Category Archives: Commentary

It is necessary to create autonomous spaces: Carlos Taibo

The Ego of autonomy is not the absolute self, the monad cleaning and polishing its external-internal surface in order to eliminate the impurities resulting from contact with others.  It is the active and lucid agency that constantly reorganzes its contents, … Continue reading

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After Syntagma: Stavros Stavrides

What follows is a partial translation of a presentation made by the architect and greek activist Stavros Stavrides in CSO Patio Marvillas of Madrid, the transcription of which done by Eva García y Beatriz García of the Observatorio Metropolitano de … Continue reading

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We are the crises: John Holloway

In our interesting times of rebellion, with protests across north africa, europe, the americas, the work of John Holloway provides us with conceptual tools that help to understand and act in our present …

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Gezi/Taksim: From the margins

Il y a une figure universelle de la conscience minoritaire, comme devenir de tout le monde, et c’est ce devenir qui est création.  Ce n’est pas en acquérant la majorité qu’on y atteint.  Cette figure, c’est précisément la variation continue, … Continue reading

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Gezi Park/Taksim Square: The festival of revolution

Le premier geste pour que quelque chose puisse surgir au milieu de la métropole, pour que s’ouvrent d’autres possibles, c’est d’arrêter son perpetuum mobile. comité invisible, L’insurrection que vient The faces and voices of Gezi Park of Taksim Square, Istanbul, … Continue reading

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Street Politics 101: Returning to Québec’s Le Printemps Érable

From the very remarkable anarchist film collective, subMedia.tv a portrait of Quebec's 2012 student movement …

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Vio.Me: Self-Organization in Greece

An excellent video report from Global Uprisings and Brandon Jourdan of the Vio.Me. factory occupation in greece.  Any revolutionary movement will inevitably confront the issue of production.  In radically changing capitalist society, how can the basic needs of people be … Continue reading

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The chimera of revolution: Travels through 15M’s spain

Chimaera … breathed awful fire, Three-headed, frightening, huge, swift-footed, strong, One head a bright-eyed lion’s, one a goats, The third a snake’s, a mighty dragon-head. Hesiod, Theogony Monsters have always defined the limits of community … Donna Haraway, A Manifesto … Continue reading

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Year 02: 15M’s spain

For the so many whom 15M has brought forth, for the enormous passion and creativity that this movement has engendered, for the extraordinary generosity and love that so many show as they build together, for its beauty and its freedom, … Continue reading

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Interventions in spain: the commons

Spain, in the of 15M, has become a laboratory of radical political thought and practice.  Debates and gestures resonate in multiple and proliferating communites of resistance and autonomy.  What follows is but one example, but an example rich in consequences: … Continue reading

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