reduction in the salaries of civil servants, reduction in unemployment insurance, and the like, adding up … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Asturian Miners' Strike, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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Scenes from the class struggle in spain: The Coal Miners’ Strike … and questions
“We do not struggle as working class, we struggle against being working class … . Our struggle is not the struggle of labour: it is the struggle against labour. …There is nothing good about being members of the working class, … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Asturian Miners' Strike, spain, Spanish Revolution, Strike
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Scenes from the class struggle in spain: The Coal Miners’ Strike
The spanish state/police, in dealing with the miners' strike, does not limit itself to confronting the miners, but also their families in their neighbourhoods and in their homes. The miners' have lost their fear and it is the task of … Continue reading
Lessons from an Okupation: São Lázaro 94
On the 25th of April, building number 94, São Lázaro Street, in Lisbon was okupied. The okupation was brought to an end on the 31st of May, by order of the city government. Dozens of municipal police were mobilised for … Continue reading
Scenes from the class struggle in spain: The Coal Miners’ Strike
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles", Marx and Engels wrote in 1848, a truth that continues to resonate to our own day, whether in the Asturias or elsewhere. The coal miners' strike of … Continue reading
Toma la tele: 15Mbcn tv
"In a world which really is topsy -turvy, the true is a moment of the false." Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle One of the remarkable features of 15M spain is the okupation/proliferation of media, as both a … Continue reading
Osera Te Quiero
The police of Madrid focefully brought to an end another Okupied Social Centre (05/07), La Osera de Usera. Okupied for the last 9 months, a neighbourhood had brought to life an unfinished theatre complex which had stood empty for 17 … Continue reading
The Government of the Economy or the Economy of Government: Notes on/for Giorgio Agamben
The current problem is altogether different: it’s a matter of using up, without war, the unprecedented accumulation, which has turned the whole world into a colossal powder keg. Georges Bataille, Sovereignty Krauss misses his stroke, a lump of … Continue reading
Resonances of Temporary Autonomous Zones … for Hakim Bey
“…the demand for the eruption of the marvellous into the ordinary will become the most ringing, poignant & tumultuous of all political demands …” Hakim Bey, Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy The politics of the marvellous, … Continue reading →