From Procés Embat, a reflection on electoral-representative politics and social movements, on the eve of spain’s municipal and regional elections. If we share this text in translation, it is because of its intrinsic interest, as well as its relevance beyond the … Continue reading
What would be the nature of a non/anti-capitalist economy today? What characteristics would it possess? How would production be carried out? Would only socially necessary goods be produced? And what is a socially necessary good? How would distribution be effected? … Continue reading
John Holloway remains one of the most eloquent marxists of our times. With intellectual roots in italian autonomist marxism, his insistence on reading Capital as a dynamic system of social relations of appropriation constructed through struggles against peoples’ efforts to autonomously and … Continue reading
The shur indians , the so called jíbaros, cut off the heads of the vanquished. They would cut them and shrink them until they could be held in a fist, so that the vanquished does not resuscitate. But the vanquished … Continue reading
We share below the translation of an interview with Tomás Ibañez, reflecting on the current rise, in the wake of the mass social movements of 2011, of “left-wing” political parties. The interview was originally published in the greek efsyn.gr (02/05/2015), and … Continue reading
Three weeks before spanish municipal elections, Apoyo Mutuo (Mutual Aid) appears as a tool that transforms into a political actor all of those persons who do not see themselves represented in the institutional path of politics. On the 9th of … Continue reading
We publish below a translation of an article that appeared in the Madrid based Periódico Diagonal (07/05/2015), celebrating thirty years of okupations in the city. If okupations are central to any anti-capitalist politics, they are equally haunted by risks and … Continue reading
To demand rights, rights to goods, is to demand them of someone, invariably an authority who in one form or another controls the access to those goods. It is to hand over one’s social fate to that authority, it is … Continue reading
Government by debt subjects populations to a particular regime of submission, submission of the present to a future which is nothing more than an extension of the present. The present in fact vanishes before a kind of eternal “now” in … Continue reading
Gentrification: The city as a field of appropriation, dislocation and segregation
We share below a reflection on gentrification as capitalist dispossession, from a friend of Autonomies … On the 14 the of June of 1989, Bruce Bailey, tenants activist in New York city, was murdered, his dismembered body abandoned in a … Continue reading →