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Cracks in Syriza
The Syriza government of greece, in its negotiations with the finance ministers of the eurozone countries, is trapped in its own logic of endeavouring to simultaneously preserve capitalist social relations (guaranteeing, for example, the payment of its national debt, in … Continue reading
Erri de Luca: A dissenting word
Below, we share a commentary on the writing of Erri de Luca and his trial for the crime of inciting to terrorism for having said that it is necessary to sabotage the construction of the TAV train and a partial … Continue reading
Construyendo pueblo fuerte: Spreading anarchist organisation
Initiatives to bring together libertarian activists, or those sympathetic with it, multiply in spain (Federación Estudiantil Libertaria, Espacio Libertario de Madrid, and so on). On the 19th of February, in Madrid, a collective calling itself Construyendo pueblo fuerte (Constructing a … Continue reading
Procés Embat: The desire for anarchist organisation
… we must cease descending to the masses. Indeed, we must precede them. Gustav Landauer Carlos Taibo recently defended the need for a nation or iberian wide anarchist organisation to unite, consolidate and give greater resonance to anarchist activism (click … Continue reading
Syriza and social movements: Interview with AK Athens
Below, we share an interview with a greek activist from AlkaKappa Athens from InfoAut (29/01/2015), on the relationship between the Syriza government and greek radical social movements, in a further effort to explore the issues at stake in the tension … Continue reading
Syriza can’t save greece: From crimethinc.
To share: from the anarchist collective CrimethInc., a further, and excellent, reflection on the significance of the electoral victory of Syriza in greece, to further the debate and to defend, in the words of the collective, “why there’s no electoral … Continue reading
The political bestiary of capitalism: Syriza, parliamentary democracy, the welfare state, and other creatures too frightful to mention
The less than flattering history of social-democratic, socialist and communist governments is more than ample reason to be skeptical about the election of a “left wing” Syriza led government in greece; and if not, at least to suggest cautious restraint … Continue reading
Okupations without borders: The ExMoi occupation in Turin
Squatting is politically significant as part of a conscious project to contest the sanctity of private property, the exclusive role of the State in securing rights and providing for social needs, as experiments in autonomous self-management, which multiplied, both create … Continue reading
On the Greek Elections etc
The following is not meant to be an exhaustive, well researched piece of writing. Rather, these are reflections, based on impressions, more put together on the spur of the moment, responses to a variety of ideas and words floating in … Continue reading
A house of rainbow colours: the story of Fronte del Porto Occupato (Rome)
Walls divide, segregate, displace; channel according regimes of power, direct according to apparatuses of control. They mark lines of authority, frontiers of wealth, psychoses of fear. Yet they may also be breached: if rebellion is transgression, then it is defined … Continue reading →