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Revolution is everywhere: The radical politics of housing in spain
Following on our previous post on housing occupations in Rome, we share below, in translation, an interview with an activist of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca of Sabadell, Catalonia (BCstore 04/04/2017). We have had numerous occasions to write … Continue reading
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Tagged Occupations, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, revolution
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Revolution is everywhere: House occupations in Rome
The understanding that capitalism is more than a form of economic organisation-exploitation, that the exploitation of labour presupposes the creation and reproduction of the conditions of that exploitation, and that today the production of those conditions is itself a source … Continue reading
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Tagged Coordinamento Cittadino di Lotta per la Casa, italy, Occupations, Okupations, revolution
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Armand Gatti and the wandering words of rebellion
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. Antonin Artaud I always believed that by the beauty of words, one could change the world. Armand Gatti His weapon … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Armand Gatti, Art and Revolution, france
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The Anarchism of Blackness
The Democratic Party has led Black America down a dead end. The sooner we begin to understand that, the more realistically we will be able to organize against fascism. by William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi from Roar Magazine #5
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Tagged anarchism, anti-fascism, racism, united states, William C. Anderson
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March 18, 1871: The Birth of the Paris Commune – A Narrative
Remembering the Paris Commune (from CrimethInc.), followed by an interview with Kristen Ross, author of Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (Verso, 2015), with Roarmag‘s Jerome Roos … What idea does the Paris Commune represent? And why is this … Continue reading
The story of Nestor Makhno through film
From paris-luttes.info … The Makhnovist movement was one of the rare anarchist-communist insurrections in history, if not the only one, capable of holding a territory for a number of years (from 1917 to 1921). The film that follows returns to the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Nestor Makhno, revolution, russian revolution, ukrainian revolution
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Tomás Ibáñez: The anarchism to come
Tomás Ibáñez is arguably one of the most important voices of spanish anarchism, and the resonance of his work extends beyond his country of origin. Infrequently translated into english, we have tried in earlier posts to modestly fill that gap. We … Continue reading
Murray Bookchin: The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
In our series dedicated to anarcho-syndicalism, we share Murray Bookchin’s critical reflections on this tradition within anarchism, in the excellent essay, “The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism”. Whatever reservations we have regarding the direction of Bookchin’s anarchism towards a radically democratic municipalism, … Continue reading
Errico Malatesta: On Syndicalism
Our recent series of testimonial posts in memory of the centenary of the russian february revolution of 1917, posts that we shared from (and by which we were inspired) Robert Graham’s Anarchist Weblog, with additional writings by the same authors, raise … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, D. Abad de Santillan, Errico Malatesta
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Looking back on the united states prison strike
We have been late in sharing news of the largest prison strike in united states history. Begun last Fall, on the 45th anniversary of the Attica uprising, the strike spread to 24 states and involved over 20,000 prisoners. If the … Continue reading →