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This is not a demonstration – Actions, constructions and revolutionary turns to save the world.
(From Take the Square/Al final de la asamblea, a celebration of two years of rebellion in spain, in the wake of 15M). In the past two years we have completely reinvented the way we try to transform the world into … Continue reading
Revolutions of desire: The Wingnut Anarchist Collective
There is no desire for revolution, as there is no desire for power, desire to oppress or to be oppressed; but revolution, oppression, power, etc., are the actual component lines of a given assemblage. Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues II David Graeber … Continue reading
Lines of tension, lines of flight: the revolution of occupations
Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of revolution …, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible … Everything is played in uncertain games, ‘front to front, back to back, back … Continue reading
Towards a real assembly-ism
From the working group of 15M-Madrid, Política a Largo Plazo, comes the following reflection on the assembly as a space for horizontally and freely creating human community, a reflection on what is here is called asamblearismo. The translation from the … Continue reading
Radical politics amid hurricanes
Silvia Frederici, in the last number of Tidal, contends that “debt has become a key means of capital accumulation”. Having spread ever more broadly throughout the world, it has become the most “general category through which exploitation is organized”. The … Continue reading
From film of denunciation to the revolutionary use of film
R. Magritte, La trahison des images Le monde est déjà filmé. Il s’agit maintenant de le transformer Guy Debord Contemporary social movements have contributed to and have been sustained by a proliferation of media production, often described as alternative, in … Continue reading
Weaving protest into revolution
It is only when grounded in the ubiquity of resistance that revolution becomes a possibility. John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power As the tides of protest swell and subside, in these our interesting times of rebellion, their limits … Continue reading
A revolution freed
On March the 5th, Hugo Chavez died. Our silence at his passing was motivated in large part by our ignorance of the complexity of the Revolución Bolivariana and of Venezuela. Equally, we were silenced by the torrent of media attention … Continue reading
A timeless spring
(Image from the Ecole de la Montagne Rouge) The Québec student movement of the printemps érable of 2012, which began as a protest movement against proposed increases in university tuition fees, very quickly became a much broader social movement that in its … Continue reading
Anarchy and 15M
As 15M approaches its second anniversary, it is an occasion to reflect on its young and yet rich history, on its present, and possible future. Far be it from us however to suggest any kind of omniscient or final judgement … Continue reading →