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Creating through resistance: The ZAD in Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Since the winter of 2012-2013, the Notre-Dame-des Landes resistance/okupation against the french government’s plan to build an airport in the midst of agricultural and forest lands has met with ongoing opposition. We chronicle here some of that continuing creativity, since … Continue reading
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Tagged france, Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Okupations, revolution
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Tomás Ibáñez: “One never takes power, it is power which takes us”
On the occasion of the publication of Tomás Ibáñez’ book, Anarquismo es movimiento, we republish below, in translation, an interview with him that appeared in La Marea (29/06/2014): a reading of contemporary anarchism.
The dark tidings of Uri Gordon
Published in 2009 as part of an anthology of contemporary anarchism, Uri Gordon’s essay, “Dark tidings: Anarchist politics in the age of collapse”, remains an important reflection on anarchist theory and practice, which we endeavour to share and diffuse in … Continue reading
Rebellion/revolution as war
(All art by Bilal Berreni – Zoo Project) Our movement … is in the first place a negative movement, a movement against identity. It is we who de-compose, we are the wreckers. It is capital which constantly seeks to compose, … Continue reading
Paths to utopia in andalusia: Marinaleda
The Left must position itself as much to the Left as possible and therefore it has the need to aspire to Utopia, understood not as a chimera, but as the right that people have to dream, and by means of … Continue reading
Critical engagements in spain’s 15th of May movement
Spain’s 15th of May movement, born in 2011, is one of the most significant political and social movements of our time. Its promise has been great. But also its weaknesses, weaknesses which those quick to condemn movements in the name … Continue reading
Abaixo a copa capitalista: The games of brazil’s world cup
The metropolis is a terrain of constant low intensity conflict, of which the occupation of Basra, Mogadishu, or Nablus are the culmination points. The city, for soldiers, was for a long time a place to be avoided, or perhaps to … Continue reading
In praise of a riot: The Stonewall Inn insurrection, 1969
(The Battle of Stonewall, Sandow Birk) (In memory of all of the gays, lesbians, bisexuals, trans, queens, sex workers and hustlers, blacks, hispanics, whites, employed and unemployed, who resisted on the 28th of June of 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, … Continue reading
Rebel neighbourhoods: Carabanchel, Madrid
There are cities where particular neighbourhoods guard a memory of past disobedience and rebellion. They were in the past often referred to as working-class neighbourhoods, or quartiers populaires, to employ the French expression. They recall that past however not as … Continue reading
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Tagged Carabanchel, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, rebellion, revolution, spain
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Anti-capitalist economies in post-15M spain: Mondragón, Cooperatives and Okupations
… I am bound to suppose that the realisation of Socialism will tend to make men happy. What is it then that makes people happy? Free and full life and the consciousness of life. William Morris In spain, there are … Continue reading →