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Category Archives: Commentary
The limits of community
We share an essay by Ruymán Rodríguez that critically evaluates the radical poltical potential of the idea of community. Without defending the need to abandon the creation of communities as part of a larger anarchist political project, Rodríguez nevertheless argues … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, anarchism, autonomy, community, Occupations, Okupations, Ruymán Rodríguez, spain
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Dancing life: Radical gestures of okupied social centres
Today okupied social centres play today a fundamental role in the renewal, constitution and radicalisation of social movements. Where there presence is marked (e.g. greece, spain, italy), they themselves often constitute a challenge to both State and an economy based … Continue reading
Infrastructure against borders
What follows is the second of a two part essay from the collective Out of the Woods, posted on Libcom.org, reflecting on refugees-migrants, climate change, the violence of border politics, anti-migrant populisms and no borders politics.
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Tagged anti-fascism, ecology, family, Feminism, heteronormativity, LGBT, migration, nationalism, patriarchy, racism
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Refuges and death-worlds
What follows is the first of a two part essay from the collective Out of the Woods, posted on Libcom.org, reflecting on refugees-migrants, climate change, the violence of border politics, anti-migrant populisms and no borders politics.
The Commodification of Moments
Reflections on the appropriation of intimacy, affectivity, of moments as commodity, from a friend of Autonomies, danny champion …
The plunder of tourism: Lisbon
There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We’ll dream of being blind. Paul Virilio Mass urban tourism condemns a city to branding, a product to be consumed, a spectacle to … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, Left Hand Rotation Collective, portugal, tourism
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Fidel Castro and the fetishism of power
Talking to us of homeland and freedom is a waste of time unless they start by guaranteeing our independence as individuals; we are not about to redeem the homeland while we are all left slaves. The measure of the homeland’s … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Che Guevara, cuba, Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, revolution, third world
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Standing with Standing Rock
“State security services in North Dakota have used tear gas and water hoses against hundreds of activists protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Protesters also reported being hit with rubber bullets and percussion grenades on a bridge just north of … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, ecology, Indigenous peoples, Okupations, rebellion
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Orhan Pamuk: “Why didn’t I become an architect?”
(All photographs by Ara Güler) As a sort of envoi for our series “Struggles for space“, we share below a short but rich reflection on the impossibility of architecture, by the turkish writer Orhan Pamuk; an envoi which could just … Continue reading
Élisée Reclus: On anarchist colonies
As a complement to our last post, the essay “The limits of community” by Ruymán Rodríguez, we share the first of two essays, among others cited by Rodríguez, that help to further understand the bases of his reflection. The first essay, … Continue reading →